I can’t select any of my characters for my timeline function.

Describe the bug To be honest I don’t know enough about coding to identify the bug. But everytime I can’t select any of my characters even when I can see them on the drop down menu. I’ve restarted the program and even started new projects. Please help!

The problem

Describe the bug When running an exported version of my game, dialogic crashes it with this error message:

SCRIPT ERROR: Invalid call. Nonexistent function 'get_value' in base 'Nil'.
          at: _process (res://addons/dialogic/Nodes/DialogNode.gdc:424)

This doesn't happen when running from the editor.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: I don't know how I did it so I can't show you how.

Expected behavior I expect dialogue to show up when I start my game

Screenshots

System (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 11
• Godot Version: 3.4.3
• Dialogic Version: 1.4.1

Solutions

I don't know

Workaround

A delay before adding dialogic as a child, this didn't work

Possible fixes I have no idea :/

The problem

Describe the bug when I try to run a timeline, i get these errors: "invalid get index 'value' (on base: dictionary) " "[Dialogic] Error opening default definitions file: 12"

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to definitions > add value

2. make a timeline with the value, for example i made a timeline called "ababa" with these events

3. try to run the timeline by adding it as a child of Node2D, like so:

4. the "hello" shows up fine, but then this error happens:

5. close the game, go back to the editor. in addition to the above error the new value doesnt show up in the dropdown anymore

this error pops up when i click on the value

Expected behavior I expect to see my value in the dialog or at least for the game to not crash i guess

System (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 10
• Godot Version: 3.3.2.stable
• Dialogic Version: 1.2.4

Solutions

Workaround

What you tried to get the feature working: I tried to delete the addon and all the files and install it again and it didnt work

Possible fixes

Any idea to fix the issue or a link to the line of code that might be the cause for this problem

(Godot 3.5.1 + Dialogic 1.4.5)

Problem = Can't add variables to published game with dialogic saves.

Description... I am prototype testing my visual novel game.
I am running a test scenario on which I am updating my visual novel after it has been published and out in the wild.

While using the save feature of dialogic, I am having problems adding new variables to saved games in my early testing.

Reproduce...

1. MacOS
2. Export Project
3. Update game by adding variables, via dialogic IDE add event "Set Value", "myNewVar", to itself plus "1"
4. Export Game.Pck
5. Go to Game DMG in HardDrive, Open DMG and move to a folder. Right clicking to "Open Package Contents"
6. Game>Contents>Resource>Game.pck
7. Replace Game.pck

Say, when a totally new variable called “myNewVar” is introduced after loading a saved game (that did not have “myNewVar” prior), and on continuing, the game progresses that “myNewVar” point, and adds “1” to itself, the game crashes.

Updating character art and updating timelines seems to work just fine…

But would love to have a way to update / adding new variables to the dialogic .json files and add variable content to deployed games. This would be also great in the new Godot 4 Dialogic 2 branch.

I Have updated the voice support implementation from my previous pull after suggestions from @Jowan-Spooner. This feature was also suggested on Issue 401

This will allow users to play character voices during a text/question event event.

How to use -Enable voices from settings. -You will be able to load audio files depending on your text event

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Not all games need to have a name label, and it's weird that there's no option to completely disable them.

Describe the solution you'd like A check box that would let me remove the name label entirely from a theme.

Describe alternatives you've considered I set the offset to be off screen, but it's still loaded.

So, the timeline editor is one of my favourite features, but I've chatted and read a lot of feedback on what the writers need when making text heavy games, and they all want to use a regular text editor.

Ink seems to be a pretty popular way of writing this kind of games, and the most common by far is just good ol' Ren'Py. Some even use google docs and copy-paste the text. Crazy, I know.

The rest of the people I spoke with were not using any kind of system and they were just writing it in the json/csv/script itself and not needing anything else.

I don't want to deprecate the timeline editor because I believe it is super nice to have, but instead of saving and loading that information into a json file that only a computer would want to read maybe we can come up with a way of storing that into a text file that is also human readable and editable.

