KotOR/TSL GUI Dialog Editor (DLGEditor) - Current Version: 2.3.2

[tk102]

Originally Posted by Lord Revan63

sup minion lol jking...........ok im new to the mod stuff and dialoge items but haveem downloaded....but i have 3 files all made by differ editors and 1 is bastila and revan kissing(visable) and 2 is bastila says she'll b ur lover if u go to the darkside, will those b deleted together cuz i wanted a perfect romance thing with my pc and bastila

and the 3rd is bastila darkside reskin will that also conflict with the game or no

I can't understand your questions. Could your ask them again and make mention of what problems you are having with DLGEditor? Please also check the dlgeditor_readme.txt and also this recent DLGEditor tutorial thread written by Pavlos.

[Lord Revan63]

ok my question is how do i use the dialoge editor to make my mods go together without deleting themselves in conflict

[tk102]

Ah ok. You'll have become fairly versed with how dialog trees work particularly the ones you're trying to merge. Then you'll need to decide how you imagine the new dialog tree to branch. At the node you want to branch from, you'll place a conditional script. Please consult the sources I mentioned for more details.

[Lord Revan63]

ok kool thanx

[Kryptex]

Do you require anything special to run the dialog editor? Because I've been trying all day to get it up and running, but to no avail.

[Ulic and Cay]

Does anyone have a list of the integers that the "FadeType" function supports and what those integers do?
While I'm asking questions... I don't suppose anyone knows what the "WaitFlags" field is for...

[Tupac Amaru]

Originally Posted by Ulic and Cay

Does anyone have a list of the integers that the "FadeType" function supports and what those integers do?
While I'm asking questions... I don't suppose anyone knows what the "WaitFlags" field is for...

FadeType:
3: make a fade in
4: make a fade out

By itself this isn't useful since the fade won't last long. You also need the fields FadeLength, FadeDelay and FadeColor fields. FadeColor is optional. If it isn't present then the game will do the standard black fade out/fade in. You can't add these fields with DLGEditor, so you'll have to do that with KGff. FadeLength and FadeDelay are of type FLOAT, FadeColor is a VECTOR.

WaitFlags:
1 - Delay node until animated camera is finished.
4 - Wait for DLG animation to finish (should not be done with a looping animation )

I don't know if other values for these fields do something.

[Ulic and Cay]

I see, I've always just scripted fades, KT is more user friendly than KGff. Also, I've seen WaitFlags set to 8 and 10 before, any idea what those values are doing?

[Tupac Amaru]

Originally Posted by Ulic and Cay

I see, I've always just scripted fades, KT is more user friendly than KGff. Also, I've seen WaitFlags set to 8 and 10 before, any idea what those values are doing?

No idea. Do you remember in which files those values were used?

[Ulic and Cay]

I came across those values in attwarn.dlg in 306NAR_dlg.erf

[Darth Balor]

lol I wander why... I 've used those values to simulate a few hours or so. Like in K1 with the slaves at Davik's Estate the fading is handled with wait and fade flags. Wait flags can be used if you want the dlg line to wait before going on to the next one.

[Tupac Amaru]

Originally Posted by Ulic and Cay

I came across those values in attwarn.dlg in 306NAR_dlg.erf

I don't think WaitFlags 8 or 10 do anything in that cutscene. The game goes thorugh the nodes without a noticable delay. After removing the WaitFlags the cutscene played the same as before.

[Darth Balor]

ok I'm having truoble getting dustil.dlg to play the new voicovers. I followed the tut by tk102 but i'm still stuck.

[Ulic and Cay]

Originally Posted by Tupac Amaru

I don't think WaitFlags 8 or 10 do anything in that cutscene. The game goes thorugh the nodes without a noticable delay. After removing the WaitFlags the cutscene played the same as before.

I didn't notice a change either but well they were there... I thought someone must have put them there for a reason. Silly me...

[Ulic and Cay]

Actually having 8 as a waitflag will do something. I changed the delay from 4 to -1 but left 8 as the waitflag and it just skipped the scene. I didn't investigate further so I'm not sure if having anything in the waitflag field with -1 in the delay field will always produce this or if 8 actually corresponds to a function. Just thought I'd mention it.

[Tupac Amaru]

Originally Posted by Ulic and Cay

Actually having 8 as a waitflag will do something. I changed the delay from 4 to -1 but left 8 as the waitflag and it just skipped the scene. I didn't investigate further so I'm not sure if having anything in the waitflag field with -1 in the delay field will always produce this or if 8 actually corresponds to a function. Just thought I'd mention it.

That didn't change anything in my game. I don't think OE have ever used a delay of -1 in a node that also had WaitFlags. Most of the time it was 0. If -1 can cause problems that would explain it.

[Ulic and Cay]

Oh right... My mistake. :-)

[Revan46]

Yeah so I have no clue how to operate the editor? I look for the dialog.tlk and its there, but when i try to open it through the editor it doesnt show up...It does show in the lower left pane, but I dont know how to open it so as to edit dialogue and such.

[JCarter426]

Never had any problems with the editor before, but today I open it up and get this error message:



Help? Please?

[tk102]

Can you try running as administrator?

[JCarter426]

Have to, with Vista. Still the same error message. Also tried redownloading.

And as far as I can tell, there's nothing wrong with the file in question.

[tk102]

Go to that AppData\Local\Temp folder and delete any folders that start with "pdk-"

That will force any Perl application to unpack itself over again. Maybe the previously unpacked .dll got corrupted.

[JCarter426]

Ah, that did it. Thanks!

[Gavroche]

Yep! I've almost got the same error message (with Windows XP though, and I am running as administrator), and I tried to delete any "pdk-" folder from C:\, but everytime I execute DLGEditor, new ones appear and the program keeps failing... Any ideas to get rid of that bug?
Thanks in advance.

