A very common use of dialogues is when speaking to an NPC. There are many ways of achieving this, but here you have a simple one to follow step by step:
- Install Dialogic 1.1 from the asset lib
- Enable Dialogic and restart the project
- Create a new timeline called
timeline-1
Let's create a character and add basic movement to it:
- Make the KinematicBody2D
- Rename it to
Player - Add a Sprite to it
- Add a collision shape
- Add a script:
extends KinematicBody2D export (int) var speed = 200 var velocity = Vector2() func get_input(): velocity = Vector2() if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_right"): velocity.x += 1 if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_left"): velocity.x -= 1 if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_down"): velocity.y += 1 if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_up"): velocity.y -= 1 velocity = velocity.normalized() * speed func _physics_process(delta): get_input() velocity = move_and_slide(velocity)- Create an Area2D node
- Rename it to
NPC - Add a collision shape with the range for your dialog to be able to trigger
- Add a Sprite
- Add an indicator for when the Player can talk with the NPC
- Add a script to the Area2D node
extends Area2D var active = false func _ready(): connect("body_entered", self, '_on_NPC_body_entered') connect("body_exited", self, '_on_NPC_body_exited') func _process(delta): $QuestionMark.visible = active func _input(event): if get_node_or_null('DialogNode') == null: if event.is_action_pressed("ui_accept") and active: get_tree().paused = true var dialog = Dialogic.start('timeline-1') dialog.pause_mode = Node.PAUSE_MODE_PROCESS dialog.connect('timeline_end', self, 'unpause') add_child(dialog) func unpause(timeline_name): get_tree().paused = false func _on_NPC_body_entered(body): if body.name == 'Player': active = true func _on_NPC_body_exited(body): if body.name == 'Player': active = false And that's it!