[SOLVED] Dialog Help: Triggering An Event/Global Variable

[JonCausith]

EDIT: Finally got it working. Special thanks to Khris and a PM by Adeel S. Ahmed for helping me with this!


Hello!

I'm progressing through my adventure game, and almost have the first room fleshed out. The only thing that is standing in my way is trying to trigger a global variable in the code.

In dRadio Dialog Script (altered for the sake of spoilers):

Code: ags

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EGO: "Can you pull up a profile on the victim?"
DISP: "Right. Searching now..."
DISP: ...
DISP: "Here we go. He was arrested many times for swindling bystanders."
DISP: "He apparently belonged to a ring of grifters. He definitely was no saint."
EGO: "Interesting."
EGO: "So I'm investigating the murder of a petty criminal."
DISP: "Keep in mind, this man was guilty of pulling scams."
DISP: "Murder is a far more serious crime."
EGO: "I am well aware of that."
DISP: "Well now we know the victim, let's get back to investigation."
EGO: "Right."
option-off-forever 2
return

Ideally, I have this Global Variable called "vVicConart" which would trigger an event if it's value became 1 instead of 0. What should I do to tackle this problem?

If there's an alternate way of achieving what I would like to go for, I'm all ears.

[Khris]

You can use standard script commands in dialog scripts; all you do is indent them by at least one space. So you can either set the variable or call the function directly. Or use multiple commands.

[JonCausith]

Thanks, Khris! I tried coding in the dialog at first, but it didn't really work.

Now that I know that there's a trick to it, everything's working the way I want it to now.