I would love to keep the syntax as simple as possible without compromising the functionality of the events so I propose something like this:

[character join Max]
Max - Hello there! I'm Max and the only reason why I'm talking is because I have to fill out the screen with something
[audio play chill-music.ogg ]
[wait 2]
Max - Okay, bye!

A Text event could also be capable of parsing this kind of content, so if you want to write like this in the timeline editor you can do so. This will bring more flexibility in terms of how you write timelines specially for sections without a lot of special events.

At the moment this is a very early draft of the idea, but I wanted to write it out here so I can continue working on it and also getting feedback from anyone who might be interested.

The problem

Describe the bug I have set up two if conditions in my timeline. If a value is 0 it's supposed to change the timeline. The default value is 0 and the if condition is always skipped over.

To Reproduce

1. Create an definition with a value of 0
2. Create a timeline with an if condition for that value equaling 0
3. Run the dialogue

Expected behavior Since the value is 0 the timeline should change

Screenshots

System:

• OS: Windows 10
• Godot Version: 3.3.2 mono (not using C# for this project though)
• Dialogic Version: 1.2.4

• Dialogic version: rc_1.0, commit 853f991d8089777b9aff2607310c7251c04086da

Summary

When using Set Value node to change a variable definition, it only takes effect on the next run.

For example, in the above screenshot, if the initial value for test_value is 1 (set in the definitions tab)), then the if will be triggered, even with the Set Value node. If I check the definitions tab after the run, test_value is 0. If I run again, the if is not triggered as expected.

The bug might also come from the if node not reading the updated value, I didn't know how to test that.

The problem

What is the current behavior?

Set Value nodes updated values can only be used in subsequent runs.

What is the expected correct behavior?

Set Value nodes should update the value to be used in the current timeline, in the current run. Maybe this is the correct behavior, but if it is the case it should be documented.

Solutions

Workaround

In dialog_node.gd, event_handler function, condition branch, I added the line self.load_config_files() at the beginning of the branch to force definitions refresh. I haven't tested everything so I don't know if it breaks other stuff, but at least it fixes my issues with if statements

Possible fixes

Currently, definitions are only parsed at the beginning of the dialog. They should be kept in sync, by parsing again the definitions before using them, or by updating them after a change.

Thanks for this beautiful plugin, keep up the good work!

The problem

Text events bug out, start to copy and paste previous text aswell as person talking

Recreate

1. Create characters, and make a dialog
2. Make multiple dialogs between 2 of those characters

Expected behavior I expected it to just show me the next thing in line, instead it keeps repeating the same thing over and over again after it bugged, restarting the project making those bugs permanent and deleting any previous text.

Screenshots

System (please complete the following information):

• OS: Linux
• Godot Version: 3.3.2 stable
• Dialogic Version: 1.2.1

This has taken quite a bit of time from my day trying to work around yet I have no idea how to fix it, please help

History subsystem. Built to be flexible so it can be used in various different ways. Has two different types of histories: a full history stack of all events, and a separate history of just all read text options. Full history is meant for multiple uses including data rollback, read text is more focused for VN/RPG type use, where it typically allows for styling the text a different color or allowing for a toggle to only skip already-read text (see #1100). before saving it into the full state, it will strip the actual Event object from the timeline

I copied it's files from the Glossary event, so some of them are currently still Glossary files. I'm using this draft to document things I need to implement:

Core necessary things:

• [x] actual project settings to enable the system as a whole, whether the two separate histories are used individually, and the actual length of the full history (sometimes you don't want 100% of it and only allow a player to go back only so far back)
• [x] saving a few of the key things needed for a rollback that aren't directly in the history stack (choices made, previous variable values when they are changed, etc).
• [x] options to save expanded data from a few of the specific event types to the save file directly, if wanted. also a function to be able to reload the timelines separately and grab those events to repopulate it after loading a save, if you're not saving expanded data
• [x] an event to deliberately clear the history in a timeline (see for example DDLC's history manipulation)
• [x] an additional type on the Text event for the already_read, and a quick check if it's in the dictionary on handle_event() to set that variable. ideally , beyond that any implementaion of different behavior with that set should be on a Theme rather than directly in Dialogic, probably

