OnEndActionList & Conversations - Getting called unexpectedly

Temmy

Hello all,

When my player starts a conversation with a NPC I have a bit of code that checks via OnBeginActionList and OnEndActionList what Action Lists have started and finished.

For instance, it correctly registers when this action list starts:

When it gets to the 'Start Conversation' action though I'm seeing OnEndActionList being fired. Is this expected? I'd have thought the action list would still be running even if conversation options were on screen?

Thanks!

ChrisIceBox

That would be expected, yes. For technical reasons, the ActionList shuts down temporarily while the player makes a choice.

What you can do, however, is try checking the value of the ActionList's conversation variable at this time.

Temmy

@ChrisIceBox Good to know it's behaving as expected. I'll try the conversation variable now and see what I can do with it. Thank you sir.

Temmy

I get a null result on the conversation variable when checking it when the conversation choices are on screen. Does that seem correct?

Temmy

It seems that the conversation variable is always reading null, when the Action List starts, and when conversation options appear on screen. That being the case, I don't see a way of using it to help ascertain if the action list has truly finished.

ChrisIceBox

My mistake - this is only set if the options are not overridden by the action.

What you instead want to read is IsConversationOverride() - which is a property of ActiveList, which is used to record data about an ActionList currently being run.

Something like this:

foreach (ActiveList activeList in KickStarter.actionListManager.activeLists)
{
    if (activeList.IsConversationOverride ())
    {
        // This ActionList is busy:
        // activeList.actionList
    }
}

You can also read IsNecessary(), which makes further checks for things like it being paused etc.