Totally Random Dialogue Selector (1 Viewer)

[bodsquad1]

Hi all, this is my first post sorry if it's rubbish but I wanted to share something I came up with.
i'm guessing like me you've got loads of dialogues and have to keep loading them or changing them in the dialogue file.
So i thought what if i could set it up so i could randomly choose a dialogue.
And here it is "The totally random Dialogue selector"
Instructions are in the file
Have fun

 

[zzaapp002]

Cool idea!

 

[The Hacker Known As Snow]

This is awesome! I had some trouble setting it up since the instructions don't include what prerequisites you need so I thought I'd make a post about how to do it.

[Loader folder set up]

Spoiler

You need the Loader and DialogueActions. Inside the loader, at \Mods\$INIT$\ place SDTDialogueActions<VERSION>.swf inside. Then add the file's name to Mods.txt in that same folder. Next make a folder inside \Mods\ and copy all the dialogue .txt files you plan on using to it. Copy this folder path so we can use it later.

If you have Notepad++ Its really easy to set up Totally Random Dialogue Selector.txt without having to copy every file name into it by using Column editing mode. Open two Notepad++ tabs. Then open command prompt by going to Start > Type "cmd" then enter. Inside command prompt type

cd C:\[Your SDT Dialogues Folder]

to Change Directory Then type

dir

to generate a list of the Directory. Right click > Mark then select the list of .txt file names then right click again to copy. Paste this list into Notepad++

Now open Totally Random Dialogue Selector in the other Notepad++ tab. Copy the line :

diachoice:"------- DISPLAYED DIALOGUE NAME ------"{"style":"him","set":{"da.dialogue.load":"actual dialogue file name.txt"}}

for as many dialogues as you have. In the list of file names, while holding [Alt] click and highlight the whole list and copy it. Do the same thing in the other tab but select the whole "actual dialogue file name.txt" column delete then paste in the list you just copied. Do the same thing with the "DISPLAYED DIALOGUE NAME" column. If you want to remove the .txt extension you can use 'find and replace'. When your done save the file as "Dialogue.txt" and place it in the \mods\ folder with all your dialogues.

Lastly, update the CharacterFolders.txt file inside of \Mods\ and add "DialogueFolderName:Dialogue". Start the loader.swf and in the Character list you'll see DialogueFolderName. Choose that let it select a dialogue then load your character. Enjoy!

 

[bodsquad1]

Well, that certainly makes things faster. But i couldn't get the command prompt to do what you said, maybe i'm reading wrong. My files is saved on a different drive all i could get was destination not found or words to that effect. In the end i used a batch file i already had on my PC to get the list.
Fine work all the same.

 

[The Hacker Known As Snow]

If in CMD you did

cd E:\[Your SDT Dialogues Folder]

nothing will happen. You first need to switch drives by doing

E:

I also happen to have SDT on another drive but didn't think it was too common, so I hope this helps.

 

[bodsquad1]

Hah knew i was doing something wrong haven't used cmd prompt in years. All sorted now cheers