Dialogue System need Help

[FawkingAwesome]

Hey guys I'm new to Game Maker Studio and new to the language. I'm making a game and have been working on the dialogue system. This chunk of code was designed for characters respond to a set of choices, the dialogue starts by printing out the first element of the line_array, which it does, then give the player the choice of two responses from the response_array, which it instead prints out the second element of the line_array and I don't understand why.Was wondering if someone could help me get the dialogue system working I've spent days on it and can't get it to work. I'm initializing two arrays in an object oCivilian2 and pushing them through code DialogueCode which is linked to another object oRespond that supposed to allow me to sift through dialogue in game. Anything helps thanks



It's initialized here in create of oCivilian2

line_array = [3];
line_array[0] = "Ethan it's good to see you! \n I thought after the incident well.... \n well I thought we had lost you";
line_array[1] = "I've said too much";
line_array[2] = "You hit your head trying to saver her\n It was horrible";
response_array = [2];
response_array[0] = "What happened?";
response_array[1] = "I don't recall alot. How bad was it?";
counter = 0;
x1 = RESOLUTION_W / 2;
y1 = RESOLUTION_H -70;
x2 = RESOLUTION_W/2;
y2 = RESOLUTION_H;
_print = "";
responseSelected = 0;

Then the step which links it to DialogueCode when spacebar is pressed

keyActivate = keyboard_check_pressed(vk_space);
if (keyActivate) {
var inst = collision_rectangle(oPlayer.x+3,oPlayer.y+3,oPlayer.x-3,oPlayer.y-3, oCivilian2, false, false);
if (inst != noone) {
ScriptExecuteArray(DialogueCode, line_array);
ScriptExecuteArray(DialogueCode, response_array);
}
}

Then through to step in the object oRespond

lerpProgress += (1 - lerpProgress) / 50;
textProgress += global.textSpeed;

x1 = lerp(x1, x1Target,lerpProgress);
x2 = lerp(x2, x2Target,lerpProgress);


keyUp = (keyboard_check_pressed(vk_up)) || (keyboard_check_pressed(ord("W")))
keyDown = keyboard_check_pressed(vk_down) || keyboard_check_pressed(ord("S"));
responseSelected += (keyDown - keyUp);
var _max = 2;
var _min = 0;
if (responseSelected > _max) responseSelected = _min;
if (responseSelected < _min) responseSelected = _max;

for (var i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
var _marker = string_pos(",", response);
if(string_pos(",",response)) {
responseScript = string_copy(response,0,_marker);
string_delete(response,0,_marker);
var _marker = string_pos(",", response);
} else {
responseScript = string_copy(response,0, string_length(response));
}
}
if(keyboard_check_pressed(vk_space))
{
counter++;
}

Then to print in oRespond

/// text
//response
NineSliceBoxStretched(sTextBox, x1,y1,x2,y2, 0);
draw_set_font(fText);
draw_set_halign(fa_center);
draw_set_valign(fa_top);
draw_set_color(c_black);
if (counter % 2 == 0)
{
var _i = 0;
var _print = string_copy(text,1,textProgress);

draw_text((x1+x2)/2, y1+8, _print);
draw_set_color(c_white);
draw_text((x1+x2) /2, y1+7, _print);
_i++;
} else {
if (array_length_1d(responseScript) > 0) {
var _print = "";
for (var t = 0; t < array_length_1d(responseScript); t++)
{
_print += "\n";
if (t == responseSelected) _print += "--> "
_print += responseScript[t];
show_debug_message(responseScript[t]);
if (t == responseSelected) _print += " <-- "

}
draw_text((x1+x2)/2, y1+8, _print);
draw_set_color(c_white);
draw_text((x1+x2) /2, y1+7, _print);
}
}

 

[Nidoking]

responseScript appears to be a string, yet you're looking for the array_length_1d of it.