IsValidForPartyDialog

[Diana]

Sigh......

EXTEND_BOTTOM in conjunction with IF ~IsValidForPartyDialog

Has anyone else noticed that there is a 50/50 chance that your EXTEND_BOTTOM trigger takes place? Sometimes I wonder if it would be less than 50/50 if I resort to the default IF ~InParty, !Dead, See to make sure the trigger works properly.

[icelus]

IsValidForPartyDialog is wonky.  I'd definitely suggest the InParty !Dead route.

Just to be on the safe side, though, you might want to post the snippet of code you're EXTENDing here.

[Diana]

Snippet as requested.  This is one of the children in the slaver's quest which they rescue.  I can walk the sprite right up to the girl and this works 50% of the time otherwise  my coding is ignored and it goes with Bioware's originally coded branches.

EXTEND_BOTTOM girl2 0
IF ~IsValidForPartyDialog("MyNPC")~ EXTERN MyNPC gi1
END

APPEND MyNPC
IF ~~ gi1
  SAY @33
  IF ~~ REPLY @34 EXTERN Girl2 1
  IF ~~ REPLY @35 EXTERN Girl2 gi2
END
END

[Smoketest]

I don't know if this will help, but you might add !IsValidForPartyDialog("MyNPC") to the already existing transition for state 0 in girl2.dlg, so it will only trigger if your npc is not 'valid'. Most of Bioware's uses of IsValidForPartyDialog have a matching !IsValidForPartyDialog behind them (further up the list.)

[jcompton]

I don't know if this will help, but you might add !IsValidForPartyDialog("MyNPC") to the already existing transition for state 0 in girl2.dlg, so it will only trigger if your npc is not 'valid'. Most of Bioware's uses of IsValidForPartyDialog have a matching !IsValidForPartyDialog behind them (further up the list.)

They do, but it's largely irrelevant because of the way the dialogue engine evaluates transitions.

The biggest problem with IsValid is that it won't recognize the NPC as valid if the NPC is the gabber: the party member doing the talking. There are also other various challenges with the NPC appearing to be "hidden" behind scenery (see Tree of Life goofiness.) So, yeah, if you have something that you absolutely positively want to be played, InParty/!Dead is a good route. Add See() so that you don't get them interjecting from way the hell across the map.

[Rastor]

How about trying this, instead of IsValidForPartyDialogue:

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OR(2)
 IsValidForPartyDialogue("MyNPC")
 IsGabber("MyNPC")


[Diana]

Thanks - I never was too clear on the "Gabber" keyword.  I'll give it a shot and see what happens.