Few newbie questions

No code to show here, just general questions:

• I made a simple text parser using ink's integration plugin, nothing too fancy but working better than everything I tried, I want to expand on it a little bit by detecting custom functions(?), E.g: if there is [Player] replace it with the name of the player, if the text is

  [Speaker]John:[/Speaker] I am john

  then remove john from that string and set it as a separate string for the speaker.... what would be the best approach to achieve that? or what are the functions i should be looking at?
• Follow up to the previous question, what would be the best approach to handle all those functions. dictionaries?
• Speaking of dialogue, what would be the best approach to handling variables for dialogue, in other words, to keep track of what dialogues played and what didn't , what conditions are true and what conditions are not? the best thing i can think of would be 2 dictionaries, one with the condition variables one for the visited dialogues, make a serializable array of conditions and check them before playing the dialogue. I guess whatever the answer to that is would also apply to quests later on.

Thanks a lot in advance.

 

posting this as a reply because it is longer and less important but I feel like my code could be cleaner than the mess i have right now, wanted to make the parser script reusable for all dialogue and have a reader script have all the parameters, but it ended up the other way around

Code (CSharp):

1. public class InkCustomParser : MonoBehaviour
2.     {
3.         // Compiled json asset
4.         Story _inkStory;
5.         bool firstExecution = true;
6.  
7.         [SerializeField] TextMeshProUGUI dialogueTextBox;
8.         [SerializeField] Button[] options;
9.        
10.  
11.  
12.         public void ReadStory(TextAsset textToRead)
13.         {
14.             if (firstExecution)
15.             {
16.                 SetStoryToRead(textToRead);
17.                 ContinueStory();
18.  
19.  
20.                 firstExecution = false;
21.             }
22.  
23.             if (_inkStory.currentChoices.Count > 0)
24.             {
25.                 DisplayButtons();
26.             }
27.             if (_inkStory.canContinue && Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.Return))
28.             {
29.                 ContinueStory();
30.             }
31.            
32.  
33.             if (!_inkStory.canContinue && _inkStory.currentChoices.Count == 0 && Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.Return))
34.             {
35.                 EndOfStory();
36.             }
37.         }
38.  
39.        
40.  
41.         private void DisplayButtons()
42.         {
43.             for (int choiceIndex = 0; choiceIndex < _inkStory.currentChoices.Count; ++choiceIndex)
44.             {
45.                 Choice choice = _inkStory.currentChoices[choiceIndex];
46.                 options[choiceIndex].gameObject.SetActive(true);
47.                 options[choiceIndex].GetComponentInChildren<TextMeshProUGUI>().text = choice.text;
48.             }
49.         }
50.  
51.         private void HideButtons()
52.         {
53.             for (int buttonIndex = 0; buttonIndex < options.Length; ++buttonIndex)
54.             {
55.                 options[buttonIndex].gameObject.SetActive(false);
56.             }
57.         }
58.  
59.         private void ContinueStory()
60.         {
61.             dialogueTextBox.text = _inkStory.Continue();
62.         }
63.  
64.  
65.  
66.  
67.         private void SetStoryToRead(TextAsset textToRead)
68.         {
69.             _inkStory = new Story(textToRead.text);
70.         }
71.        
72.        public void ChoosePath(int index)
73.         {
74.             Debug.Log("index is " + index);
75.             _inkStory.ChooseChoiceIndex(index);
76.  
77.             HideButtons();
78.             ContinueStory();
79.         }
80.  
81.  
82.  
83.         private void EndOfStory()
84.         {
85.             HideCanvas();
86.             _inkStory = null;
87.         }
88.  
89.         private void HideCanvas()
90.         {
91.             gameObject.GetComponentInChildren<Canvas>().gameObject.SetActive(false);
92.         }
93.     }
94.  
95. }

below is the reader that was supposd to contain the parameters

Code (CSharp):

1.  public class InkCustomReader : MonoBehaviour
2.     {
3.         [SerializeField] TextAsset dialogue;
4.  
5.         InkCustomParser dialogueParser;
6.         private bool dialoguePlayed = false;
7.  
8.         private void Awake()
9.         {
10.             if (dialogue == null)
11.             {
12.                 Debug.Log("No Dialogue To read, script stopped from executing");
13.                 this.enabled = false;
14.             }
15.  
16.         }
17.  
18.         private void Start()
19.         {
20.             dialogueParser = FindObjectOfType<InkCustomParser>();
21.         }
22.  
23.         private void Update()
24.         {
25.             if (!dialoguePlayed)
26.             {
27.                 StartDialogue(dialogue);
28.                
29.             }
30.            
31.         }
32.  
33.         private void StartDialogue(TextAsset dialogue)
34.         {
35.             dialogueParser.ReadStory(dialogue);
36.  
37.         }
38.     }