How should I trigger Dialogic?

[SylkieGamer]

I'm trying out a couple different addons, and I would like to be able to trigger the dialogue I create in dialogic, with the interaction system in Cogito but I'm not sure how....

I've been playing around with the Readable component since it captures player input while you're reading it but... I can read the code behind it, and understand what it's saying, but I have no idea how to adapt this, or if there's a better way?

[Phazorknight]

Hi and welcome to using Cogito.

I haven't used Dialogic yet, but took a very quick glimpse at their docs.

In terms of how to trigger your dialogue with Cogito, I'd prob recommend looking at DialogueNodesInteraction.gd
That one was made to work with DialogueNodes, but using it as basis, could probably be adapted to work with Dialogic.
I'd start renaming this to DialogicInteraction.gd

The important part is to keep a reference to your player_interaction_component in this script, so you can read and control the player inputs (like resuming control when exiting out of the dialogue)

exports / onready:
Here you'd have to set your references to your Dialogic dialoge.
(Looks like they're called timelines so maybe something like?
@export var dialogic_timeline : DialogicTimeline

func start_dialogue()
Here you'd want to start your dialogue, so something like:
Dialogic.start(dialogic_timeline)

Depending on how dialogic's input work, you probably want to hook up the signal that Dialogic sends when the timeline is stopped/finished, to then call stop_dialogue() so your player regains control.

Dialogic.timeline_ended.connect(stop_dialogue)

Third, if you want your player to be able to abort your dialogue, I recommend hooking up Dialogics function to the signal that gets emitted when the player presses the menu key (ESC on Keyboard, START on gamepad):
player_interaction_component.get_parent().menu_pressed.connect( <INSERT FUNCTION HERE THAT STOPS DIALOGIC> )

Next I'd look at the stop dialogue function:

func stop_dialogue():
This function will get called when your dialogue ends, so I assume at this point, your dialogic UI is already closed/handled.
You want to now make sure the player_interaction_component knows your interface is closed, by using this line:
player_interaction_component.get_parent().toggled_interface.emit(false)

That should be all to return to regular gameplay.

To reiterate: I haven't tested this at all, but this is how I'd start testing the implementation.

[SylkieGamer]

I really like that, and I can read it, but it's been so long since I've really done any kind of coding.... I still don't understand how to implement it. I think I'm going to focus on art and try to use a work around I've used in the past. Use the Transition zone to load a scene that's only purpose is to load the dialogic script and then when the dialogue is finished transition to the actual playable level.

[Phazorknight]

Hey @SylkieGamer ,

I've just pushed an update: cb04991

This adds a new interaction component that will let you trigger Dialogic timelines called DialogicInteraction

• You'll need to have Dialogic installed in your project
• Open DialogicInteraction.gd
• Uncomment every line under the dotted line ....... ( Ctrl + K)
• Save and that's it!

Now just attach DialogicInteraction.tscn to any interactive Cogito object, and assign your dialogic timeline to it in the inspector.

This is what it looks like in action:

CogitoDialogicTest.mp4