[tk102]

I've uploaded v2.3.2 to my website
http://mods.starwarsknights.com/tk102

See if it helps you at all. I changed the order of some declarations to prevent crashes in some (rare) cases and it's been recompiled w/ PerlApp 7.2.

[Ferc Kast]

Originally Posted by tk102

I've uploaded v2.3.2 to my website
http://mods.starwarsknights.com/tk102

See if it helps you at all. I changed the order of some declarations to prevent crashes in some (rare) cases and it's been recompiled w/ PerlApp 7.2.

Yea; It actually opened for me. *huggles tk102, then gives tk a full plate of his delicious brownies* Now, I can actually do dialog files (hopefully) without crashing. I'll have to fix my Hanharr into Jedi mod, then.

I can't thank you enough for this version.

[tk102]

That's great Ferc Kast, I know DLGEditor has been uncooperative for you for a long time.

[Gavroche]

The new version did the trick :] Thanks a lot tk.

[tk102]

[zayne]

Hi everybody i got a little trouble with my first mod, i post the problem in here, but nobody has ansewer it.

I'm creating various soldier npc and they're supposed to say just an entry but only one of them is working properly. The other five just show a blank line with no text in it. I don't know what i'm doing wrong cause i used the same procces to create the six dlg files so i can't explain what is happening. Why only one of my npc is displaying the dialogues and the others don't?

I'm using the same template for the six npc's but with different appearance for each one, of curse saving them with different utc names. The only doubt i have is if i have to change the field tag for each new npc, or can i use the same tag for all the six.

[TriggerGod]

Originally Posted by zayne

Hi everybody i got a little trouble with my first mod, i post the problem in here, but nobody has ansewer it.

I'm creating various soldier npc and they're supposed to say just an entry but only one of them is working properly. The other five just show a blank line with no text in it. I don't know what i'm doing wrong cause i used the same procces to create the six dlg files so i can't explain what is happening. Why only one of my npc is displaying the dialogues and the others don't?

I'm using the same template for the six npc's but with different appearance for each one, of curse saving them with different utc names. The only doubt i have is if i have to change the field tag for each new npc, or can i use the same tag for all the six.

If I understand your problem correctly, then there should be a field in the DLGEditor that lets you put the Speaker's name (or rather, the tag/resref of his utc file). See if that works.

[zayne]

Right before i destroy my monitor i've discover what was wrong. The problem was that my game is an international version so my dialogue must be saved in the language of the game, in my case spanish. It was a dumb problem but i spend all last night trying to figuered out.

Thanks for the reply Trigger, and sorry about my english but it's not my natal language.

[Kurai Neko]

Hi guys.

Recently I install TSL RCM and some restore mod's to clear KotorTSL.

But I have small problem. Some dialogues should be translate in dlg files as i understand. Not only in dialog.tlk.

But DLG editor does not support russian language. And it's not possible to translate all game with RCM.

Could someone help Ru community and rebuild tool with Ru lang support.

Please))

Sorry for my bad english)

[Kurai Neko]

I try to modify src.
And take a problem with compilation modified file.
Where i can download some perl modules to compilate Ru version of tool?
Especially
Bioware::GFF 0.65
Bioware::TLK 0.02

[Laochra]

how do i connect the dialogue with my module files? ive named the them same thing as the npcs and but the speaker name as the npc's name aswell. wat am i doing wrong?

[harark1]

Hey i need some help using this.
Couple of questions.

1. How do I put a script in to fire when a certian dialog node is used?

2. How do I put a voice over into my dialog? (You know so you have an actual voice speaking)

3. How can I use the animations in the editor?

Well that is it thanks.

[Qui-Gon Glenn]

Hey Harark!

1. Script insertion is easy! There are literally available fields on any node of dialog that are labeled for scripting, ie: Script that fires when conversation ends, script that fires if conversation aborts - these two are on the root node of your convo. After that each node has a Script that determines availability and a Script that fires when spoken field.

Into these fields, if you have made your nwscript, you would enter the name of your script minus the suffix ( no .ncs ) and that should be about it. Then test your dialog and scripts

2. This is more complicated, essentially you need to record the VO in the correct format, and then follow a very specific naming convention. You will then need to extract .lip files and apply some lipsync to your speakers. There is a tut made just for this question... I suggest you search for it

3. The basic animations of speaking, or combat animations? For stuff like laughing while speaking, shaking your fist, gesturing... that is all done with the DLGEditor. In the lower section of the editor, slightly on the right-hand side, are two boxes, labeled Current Animations (should be empty) and Available Animations. Drag from one box into the other, and that should be about it.

If you want more complex animations, you will need to script an in-game action sequence... you can see something along these lines explained in this thread.

Hope this points you in the right directions!

[harark1]

Originally Posted by Qui-Gon Glenn

Hey Harark!

1. Script insertion is easy! There are literally available fields on any node of dialog that are labeled for scripting, ie: Script that fires when conversation ends, script that fires if conversation aborts - these two are on the root node of your convo. After that each node has a Script that determines availability and a Script that fires when spoken field.

Into these fields, if you have made your nwscript, you would enter the name of your script minus the suffix ( no .ncs ) and that should be about it. Then test your dialog and scripts

Um still confused. Where is the a script that fires when spoken field? What do you mean by script that "determines availbility"?

[harark1]

uh just ignore my last post I had been forgeting to compile my scripts. Hey i'm new to this, it happens right?

[Qui-Gon Glenn]

^^ I feel like the chick in the Progressive insurance commercials....

"It happens all the time!!!"

Yeah, veterans do it too....