Twine to Unity (Easy Branching Dialogue System)

[@matthewventures]

Entweedle changed their export format since writing this video so please refer to this code for the parsing method: pastebin.com/myyAKsq6

[@matthewventures]

New to coding and maybe a little stuck implementing this system? Here is a step-by-step breakdown of how to implement this code into your game: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmWTd5Wbqtpmh7c

[@DradthemercenaryXV]

Dude... you deserve a fuckin medal for being this much of a lifesaver. Omg. I seriously cannot believe you took the trouble to help this much

[@matthewventures]

Thank you, it means alot

[@Yagid]

9:13 XDDD "Method 'Kill All Children', which is a little violent but it gets the job done"

[@attilaramazanovickoyugoz6762]

If this video didnt exist, than i would settle with a basic question response system with my non story driven game. But this will be an excellent addition thank you so much!

[@MarxyBasement]

thank god this exists this is exactly what i wanted

[@yannickplante3122]

Thank you man, that was really useful. Simply translated this into GDScript and all works fine

[@BigBossKeruda]

hi ! interesting of your tutorial, it was really cool. please post another how to create interactive film like bandersnatch on the unity !!

[@202x2]

Thank you so much for these videos and code! Is there a license you make these available under for use in projects? I hope this makes sense I’m new to this. Any recommendations on how to give credit to you in projects?

[@matthewventures]

It's free, no license needed. You can put me in the credits screen of your game if you would like.

[@202x2]

@@matthewventures thank you!

[@TheGeekRex]

Hey there! This is a really great tool for the game I'm creating, I just have one question. Harlowe has an "if" conditional system that can show options only if you've visited other passages before, or certain variables are set. Does your code implement this system, or is that something I'll have to figure out for myself? Thanks for the guide and resources!

[@matthewventures]

You'll have to do that on your own with the tags

[@YNSGamingHD]

Hi! Well this tutorial is very useful but can you help me abit with how i add the scripts to the txt file? I just started unity and i can't figure out how to do that with my story 😑

[@matthewventures]

Here is a step-by-step guide: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmWTd5Wbqtpmh7c

[@durrium]

Hey again! How would i act on the tweedle messages in unity? Is ot even possible to link it to a quest of some sort? Thanks!

[@matthewventures]

Sure do that all in the tag system

[@durrium]

@@matthewventures Cool! Looking into it now! :D

[@matthewventures]

Awesome, basically what I would do is I just have a tag that has a certain substring for each Quest and then I read the tag when I process the new nose to determine if a certain Quest special action needs to occur

[@durrium]

@@matthewventures Thanks alot!

[@longuemire748]

Escuse me, but would you know if it is possible to introduce variables in the text for a character to receive or validate a quest and receive a reward for example (xp, gold, weapon, other quest, etc).

[@matthewventures]

Yes for sure, and the games where I've used the system I have done exactly that. Basically the tag section can be used to hold any information you would like. For example 'gold=10' could be parsed to interpret that ten gold should be given to the player.

[@longuemire748]

@@matthewventures Thank you :)

[@kwesichristian5517]

Awesome. using this for a 2d sprite game so this helps out. thanks

[@rosh6369]

5:54 hahaha that was funny. Thank you so much for this video! I learned a lot!

[@MasterKill34]

Hi Matthew, I wanted to check the source code of your pipeline, but I only found the new parsing method for the twine text on your site. Are the links broken?

[@henryli4941]

Anyone tried to reproduce slow typer? I’m very much stuck on the begin function...

[@Searchinmano]

So in Twine you can only give options that bring the reader to another node? I hoped I could write a dialogue and have the reader choose what to say and progress in the dialogue on the same page, with new lines appearing as he proceeds. That's not possible from what I get, is it?

[@matthewventures]

How you display the text is your choice. You have complete control on how you display the lines.

[@xanisdramatic]

I came here from the walking dead game, I stayed for the genuinely good info I got. Great video!

[@matthewventures]

Yes, it's that easy!

[@BlueGooGames]

Super cool. I’m using pixelcrushers dialogue system that has twine support. How would you combine this with the google sheets translation from your other video? :)

[@dietjeffrey]

Did you end up using Entweedle or Twison? And why?

[@kellypenaranda9465]

Great video! I have a question...If I want to create an oculus quest game in unity, the twine system will work correctly too?

[@matthewventures]

Yes it will!

[@MrLefteris3000]

Help! Entweedle doesn't export it plays exactly like the others like an html page

[@matthewventures]

Sorry not sure

[@MrLefteris3000]

@@matthewventures it’s okay I will figure it out, no matter which one I set as a default when I hit play it plays normally, I tried twison too… don’t know why thanks for the quick reply tho!

