Issues with dialogue

[Plague]

Ok, i'm working on a little "project" of my own, and learning the editor at the same time. I created my own dialogue.txt, and made a map to test it on. I put down two characters, and stuck them in sitting position on a block.
(The block is to keep them from glitching into the terrain)
Then proceeded to save the map file.

Now here is the problem. I loaded the map back up, positioned myself next to the other players. And entered the console command:

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dialogue 11 plague1

From my understanding, if the dialogue is set to "11" it activates when you are in range of player1 on the map. Problem is, nothing happens at all.
I tried changing it to "1" and pressing attack near him to activate the dialogue. But all it did was cause my camera to change direction (I think pointed at the player) without him saying anything.

Anyone have a clue what steps I may have skipped or done wrong?[/code]

[rudel_ic]

Check this and that out.

I haven't successfully made any dialogue yet. Others may be more helpful. Good luck.

[Plague]

Can't use the Mapedit thing since i'm running Windows.
and i've already seen the stuff in that other link in the wiki.

[Jeff]

I thought someone ported it to Windows. Being ANSI C, it should only need a recompile.

[Silb]

From my understanding, if the dialogue is set to "11" it activates when you are in range of player1 on the map. Problem is, nothing happens at all.
I tried changing it to "1" and pressing attack near him to activate the dialogue. But all it did was cause my camera to change direction (I think pointed at the player) without him saying anything.

Anyone have a clue what steps I may have skipped or done wrong?[/code]

Lugaru has exactly that behaviour if there is no file named "plague1.txt" in the Lugaru/Data/Dialogues folder. Could you make sure?

[Plague]

Unfortunately it seems that the .txt is definitely "plague1".
But i'll keep trying.

[Jeff]

That sounds like the problem, it should be plague1.txt not just plague1.

[Silb]

"all it did was cause my camera to change direction (I think pointed at the player) without him saying anything." is typical of Lugaru thinking Data/Dialogues/plague1.txt either doesn't exist, or is empty, or the dialogue contains 0 box (the first two cases amount to the latter). Knowing this might help you find the bug/workaround.

Clincher: what happens if you type "dialogue 1 example"?

[Plague]

Nothing happens when i type "dialogue 1 example" so obviously there is something odd going on >_>

Edit: Technically something does happen. Same thing as my dialogue.
It just jerks the camera to player 1 and does nothing.