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My mod is quite talkative as to what is going on with the systems, so that the player understand what is going on.
Right now, I only use display text, both in osiris, and scripts, but it is one liner, that can provide only one information at a time.

Is there a way to provide more feedback to the player ?

If it's related to an item or a character, you can start an automated dialog for them (those are the dialogs that appear above characters heads).

was exactly having the same issue - sorry cromcrom to highjack thread - but how do you start an automatic dialog that appear. above character heads? I played around a bit today and didnt manage it

edit: didnt find it in wiki either.

I have added an explanation about the difference between automated and interactive dialogs to the Dialog Editor wiki page.

I have also documented a story helper DB you can use to define ADs. As that page mentions, you can also start them from Osiris using Proc_StartDialog, or from behaviour script (DialogStart -- in fact, that API only works for automated dialogs).

wow - thank you so much!

Yes thanks Tinkerer, you are doing a great job on the wiki overall.

Cheers.

Automated dialogs are not enough AFAIAC.
I would need a way to display a log for the player, with a buch of messages appearing in order, up to a certain number.
Would be great to find this in an update, or maybe, even greater, it already exists

I'm not sure what you mean by "log" and how it is different from a automatic dialog. If an automatic dialog has a greeting node with a bunch of answer nodes linked to it, those nodes will be shown in order. Alternatively, there is the journal.

What I call a log would be a customizable display screen, where some messages would appear in order, from most recent to oldest, something like:
...
Survival skill failure: you manage to lit a small fire
Critical survival skill failure: You can't lit the fire, and lose your flint
Critical camping failure
You find a crab under the welp
Survival skill successfull
...

Right now, I can display these kind of osiris or script informations, but they last a few seconds, and one chases the other, so there is only one displayed at a time.

And REALLY, please understand that there is a big difference between something like
DisplayText(CHAR/ITEM User, STRING "whatever text",INT howLong, BOOL show on text log) and the fact of having to create a dialog in the third party dialog creation, and script the fact that it will appear at some time.