Dialogue Actors

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dialogue Actors connect authored character data in the .dialoguedb asset to world-space entities in the level. The system has two halves:

ActorDefinition – The data side. Defined in the DialogueDatabase, it holds the actor’s name, portrait, and metadata.
DialoguePerformerMarkerComponent – The world side. Attached to an entity in the level, it registers a named performer with the Dialogue Manager so the sequencer can find it at runtime.

When a dialogue sequence references an actor by name, the sequencer looks up the matching performer entity through DialogueManagerRequestBus::GetPerformer(name). This links the authored text, portraits, and performance instructions to a specific entity in the world.

Actors on GS_Play Gameplay Framework

Dialogue Actors