A few other things will be tangentially made possible with this directly or with changes needed for making this enabled, so I'll link them as I go if I find them

The above is all the core functionality of the History subsystem itself. Then after I'll make an example History view, probably mimicing the way that Dialogic 1.x History looks for starters. But as it's own subsystem of just data, people will be able to use it and customize the actual visuals of the history however they want.

The problem

Describe the bug Found while editing and swapping between editor views and swapping between multiline dialogs.

Trailing "" backslash will display in visual editor but the following line is hidden. When testing PlayTimeline, the backslash is not shown, and the following line is not shown.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. per screenshot - add a trailing backslash on a line that isn't intended to be multiline.

Expected behavior Likely - to ignore the multiline meaning, and display the slash and the following dialog.

Screenshots

System (please complete the following information):

• OS: Win10
• Godot Version: 4 beta 10
• Dialogic Version: 2-alpha-5

Solutions

Workaround

Obviously, don't do it 😅 but accidents happen. Remove the character is the obvious fix, but it isn't displayed while previewing so its harder to find.

Possible fixes

It has the feels of a fringe regex parse issue? just checking for {Multiline}{EOL}{ ** } rather than {Multiline}{EOL}{! Command}{ ** }?

I cant add dialog as a child in Godot 4. I use this code: var dialog = "Dialogic.start(DIALOGNAME)" and "add_child(dialog)", it says this also in the documentation. This however adds the dialog always to my root, instead of the node the script is attached to. I tried to recreate this in version 3.5 but there I had no issues. In Godot 4 the dialog also runs even without the "add_child(dialog)" as opposed to the 3.5 version. Maybe im too dumb or this has to do with the DialogicDefaultScene.tscn and you have to change some stuff there?

When opening the usual Dialogic project I get this errors on the output window. I'm not sure why, because by using an external editor and searching on all the project's files, I can't find any reference to DNextIndicator.gd nor Subsystem_Text.gd/SideBar.gd capitalized like that. So I'm not sure if this is an issue with the current project or the .import files, but I can't seem to find the origin of it.

Attempt to open script 'res://addons/dialogic/Events/Text/DNextIndicator.gd' resulted in error 'File not found'. drivers/windows/file_access_windows.cpp:104 - Case mismatch opening requested file 'Subsystem_Text.gd', stored as 'subsystem_text.gd' in the filesystem. This file will not open when exported to other case-sensitive platforms. drivers/windows/file_access_windows.cpp:104 - Case mismatch opening requested file 'Subsystem_Text.gd', stored as 'subsystem_text.gd' in the filesystem. This file will not open when exported to other case-sensitive platforms. drivers/windows/file_access_windows.cpp:104 - Case mismatch opening requested file 'SideBar.gd', stored as 'sidebar.gd' in the filesystem. This file will not open when exported to other case-sensitive platforms. drivers/windows/file_access_windows.cpp:104 - Case mismatch opening requested file 'SideBar.gd', stored as 'sidebar.gd' in the filesystem. This file will not open when exported to other case-sensitive platforms.

While editing or building a specialized dialogic display scene is the way to go for complex changes, something as basic as the font used should be easier to edit then

1. Search for the DialogicDefaultScene in the file system
2. Open it
3. Search for the DialogText node
4. Open inspector
5. Search for the font options in Theme overrides
6. Change the font

The hardest thing about this is to know when to stop with what options we provide.

This request comes from a tester from discord, but I strongly agree that this should be a thing even if it's mostly for testing.

If you access a variable like "Player.Name" through Dialogic.VAR.set_variable() it will print an error, even though it is set correctly. To fix this, one if has to be changed to an elif.