Conversation System

[hawk66de]

Has anybody already played with the conversation system (eg. kbAddTopic script commands) or is there already any documentation, which I've missed?

[Jezuro]

You might want to check the comref.

The summary is:

kbAddTopic adds a topic (duh!) to a person with the .bikb (list of sentences), .fsm (conversation flow script for the AI) and/or .sqf (conversation flow script for a player) files as its parameters
kbTell makes the person actually say a specific sentence (defined in the .bikb file)

Conversation flow scripts are executed every time a sentence was said to the person with passed parameters being:

_sentenceId: the sentence as defined in the .bikb file
_topic: topic name registered via kbAddTopic
_this: the person that was talked to (receiver)
_from: the person that talked to the receiver and triggered the script

[hawk66de]

Thanks Jezuro, I had a look at the wiki/comref but without examples it's a little tough to understand it .

Will try it out.

[Serclaes]

Just unpack the campaign in yourarmafolder\Addons\missions
There are a lot of "examples". Sure you have to figure out how they work together but thats easy

[hawk66de]

works well for NPC conversations, but what do I have to do if I wanna add a topic for the player?

Example:

c1 kbAddtopic["myTest", "myTest.bikb", "", "myTest.sqf"]; // works
sleep 2;
 c1 kbTell [m1, "myTest", "myTest_A_0"];  // works fine

player kbAddtopic["myTest", "myTest.bikb", "", "myTest.sqf"]; // and now??

My thought was that I (as the player) could use the sentence(s) somehow to communicate to NPCs (similar to the standard 'Greetings' conversation'), now.

What's the flow here? Thx

[Jezuro]

For the player you need to use call for the script.

player kbAddtopic["myTest", "myTest.bikb", "", {call compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "myTest.sqf"}];

[hawk66de]

@Jezuro

I need your help again:

I did some further tests, here the code:

init.sqf

hint "KbTopic";
c1 kbAddtopic["myTest", "myTest.bikb", "", {call compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "myTest.sqf"}];
player kbAddtopic["myTest", "myTest.bikb", "", {call compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "myTest.sqf"}];

c1 doMove (position receiver);
sleep 10;
c1 lookAt receiver;
sleep 3;
c1 kbTell [receiver, "myTest", "myTest_A_0"];

event handler mytest.sqf:

hint format ["From:%1, Topic:%2, Sentence:%3", _from, _topic, _sentenceId];

When I run the testmission I get immediately the 'kbTell' event handled if I -as the player- approach any unit (_sentenceid is initial).
And I do not see my Topic in any menu...do I have to add it manually somehow?

And what is also strange is that the event handler for
<<<c1 kbTell [m1, "myTest", "myTest_A_0"]; >>>
is not triggered although c1 speaks to receiver

Probably I missed sth completely here

[hawk66de]

any update on this issue? thx.

[Rommel]

Nevermind I think I found my solution, which when finished I will post for others.

[Ghost]

in Ofpec found this topic that might be of use http://www.ofpec.com/forum/index.php?topic=29905.0