Topic: Grr.. I h8 asking simple questions but I need help running dialogs on room load.

[Mr Jake]

for my intro Im having a dramatic black backscreen story, Im having various pictures (objects) appear during this, as far as I can tell the only way I can do this is too have the convos split where the objects come in (ie: 3 line convo, object, 3 line convo) so I did it this way and then I tried putting :

RunDialog (0);
ObjectOn (0);
RunDialog (1);

in the room script, since this is just a black room there is no other script... um... this dont work..... how can I do this?

[Nixxon]

I'm a lamo at scripting... so can't help you there.
though, u could always use a bunch of GUI's using text labels and button pics.

GUIOn(2):
wait(180):
GUIOff(2):

I dunno, could work

[Mr Jake]

dunno, dont think it will 'paste' together right, Ill try....
thanks
I got it to work needed to add a few extra line to the dialog to stop it from looking for dislog options when there where non...
thxs

[Stickieee]

You could also use the run-script X conversation-feature, so you wouldn't have to split the dialog in two. I'm not sure which ones clumsier. Inline-scripting in conversations could be quite handy.

[Mr Jake]

I dont think you can turn object on in dialog script....

[Ishmael]

Not in dialog scirpt, but the run-script x dialog command calls the dialog_request in the global script... see the conversations-part in the setting up the game in the manual (right?)

[Mr Jake]

thats what I mean, I dont think you can call it then because its room dependant, on the list in the manual nothing about objects is there

[Ishmael]

It should work... the manual says, that the ObjectOn command turns on the specified object in the current room...

[SSH]

Is it actually a dialog, or just a bunch of talking? I mean, could you just use a bunch of messages or displayspeech to do the dialog, or do you need the user to decide on dialog options?