RPGDX > Forums > Story and dialogue > Is there a visual dialog tree editor out there?

Hajo · Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:22 pm Post subject:

Didn't make that much progress, but at least I got the tooltips done:

Binary/executable:
http://simugraph.gotdns.org/site/misc/diasim/situflow-0_12.zip

Source:
http://simugraph.gotdns.org/site/misc/diasim/situflow_src-0_12.zip

Still need to rework the export format, and the actual simulation is left to do, too. Also the source code is a bit sparse on comments.

Hajo · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:32 pm Post subject:

While trying to model a situation flow (continuing the janitor orc encounter), I noticed that the stat input fields besides the response texts sometimes collapse. I've uploaded a version that fixes this problem.

Binary/executable:
http://simugraph.gotdns.org/site/misc/diasim/situflow-0_13.zip

I'll do more testing, and work some more on an example situation flow as showcase.

DeveloperX · Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 1:20 am Post subject:

downloading...sorry..I've been having net trouble..
I'll check it out and let you know

(edit)

Okay, I don't see much difference..I do see the tool tips.

I noticed that the pink boxes bottom edges are not drawn correctly.
The edit boxes are overdrawn over the bottom border O_o a little odd.

Still looking forward to seeing this project finished. :)
Keep up the good work Hajo.
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Hajo · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:36 am Post subject:

I hope I can pick up work on this soon again. Also sorry for the late answer, I was distracted with too many real life issues for a while.

I'll check the overdraw issue. Maybe I had compiled the latest version with Java 1.4 - not sure though, must check, and also check if something else might cause the problem.

While I didn't get to work on the editor, I now and then was thinking about possible scenarios and hit a question:

Should the situation/dialog flows be deterministic, or slightly random? In case of the janitor orc story, there could be two outcomes for the "attack with boot knife" option. Once, the attack succeeds and once it fails - but since this is right after the start of the situation flow, the base values of the simulation do not allow to model such yet. Still there could be a random factor, like 3 in 10 times the ambush succeeds, 7 in 10 times it fails.

This would change the simulation from deterministic and totally predictable to a game of luck, at least a bit.

I don't know if this would be good or bad. What do you think, should such flows be totally deterministic, or is it better to mix in some luck?

Hajo · Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 8:03 am Post subject:

Project is on halt currently. I'm sure I'll pick it up again some day, but at the moment I'm busy with other things. I'll post again, once there are news.

I think I'll include the "random weight" for links, though, and another feature that is needed is to have "tags" for situations, that can be used to trigger events in a game engine ... not quite sure about that, but at the moment it seems the most generic approach.

DeveloperX · Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:40 pm Post subject:

Hajo · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:06 am Post subject:

DeveloperX · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:55 pm Post subject:

Sounds good man :)
Glad to hear the project didn't die out.
Make sure there are some "tool tips" on the fields so that one knows what they are for. :D
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Hajo · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:59 pm Post subject:

Maybe I make the online help a dialog flow in the system itself ;)

Malignus · Scholar Joined: 12 May 2009 Posts: 198

Um...how am I supposed to run this program? Running the .bat pops open a DOS console, which promptly closes without doing anything. (I'm using Vista x64, which might be a cause of the problem.) This sounds like a cool project, though. :)

DeveloperX · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 5:07 pm Post subject:

Do you have the JRE installed?

Open a DOS console to the path you extracted the .zip to, and
type

Hajo · Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 10:23 am Post subject:

Lately I was reminded of this project and added a little something that seems to be required for integration with a game engine.

I've Added a "tag" text field for the links. This can take a generic string value to be used by a game engine that interprets the situation or dialog flow, and need to trigger actions on the links taken. I hope a string/text field like this will be generic enough.

Edit - New preview:

http://www.funkelwerk.de/data/diasim/editor_3.png

Edit 2:

Unfortunately the save routines go berserk, and on each loading-saving cycle the file grows, as if the graph was saved multiple times into the file, but after loading I see it displayed only once. This inbuild XML serialisation of Java sure has some pitfalls ... I hope it won't take too long to find the problem.

Hajo · Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 1:52 pm Post subject:

I think I have something somewhat usable now:

http://www.funkelwerk.de/forum/index.php?topic=121.msg1096#msg1096

Still very much work in progress.

Hajo · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 1:04 pm Post subject:

I've published the project on SourceForge, under the GPL license. I barely get around to work on it, and I thought maybe the code might be useful for other people, too:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/situflow/

Hajo · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 4:15 pm Post subject:

There is now also a download of the executable on Sourceforge. For those who don't want to compile by themselves:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/situflow/files/Situflow%200.18/

And some basic info is in the wiki:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/situflow/index.php?title=Main_Page