Remove target reticle from object

[Salk 374]

Hello!
 

I would like to know how to make objects like creatures or placeables no longer interactable. 

 

Thanks!

[DarthParametric 3,783]

For placeables it should just be the "usable" and "party interact" checkboxes in the advanced tab I think. I'm not sure about characters.

[Salk 374]

Thanks.

 

I am trying to make a character no longer interactable with at the end of a dialogue so I was hoping to accomplish that via script.

[Fair Strides 509]

Can't do it with characters per-sey (not without editing the OnDialogue script to check some sort of variable to determine whether to launch the conversation), but you could add a blank line at the top of the DLG and have a script check some sort of variable to make that line fire.

[Salk 374]

Oh I see, Fair Strides... Weird... What you are telling me, if I understand correctly, is that I can stop the dialogue from happening so that the conversation won't launch but what I meant was making the character/creature no longer targetable. Strange that the developers never provided a solution for that... I think I remember I used MakeUnselectable() for Baldur's Gate, which used a more primitive engine...

[DarthParametric 3,783]

Could you use a script to destroy the character at the end of the conversation and then spawn in a new non-interactive character that uses the same appearance?

[Salk 374]

I have been thinking of that solution myself, DarthParametric... I was just hoping for an easy way out! 

 

By the way, do you know how I make a .dlg line be delivered in a bubble box rather than start the conversation cutscene? 

 

Thanks!

[Fair Strides 509]

That function doesn't exist in KotOR because the devs never thought one would need to do that type of task in KotOR, which was never designed to be modded.

 

For the DLG thing, just make that line in the DLG be in the main branch and have no replies or entries after it. Check out one of the party members' DLG files and the first few entries should be set up that way as well.

 

Or you can basically picture a one-liner dialog only being one line, with nothing after it in the DLG Editor.