Dialogue Manager
Full API reference for GS_DialogueManagerComponent — dialogue database management, performer marker registration, and the DialoguePerformerMarkerComponent.
Category: Cinematics
Typewriter
Full API reference for the TypewriterComponent — character-by-character text reveal with configurable speed, force-complete, and notification events.
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Cinematics Manager
Full API reference for GS_CinematicsManagerComponent — cinematic lifecycle control, stage marker registration, and the CinematicStageMarkerComponent.
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Step 1: Create the Database
Create a dialogue database and define performers.
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Cinematics Manager
How to coordinate cinematic sequences in GS_Play — beginning and ending cutscenes, registering stage markers, and reacting to cinematic events from scripts.
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Babble
Audio babble synchronized to dialogue typewriter output — procedural vocalization tones keyed to speaker identity.
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Step 2: Author a Conversation
Build a simple linear dialogue sequence using Text and End nodes.
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Dialogue System
How to author and play back branching dialogue in GS_Play — the Dialogue Editor, node types, conditions, effects, performances, and the runtime sequencer.
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Dialogue System Setup
A step-by-step lesson for setting up a working dialogue system with the Dialogue Editor, UI components, and runtime playback.
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Dialogue System
Architecture overview of the GS_Cinematics dialogue system — the Dialogue Editor, sequencing, UI display, actors, and extensible conditions, effects, and performances.
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Step 3: Wire Up the Runtime
Place the runtime components needed to play dialogue sequences in-game.
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GS_Cinematics
Node-graph dialogue sequences, cinematic stage management, polymorphic performances, and world-space UI with typewriter and audio babble.
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GS_Cinematics
Dialogue graphs, cinematic staging, UI display, localization, and extensible condition/effect/performance systems for authored narrative experiences.
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Dialogue UI
How to display dialogue text, player choices, and typewriter effects in GS_Play — screen-space and world-space UI components and the bridge that connects them to the sequencer.
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Step 4: Display Dialogue In-Game
Set up dialogue UI components for text display and typewriter effect.
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Performances
How to move and reposition actors during dialogue in GS_Play — the polymorphic performance system, built-in movement types, and async completion.
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Step 5: Add Player Choices
Add branching dialogue with Selection nodes and choice UI.
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Dialogue Editor
Visual graph editor for authoring branching dialogue sequences — database model, node catalog, and extensibility.
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Step 6: Conditions and Effects
Gate dialogue branches with conditions and trigger game effects from dialogue.
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Dialogue Sequencer
Full API reference for the DialogueSequencerComponent and DialogueUIBridgeComponent — runtime dialogue graph traversal, node processing, and UI routing.
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GS_PhantomCam
Priority-based virtual camera management — composable stage pipeline, channel-aware instancing, blend profiles, and spatial influence fields.
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GS_PhantomCam
Priority-based virtual camera framework — composable stage pipeline, channel-aware instancing, blend profiles, influence fields, group targets, tug fields, and noise.
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Dialogue UI
Full API reference for all dialogue UI components — screen-space and world-space dialogue display, selection menus, typewriter text reveal, and babble audio.
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Timeline Expansion
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Dialogue Actors
Full API reference for DialoguePerformerMarkerComponent, ActorDefinition data model, and the performer registration and lookup system.
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Effects
Full API reference for the DialogueEffect base class and built-in effect types — SetRecords and ToggleEntitiesActive.
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Performances
Full API reference for the DialoguePerformance base class and built-in performance types — MoveTo, PathTo, and RepositionPerformer.
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Templates
ClassWizard templates for GS_Cinematics — dialogue conditions, effects, and performance objects for the dialogue sequencer.