Non-Objective NPC needs to disappear!

runis12

So in my quest, a non-objective NPC (appears outside of the Story board) appears when you pick up an item. The NPC attacks you, then runs away. There is no "This Component Complete" to make her disappear, so I've been making her disappear at Dialogue Prompt Reached with her own dialogue. : / How can I refine this so that she doesn't cut off her last piece of dialogue? heh Foundry newb.

nezroy123

Give her a blank dialogue after her final regular dialogue and have the disappear trigger off that one instead. That way the player can read the final "real" dialogue, and the blank one will be skipped/disappear along with the npc.

thehuntress

Would this work if I wanted an NPC to yell at the PC "Intruder!", run to a door and then disappear?

runis12

nezroy123 wrote: »

Give her a blank dialogue after her final regular dialogue and have the disappear trigger off that one instead. That way the player can read the final "real" dialogue, and the blank one will be skipped/disappear along with the npc.

Yeah, I've got this going on. Just seems to kill the mood of the dialogue. ^^; With the black window flickering in and out quickly. BAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

runis12

Anyone else? ;p

zoiks100

You could use a checkpoint, have the npc move away through the checkpoint so if the pc follows, the npc disappears.

Or you could have an invisible clickable, placed on top of the npc, be the contact instead of the npc. That way you can use component complete for when the dialogue finishes. Only real downside to this is that you can't have the npc do different animations during the dialogue without having them disappear and reappear to change the emote.