[@MrLefteris3000]

@@matthewventures all good the hi in the new one is a bit weird. But I found it!

[@matthewventures]

@@MrLefteris3000 Wonderful. Could you please explain how you did it so that other people will know?

[@MrLefteris3000]

@@matthewventures yes! I was setting entweedle as the default but you also need to go to the top-> story -> Details -> and here you have to change the format to what you want.

[@howchen8529]

Great tutorial! Although is it possible to keep track of the speaker?

[@matthewventures]

Yeah I do that with the tags system

[@BanXxX69]

My Twine export was great at first. Now I just added another note and wanted to re-export it (still entweedle and all correct). But now it shows "Position" and other information after the title of every node and it won't work.... What happened? Any idea?

[@matthewventures]

Yeah, we ran into the same issue the other day. Looks like they updated the format to add some more information. I had to rewrite a section the code. But haven't updated my website with a new code yet. I'll try to get to it today and then let you know

[@BanXxX69]

@@matthewventures oohh - that was I was afraid of. Lol, thank you so much for your fast reply. If e re-export it and try to make changes to make it work it doesnt. BUT, on the one I have already exported, I can add new nodes by copy-pasting others in the textfile (of course its not the way to go but if anyone reads this and has his final assignment in 3 weeks like I do thats the way to try😂👍🏽)

[@matthewventures]

@@BanXxX69 Here: pastebin.com/myyAKsq6

[@brilliant_AI]

i almost new in this, can you teach us how to use these scripts

[@matthewventures]

Here is a step-by-step guide: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmWTd5Wbqtpmh7c

[@brilliant_AI]

@@matthewventures MY GOD THANKS DUDE REALLY THANKS you're my savior

[@BanXxX69]

I had the exact same question and I'm so glad you've already asked it because I'm doing it for a school project and I need the answer really fast :D :D

[@BanXxX69]

@@matthewventures Please tag this comment because I was in the same position and there are sure others - that'd be great! :-) Anyway, thank you so much for your support! :-)

[@mnicodev]

Hi Matthew, any preference between ink and twine? I have doubts about what tool to use. Have you used ink?.

[@matthewventures]

I personally think that with branching narratives, particularly where you can get pretty deep in the branches, it's necessary to have a guy which shows that branching. Ink does not have that. To my understanding at least. The main complaint with twine, was that it didn't have an easy to export format. But it's fairly easy to write code to convert the twine document and so that's what I did. If you're working in unity there are some pretty good paid assets, for branching dialogue. I used dialoguer which is good but not great. I also used Google sheets for a project. But ultimately I think this is the best approach I have seen.

[@mnicodev]

@@matthewventures thanks for the explanation! Yes I will use unity and I was thinking to use some kind of tool like twine or ink to help me with the dialogue. But definitely I'm gonna check the alternatives that you told me about. So thanks!

[@gibkitt]

Struggling with the delegates and not having the slowtyper class. :o

[@matthewventures]

What about the delegates could I clarify? The slow typer is unnecessary you can just set the text to mediately display a whatever you'd like

[@gibkitt]

​@@matthewventures No its just that I dont know how to work with them, so that is on me. Maybe include a simple output method to make this tutorial work with out your Slowtyper class? Just an idea to improve this tut :) Great job and thanks for this anyway!

[@matthewventures]

@@gibkitt Here is a step-by-step guide: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmWTd5Wbqtpmh7c

[@isse5611]

Tried to add the Entweedle story format and it says (Timeout) :(

[@matthewventures]

I'm not sure what caused that, the characters may have been entered incorrectly

[@Nyanyashadow]

You may have to add an "s" after http, that's what fixed it for me.

[@kevinwilliam6383]

i wanna do it by my self :[

[@matthewventures]

Here is a step-by-step guide: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmWTd5Wbqtpmh7c

[@recaro3504]

What if you dont have Entweedle?

[@matthewventures]

The guide includes the steps you need in order to paste in a certain URL that will allow you to use the entry to export format. You just need to paste in that URL in order to add the news story format. It's free

[@recaro3504]

@@matthewventures Never mind I got it thanks.

[@brutal6129]

Seems that unreal engine loses again

[@matthewventures]

Hahaha, yes unfortunately that does seem to be the trend. However I am currently doing projects in Unreal Engine to prepare for my fortnite internship so and learning to love in what ways unreal is really strong. While unreal doesn't have a great branch and I like editor, you could similarly import the twine document as I showed and parcel using the C plus plus equivalent of the C sharp code that I created.