Functions

Dialogue contains a bunch of functions to help you use dialogue in any way you need.

If you import the Tales Component, you can view the list of functions supported.

Begin Dialogue

The most used function in the entire dialogue system.

This function tells Narrative to start the specified dialogue. It will return a bool if it can start or if it has failed for any reason (replication issues, no conditions passed)

Inputs

Name	Type	Description
In	exec
Target	UTalesComponent	The Narrative component to try and start the dialogue on.
Dialogue	TSubclassOf<UDialogue>	The dialogue class that you want to play.
StartFromID	FName	The ID the dialogue should start playing from, if empty will play from root node.
Priority	int32	The priority we want to play this dialogue at. -1 means use the dialogues default priority.

Output

Name	Type	Description
Out	exec
Return Value	bool	Whether or not the dialogue has began.

Has Dialogue Available

Whilst creating dialogue it is common to have dialogue assets that are not used anymore due to conditions blocking all routes - and this is okay.

Sometimes you want to check if a dialogue can be started before calling BeginDialogue or to fulfil some condition.

The HasDialogueAvailable function executes the initialize method of the provided dialogue and does not start the dialogue.

This will return you a bool to whether calling BeginDialogue would successfully enter the dialogue.

Inputs

Name	Type	Description
Target	UTalesComponent	The Narrative component to try and start the dialogue on.
Dialogue	TSubclassOf<UDialogue>	The dialogue class that you want to play.
StartFromID	FName	The ID the dialogue should start playing from, if empty will play from root node.
Priority	int32	The priority we want to play this dialogue at. -1 means use the dialogues default priority.

Output

Name	Type	Description
Return Value	bool	Whether or not the dialogue can begin.