Feature request: Scripted Interactions ala PoE

Dark_Ansem

For those who don't know what I am talking about: here.

Basically, I believe this tool would help immensely in NWN narration.

I am aware that dialogue boxes already allow this, to an extent. However, they are somewhat immersion-breaking.

Dark_Ansem

For those who don t how how this could work...

https://youtu.be/AePlmBYV1zI minute 52

Zwerkules

If it were possible to customize the GUI, this could easily be done by the community.

Dark_Ansem

Zwerkules said:

If it were possible to customize the GUI, this could easily be done by the community.

Would it? How?
Is customising the GUI already a Trello Card?

dafena

Dark_Ansem said:

Zwerkules said:

If it were possible to customize the GUI, this could easily be done by the community.

Would it? How?
Is customising the GUI already a Trello Card?

https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/67757/the-ui-refactor-investigation-card-discussion#latest

ShadowM

Trello board vote LINK

PaddyMaxson

Dark_Ansem said:

Zwerkules said:

If it were possible to customize the GUI, this could easily be done by the community.

Would it? How?
Is customising the GUI already a Trello Card?

If you can customise the UI to make the whole screen a dialogue window with a nice background then this is fairly simple conversation scripting.
It's just literally:
*IF PC Int/Strength/Whatever is this high, show this option*
*If PC Inventory contains *hammer and chisel* show this option*
Or even
*Show this option, when it's selected do a strenght check, if PC strength is too low then *teleport player to new area because they fell down a hole**

I mean you can do it as is, but you'd just have your PC be in conversation with an invisible NPC while it happens.

Dark_Ansem

PaddyMaxson said:

Dark_Ansem said:

Zwerkules said:

If it were possible to customize the GUI, this could easily be done by the community.

Would it? How?
Is customising the GUI already a Trello Card?

If you can customise the UI to make the whole screen a dialogue window with a nice background then this is fairly simple conversation scripting.
It's just literally:
*IF PC Int/Strength/Whatever is this high, show this option*
*If PC Inventory contains *hammer and chisel* show this option*
Or even
*Show this option, when it's selected do a strenght check, if PC strength is too low then *teleport player to new area because they fell down a hole**

I mean you can do it as is, but you'd just have your PC be in conversation with an invisible NPC while it happens.

looks horrible, too.

PaddyMaxson

Dark_Ansem said:

PaddyMaxson said:

Dark_Ansem said:

Zwerkules said:

If it were possible to customize the GUI, this could easily be done by the community.

Would it? How?
Is customising the GUI already a Trello Card?

If you can customise the UI to make the whole screen a dialogue window with a nice background then this is fairly simple conversation scripting.
It's just literally:
*IF PC Int/Strength/Whatever is this high, show this option*
*If PC Inventory contains *hammer and chisel* show this option*
Or even
*Show this option, when it's selected do a strenght check, if PC strength is too low then *teleport player to new area because they fell down a hole**

I mean you can do it as is, but you'd just have your PC be in conversation with an invisible NPC while it happens.

looks horrible, too.

Well, I mean all of the above is in script...or did you mean that making it a conversation looked horrible?

I don't disagree with that, so making them become fullscreen conversations would be great.

Dark_Ansem

PaddyMaxson said:

Dark_Ansem said:

PaddyMaxson said:

Dark_Ansem said:

Zwerkules said:

If it were possible to customize the GUI, this could easily be done by the community.

Would it? How?
Is customising the GUI already a Trello Card?

If you can customise the UI to make the whole screen a dialogue window with a nice background then this is fairly simple conversation scripting.
It's just literally:
*IF PC Int/Strength/Whatever is this high, show this option*
*If PC Inventory contains *hammer and chisel* show this option*
Or even
*Show this option, when it's selected do a strenght check, if PC strength is too low then *teleport player to new area because they fell down a hole**

I mean you can do it as is, but you'd just have your PC be in conversation with an invisible NPC while it happens.

looks horrible, too.

Well, I mean all of the above is in script...or did you mean that making it a conversation looked horrible?

I don't disagree with that, so making them become fullscreen conversations would be great.

I'm sorry, I mean that the standard conversation window, for the purpose of the thread, is dreadful. A lot better would be this sort of scripted frame, with text appearing like a written page.