Director (Actors)

Not available in Drafft 2 yet.

Director Section

In the Director section we will find a list of Actors and properties that we can fill for our game.

You should see Mother was added to the list. If you click on the tree item and lock the document you can add data in the different tabs.

Bio

Write a biography or any relevant rich text in the bio tab.

Properties

In this tab you can add plain text or structured data in hjson, json toml. If the latter this data will be serialized as JSON when generating the game export.

Name, age and gender are automatically created at random when a new actor is detected.

Expressions

A list of images to use when a script using UAF calls an expression [expression]. In hour example before we added [happy] so go ahead and click on Add Expression an add a picture for the happy expression.

Expressions are saved in lower case in the database, thus the matching is case-insensitive.

We can now go and test our script in the player, but , first, take a look at the remaining tabs.

Tagged/Speech Scripts

These tabs display all scripts associated with an actor. Tagged scripts will only show lines which contains [#tag] tags. Useful for example, to generate exports for voice actors.

You will notice that there is a comment before the lines indicating the script id , alias, and node name.

We can navigate to the dialogue or we can use the node name to identify the script in the script section (Remember, the dialogue node contains a linked script)

There is a special read-only folder inside the script section which includes all the dialogue scripts grouped by dialogue.

This section also contains a script player, but only scoped to the current script. Go ahead an try the new Mother expression.

Screenplays

While we are here, you can click on Screenplay toolbar button, to see/download the current screenplay in a script format. This particular project does not contains much screenplay comments but there is more info in the docs

To Be continued...

In the meantime, if you need help please visit the Drafft forums