Multiple dialogue endings

kelath · May 2013

Good day to everyone,
I am creating my first foundry quest and I cant figure out one problem. I will try to present it in most basic situations of all. You are speaking with an NPC and you have two dialogue choices [Good day to you] and [DIE YOU PEASANT]. Now obviously first dialogue choice will end with everyone being happy and the quest can go on, but how to do it that if player will choose the second option, that either the NPC or encounter will spawn, become hostile towards player and combat will occur? Thank you for your help.

yospeck · May 2013

You would have to set up on the NPC that he disappears when the dialogue [Die you peasant] is reached, and that an encounter (dressed the same as the NPC) appears when the same dialogue is reached. So when the person clicks that option the NPC disappears and reappears as an aggressive mob.

kelath · May 2013

And how can I do that?

luther8 · May 2013

Its easy to do multi dialog if its not story related, the story is linear so it can only follow one path but if you add normal npcs you can do contact then advanced dialog, then spawn or despawn that npc when certain dialogs are triggered but again it can't be story based but you might be able to trick the person playing into thinking it is.

kelath · May 2013

That is what I basically planned on doing the quest object would remain the same say...open the locked door and move into next room. And either the door would unlock itself by resolving the dialogue peacefully, or you would have to open it by key that would drop from a enemy that would spawn when player would resolve the dialogue in a hostile manner. Is this how you meant it?

luther8 · May 2013

You can use multiple triggers for a single object so it should be vary do able.

kelath · May 2013

Could you recommend to me tutorial that would cover specifically usage of triggers in this situation please?

luther8 · May 2013

sorry too tired to load the foundry up, might crash for some sleep right now but i learned everything from experimenting, load up a dummy map with a little room and a door and start messing around, if you can't figure it out by tomorrow i might take a look at it and wright up a how to.

kelath · May 2013

Alright, its a deal, I put several hours into my first project already, and I kept postponing this one dialogue with multiple options, but now that I am doing my first test runs I want to make it work, I will try to fiddle with it and thanks for help.

rathenau15 · May 2013

This is actually one I'm having trouble with myself. Let's say I want a simple dialogue with the outcome of:

1- The NPC leaves.
2- The NPC turns hostile and you'll need to fight it.

The problem I'm having here is that you can only select one prompt for a non-story dialogue NPC to disappear. (unlike the story ones where you can set them to disappear when their objective is completed) Multiple prompts do not work as both of them need to be fulfilled in order to make it work.

Currently I'm using a blank dialogue box at the very end to de-spawn the NPC, but this annoys me to no end. Anyone else knows of a better solution?

kelath · May 2013

I tried to fiddle with it but still no solution found unfortunately.

coanunn · May 2013

rathenau15 wrote: »

This is actually one I'm having trouble with myself. Let's say I want a simple dialogue with the outcome of:

1- The NPC leaves.
2- The NPC turns hostile and you'll need to fight it.

The problem I'm having here is that you can only select one prompt for a non-story dialogue NPC to disappear. (unlike the story ones where you can set them to disappear when their objective is completed) Multiple prompts do not work as both of them need to be fulfilled in order to make it work.

Currently I'm using a blank dialogue box at the very end to de-spawn the NPC, but this annoys me to no end. Anyone else knows of a better solution?

You could try "This component completes". Any dialog should trigger that which would then despawn your NPC. I believe there is also a "when component begins" which you could set to the mob encounter you are spawning off the dialog. I have a lot of these triggers at use in my story but nothing where the player can be hostile to the NPC so all of this is assumption.

One thing I can say for certain, no matter what it will take more steps than it seems when you first map it out. That has consistently been my experience with it. I'll map something out and think it will take 4 steps and it ends up taking 6. You just have to keep going until you are satisfied with the result.

juravian · May 2013

With non-story conversations, it's not the dialog ending that triggers the desired response as it is with storyline dialog.

With non-storyline dialog, you have to edit the NPC itself, and tell it to do what you want when "Dialog Prompt is reached"

Create the original NPC and edit it. Using Disappear When. set it to disappear when "This Component Complete"

Then you create a copy of the NPC that looks the same, and an encounter with the skin of that NPC.

1- The NPC leaves. -Have the exact copy of the NPC set to appear when this "Dialog Prompt is Reached", and set to "One Way Patrol" to walk away.

2- The NPC turns hostile and you'll need to fight it. - Set the encounter to appear, when this "Dialog Prompt is Reached".

Hope that makes sense.

Edit: to try and make it clearer.

Multiple dialogue endings

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