Two players talking to each other

kloot

Let's say we switch to Player A and walk the player into Scene X. We now switch to Player B and walk him into the same scene. Now let's say we now want these characters talk to each other. The current player can always be made to speak having the Speech action set to IsPlayerAction, but how would we specify that an NPC which wasn't in the scene during build time, should be able to speak in run time?

Thanks!

ChrisIceBox

Use the Player: Check Action to determine which character you are, and therefore which NPC they'll be speaking to.

kloot

The problem is that I don't have a reference to any of those players/NPCs in design time (since neither player/NPC will be in the scene until they choose to enter the scene in-game).

So how can I assign a speaker NPC in the editor when the NPC isn't available untill it's associated player have stepped into the scene (and we have switched to a new player)?

Hope this makes sense

ChrisIceBox

But you know yourself which NPC it is, right? If you use a Player: Check Action, you can decide which NPC should be speaking.

Assigning an NPC prefab into the Speaker field will cause the local instance of that character to speak, if present in the scene, and if he has a Constant ID value with Retain in prefab? checked.

kloot

Aha, I did not know you could assign a prefab there, that's great man!