New features

[AnidemDex]

Just an issue to discuss and keep track of new features planned or that could be cool to be included in the plugin.
Gonna open https://github.com/AnidemDex/Godot-DialogPlugin/discussions/ if I see that'll be something necessary (and will note every idea from discord).

None of those ideas will be included in the plugin until someone needs it, and a related issue about the implementation of that specific feature will be created.

not to fix an existing problem, just to add new problems to the road 🤪 /j

New features

Write based (script-like) timelines

• Write based (script-like) timelines:

Something like:

[CharacterJoin GodoBot]
GodoBot: Oh, hi mark!

[EmitSignal "do_this"]

[CharacterJoin Godette]
[ChangeExpression Godette "Anger"]
Godette: Do you have to make the same joke everytime we meet?
 ...

Why?

Because we can! Sometimes is easier to keep and mantain timelines this way, feels more natural than making it through the timeline editor

How?

With dark magic Resources can be imported in many ways. Actually, timeline resources are text-based resources, saved as a Godot Text-Based Resource (*.tres) resource. You can tell Godot what and how can it import (literally) any file with any extension (dealing with the FormatLoader/Saver).

ChoiceEvent Yarnn-Spinner like

• ChoiceEvent Yarnn-Spinner like.

Do you know nights in the woods? Well, that game have an amazing choice system that I want to replicate (since Yarn Spinner is a Unity thing).

Here's a link to the repository https://github.com/YarnSpinnerTool/YarnEditor
Note that I don't want to steal that choices idea and say "Hey, I made this, so it's MINE". Steal is bad. I just liked the design of the spinnable choices and want to replicate it.

Edit: Someone managed to use Yarnn in Godot (https://github.com/kyperbelt/GDYarn)

Compatibility with other text-script based formats or other plugins in timelines

• Compatibility with other text-script based formats or other plugins in timelines

Do you know ink? What about renpy? Scrips made in json?
What if we read those formats and transform them into a timeline usable by this plugin? We're using Godot Resource, sure we can do that! Take a look to write-based timelines.

Video tutorials

I have no idea about video editing or about being a celebrity on internet, but video resources about how to use the plugin and where can be implemented is not a bad idea.

[AnidemDex]

Update: Hey, @kyperbelt managed to integrate Yarnn to Godot. Take a look here https://github.com/kyperbelt/GDYarn

We will need to contact him in the future to integrate its stuff

[AnidemDex]

@Jeremi360 are you still interested on your idea? I'm curious about what happened

[Jeremi360]

@Jeremi360 are you still interested on your idea? I'm curious about what happened

You surprised me a bit with your answer and I got a bit scared 😅
Yes, I'm still interested on my idea of joining forces.
I just see that there are many projects for Godot that are Dialog Systems,
on most of them work one person or in better scenarios few people.
So I thought it would be better to combine these projects, efforts and experience into one project.
Now Rakugo is becoming modular, collection of plugins,
so everyone can add something from each other in a flexible way, how about that?
Now only @TheLudovyc and me are working on Rakugo.

[AnidemDex]

@Jeremi360 for now, I'm still working on this plugin. When I saw a feature that can be integrated in rakugo, I'll try to do it. Take a look at EventSystem, maybe that can be useful there.

[Jeremi360]

@Jeremi360 for now, I'm still working on this plugin. When I saw a feature that can be integrated in rakugo, I'll try to do it. Take a look at EventSystem, maybe that can be useful there.

Okay, I see. I will look at your EventSystem.
How you made that you can connect different scripting ways of dialogues ?