Set a "divert" variable from gdscript?

[mlinden87]

I'm using Ink to setup many short dialogues in my game, where a knot represents a separate dialogue. In the game, when interacting with certain NPCs the player gets offered a couple dialogues to choose from. Choosing one diverts to the chosen ink knot to start the dialogue. Everything works, except for the actual divert.

Very simplified, in Ink I set up variables for the knots to divert to.

In Ink:

VAR option_1_divert = -> my_knot_x
VAR option_2_divert = -> my_knot_y

What do you want to talk about?
*[Option_1] -> option_1_divert
*[Option_2] -> option_2_divert

On the Godot side of things, I have a function that creates a random knot that exists in the ink story based on a couple criteria. This should then be passed to the ink variable VAR option_1_divert to divert to the random knot when choosing that option. Problem is, this is a string, so can't pass it back into the ink variable, as that expects a divert type.

In Godot:

var random_knot_1: String = create_random_knot() #returns e.g. awesome_knot_z

_ink_player.set_variable("option_1_divert", random_knot_1)

Is there a way to make this work? Found an old discussion for Unity, that offered a way by changing the Path class, but how about Godot?

[ephread]

Is there a way to make this work? Found an old discussion for Unity, that offered a way by changing the Path class, but how about Godot?

Yes,Path exists in inkgd as well, it's in ink_path.gd (to prevent collisions with the native Path type).

var InkPath := load("res://addons/inkgd/runtime/ink_path.gd") as GDScript

var random_knot_1 = InkPath.new_with_components_string("awesome_knot_z")

_ink_player.set_variable("option_1_divert", random_knot_1)

Note that creating paths that point to gathers outside of the runtime is tricky because gathers are usually one container deeper than expected. For instance, this divert:

VAR divert = -> knot.stitch.gather

uses the following path:

var divertPath = _ink_player.get_variable("divert") as InkPath
var path = divertPath.components_string # equals "knot.stitch.0.gather"

See here and here. Let me know if that helps you!

[mlinden87]

This is perfect! Works like a charm. Thank you so much!