I am glad it was helpful! I am using Wild Night Green BT Theme.

Glad you were able to figure it out.

Thanks for the feedback! I am always trying to improve my content. For context this was my first video after taking a long break and had limited time to edit/make the video. And didn't want to get stuck in a perfectionist loop and never post it.

Thank you for the kind words. Good luck with your Godot projects!

It comes down to your preference honestly, I was able to find more tutorials and was able to get into Aseprite faster. Also, you can already get Aseprite from the repo and compile it yourself as a free option. Or just buy it. :)

I use aseprite cause it got indexed colors. Which is great cause I work with limited color pallets

Glad you liked it

UI tutorial is on the roadmap, I have a save & load video on the channel, that i made for Godot 3x., that ill likely update in the future but might help you if you need it today.

Thanks for the support! I agree, maybe with the changes in 4.3 there can be a real nice integration to streamline that experience.

Thank you! Stay Awesome!

So, I think state charts are interesting, but to me they seem to be the same, and its more about simplifying state management, don't over complicate it, and give devs good awareness of state flow. and if possible visualize it. Thanks ! appreciate checking out other systems.

so the dialogue runs through like a for loop, it doesn't really pause in that way. especially if you have multiple contacts in a single timeline or you are swapping out timelines. The best thing I have found is to have conditional flags, each time you trigger a conversation you would update the variable to match what dialogue they would see (0 = intro, 1 = ask quest, 2 = wait for quest status, 3 = turn in, 4 = post turn in) etc. I hope this helps you!

@@HexBlit I see thank you, yeah I have multiple timelines, really unfortunate that it's so hard to find proper info online but such is life I suppose

Thanks for the support! I have added timestamps to the video! :) I wanted to have a nice demo but ran out of time. I will have a follow up video on customized styles in the future.

@@HexBlit Your fine! I understand about running out of time. Every time I think about starting a channel, I remember how much you all have to put into videos, and it's like... maybe not.

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@@HexBlit xD

I am glad it helped! I am def working on many more tutorials.

looks to be Obsidian

it's Obsidian, w/ Excalidraw plugin enabled.

Yeah don't see why not :)

Can u make tutorial

does it still run? likely you dont have a a character set in the timeline for the text, as it doesn't know what style to apply.

@@HexBlit It was an issue with the AutoLoad not working properly, saying there's a name conflict with an already pre-existing yet non-existing DialogicGameManager file, and my only fix was to remove the plugin, delete the dialogic files from the asset tree, close the Godot Project, delete the .godot folder (not the file) inside the project files, reopen the Godot Project, import the plugin, enable and then restart Godot. It's a frustrating solution and a ridiculous amount of steps, but that's how I fixed it. Deleting the .godot folder was the only thing that helped in this odd scenario. Just deleting all the Dialogic files in the asset tree doesn't help without making Godot rebuild the .godot folder.

wow, glad you were able to get it resolved.

Thanks, hope it helps

Glad it was helpful!

I am glad that it helped you. I have a lot of planned content I am working on. You can expect a lot more videos soon!

I will make more as I progress in my experience with it. :)

I think its more that its a rewrite and a 2.0 version. They have some issues reported and want to make it even more stable. I think they have more features they want to implement before getting out of alpha. github.com/dialogic-godot/dialogic/releases feel free to ask the creators on their github page as well.

I am not sure. I haven't tested porting but its worth asking in a PR question github.com/dialogic-godot/dialogic/pulls

I will totally be making more on Dialogic as I progress in my experience and likely do a "What i've learned version"

In mine it shows up but the event handler still works as I expected and the character can move around with dialogue open. Everything is customizable, you should check out the floating dialogue template, that might help you :)

@@HexBlit Yeah, but is there a way to advance dialogues on their own without waiting for the user input without the user being able to space through the dialogue (I use space to jump) or skip the dialogue in any other way?

Looks like you can via the auto advance feature, docs.dialogic.pro/auto-advance.html check it out and if you run into an issue can submit a PR.

Thanks working on more content ☺️

The man himself

Thank you so much 😊

The image can be any image, if you want to show the node2D you would need to customize the scene for the dialogue box and likely make a copy of the gdscipt to change the image reference to be scene or animation. I hope that helps 😃

You could extend the dialogue and make a quest version, then you could either have a timeline per quest or a mega timeline using vars to know what quest text event to show.

@@HexBlit I downloaded a plugin for my project simply called "Quest System" it may work with it, perhaps? Are you familiar with this plugin?

I am not familiar with it, but I'll add it to the list of add-ons to review. You might be able to use it with the customized dialogic workflow, but you might need to experiment and find out :)

you might need to remove the addon and the resource file that is in root, and remove the entry in the godot file for plugins and then reinstall, my assumption is you are using 4.2.1 / 4.2.2. I hope this helps.

It's not working, sorry I'm quite new to Godot 😅

Hmm As I install it to godot, it says 'Failed to load script : (some script name)' A bunch of times...

I recommend posting the issue on their github, github.com/jotson/ridiculous_coding/issues you can upload the project and describe the issue better than in a youtube comment :) I hope this helps.

Absolutely

Considering Ren'py has years of updates I bet it has more features and stability at the moment. But I think over time it will be able to be a serious contender.

Dedicated visual novel engines will likely be better for traditional visual novels. But godot gives you the power to implement more complex gameplay features.

Ye why not?

Yep. It's just putting an interface layer in front of everything else.

absolutely, as others said, it renders its nodes in a Dialogic Node root in the scene tree no matter the project type.

Glad you liked it!

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I'm glad you like it

It's not super clean but you could Dialogic.VAR.awesomeVarCopy = autoloadedClass.awesomeVar Or have a signal event that sets the dialogic var equal to the variable you are using. It is not awesome but I've been thinking about it too.

I might create a proposal to track external vars so they show in the timeline/ conditions via Dialogic.VAR.external(<external_var>)

@@HexBlit That would be a brilliant improvement - thanks for the ideas for approaches to setting the values into Dialogic!