Dialogic interact component doesn't pause

[zivivi32]

Hello,
I was not sure how to title this discussion but I noticed that when I use the dialogic component script provided, the game pauses when the dialogues are running which is amazing. But when I call the interact function from another script, the game does not seem to pause but the dialogues runs anyways.

Basically, I'm trying to make a small script that run after some kind of event like a keypad unlocked, running Dialogic the same way you do, with pausing the game and everything. is there something I'm missing? I'm running this as code:

dialogic_interaction.interact(player_interaction)

I feel like I'm missing something

[zivivi32]

And I tried with other interact components, the same issue seems to be happening. So I'm definitely missing something, but I don't see it in the documentations

[Phazorknight]

Hey @zivivi32 ,

The easiest way for you to proceed would be to just use the included DialogicInteraction component, but not with a interaction but instead calling it with a signal. Do as follows:

1. Add the DialogicInteraction component to your object that you want to attach the Dialogic dialogue to.
2. In it's inspector properties, make sure that "is disabled" is on . This prevents this from showing up as an interaction when the player hovers over the object it's a child of.
3. Now you can just use any signal to call the start_dialogue() function of that component and it will work as expected. For example you can use the correct_code_entered signal of a keypad to start a dialogue this way.

With "the game pauses", I assume you mean that the player movement stops and instead the mouse appears?
I call this the "interface mode", basically it's when the default input of moving around stops and the player instead interacts with a user interface like a readable, a keypad, or in this case the dialogue UI.

To get this to work yourself in code, you need to get the player to emit the toggled_interface(bool) signal ( true if an interface is open, false if it's closed)
In the DialogicInteraction component, I emit this as true when the dialogue starts, and then make sure Dialogic's timeline_ended signal is hooked up to also make the player emit the toggled_interface signal as false.

[zivivi32]

Yeah! It was indeed the toggle interface I was looking for.

I just tried what you suggested, and it worked! Thanks for replying so fast man!