Manual-Advance allows your player to advance the timeline by using input mapped to dialogic_default_action (Project Settings → Input Map).
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1. What is Manual-Advance?
Manual-Advance is a feature in Dialogic that allows players to progress through the timeline with inputs! It's enabled by default: The player clicks, and the timeline moves down its stack of events.
2. Changing Manual-Advance via Code
Dialogic's Manual-Advance class can be easily accessed via the Inputs subsystem and allows you to change Manual-Advance during your game. It also has a number of settings not exposed to the dialogic interface.
All of this functionality lives in Dialogic.Inputs.Manual-Advance an DialogicManualAdvance object.
We can limit the player from interacting with the timeline to display a scripted timeline section.
2.1 Limit Player Inputs via Code
It's straightforward to script this behaviour. The following snippet showcases this:
Dialogic.Inputs.auto_advance.disabled_until_next_event = true
In Dialogic, both Manual-Advance and Auto-Advance share the concept of system: The system is the feature itself, in this case Manual-Advance. You can prevent players from advancing the timeline:
# No more inputs for you, player.
Dialogic.Inputs.auto_advance.system_enabled = false
Additionally, you can call the method Dialogic.Inputs.auto_advance.is_enabled() to check if the player can manually advance.