Comments on: Mass Effect: Dialogue

By: Gedanken zu Dialogen | Niklas Rother - XNA Computer & mehr

Gedanken zu Dialogen | Niklas Rother - XNA Computer & mehr — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:56:43 +0000

[...] muss also eine andere Lösung her! Einen Ansatz gibt es hier: Der Autor hinter diesem Blog hat versucht das Dialogsystem von MassEffect zu reproduzieren. Leider [...]

By: Catalin Zima

Catalin Zima — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:25:42 +0000

Cool, Thanks!

I only ever played ME on the Xbox, so I only thought about controllers when implementing this sample. But yes, this would be of great help if you wanted to use it in a windows game.

By: Niklas Rother

Niklas Rother — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:07:50 +0000

Really cool!
But you missed adding Keyboardsupport
But i´ve done it for you: Simple replace DialogueWheel.HandleInput(GameTime) with this:
if (!Visible)
return;
Vector2 leftThumbstick = input.CurrentGamePadStates[0].ThumbSticks.Left;
if (leftThumbstick.Length() < 0.2f)
{
highlightedChoice = -1;
}

float angle = (float)Math.Atan2(-leftThumbstick.Y, leftThumbstick.X);
angle += MathHelper.PiOver2;

if (angle < 0)
angle += MathHelper.TwoPi;

highlightedChoice = (int)(angle / (MathHelper.Pi / 3));
highlightedChoice = highlightedChoice % 6;

if (input.LastKeyboardStates[0].IsKeyDown(Keys.NumPad9))
highlightedChoice = 0;
else if (input.LastKeyboardStates[0].IsKeyDown(Keys.NumPad6))
highlightedChoice = 1;
else if (input.LastKeyboardStates[0].IsKeyDown(Keys.NumPad3))
highlightedChoice = 2;
else if (input.LastKeyboardStates[0].IsKeyDown(Keys.NumPad1))
highlightedChoice = 3;
else if (input.LastKeyboardStates[0].IsKeyDown(Keys.NumPad4))
highlightedChoice = 4;
else if (input.LastKeyboardStates[0].IsKeyDown(Keys.NumPad7))
highlightedChoice = 5;
else
highlightedChoice = -1;

if (highlightedChoice == -1)
return;

if (entries[highlightedChoice] != null)
if (input.IsDialogueChooseBranch(null))
{
ChosenBranchID = entries[highlightedChoice].BranchID;
this.Visible = false;
}
Now you can select the entries with the numpad

By: simonjohnroberts

simonjohnroberts — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:17:07 +0000

I really am going to look this over again.

It’s like the third time I’ve been here.

top work incidentally.

By: Catalin Zima

Catalin Zima — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:31:15 +0000

Maybe for your future games

By: Martin Caine

Martin Caine — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:08:53 +0000

Wow, very nice sample. I only wish one of our current games needed a dialogue system!

By: Catalin Zima

Catalin Zima — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:57:10 +0000

About the exception… it’s entirely possible. The main point of the sample is the dialogue handling, as seen in the XNA project. The editor is just an extra bonus, which I did to avoid writing XML manually
So yeah, if you encounter any exceptions… I’m sorry

Thanks for the feedback

By: Clarvalon

Clarvalon — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:13:32 +0000

Very nice. The Mass Effect dialogue wheel is, as far as I’m concerned, the only real evolution of the dialogue tree common in the old point ‘n click adventures.

P.S. I managed to get an unhandled exception in the Editor but I’m jiggered if I can recreate it.

By: Catalin’s XNA Experiments » Mass Effect Dialogue Sample

Catalin’s XNA Experiments » Mass Effect Dialogue Sample — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:33:09 +0000

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