The engine goes through these Respones from top to bottom, checking to see if each Response matches the parameters you've given in the Speaker Conditions section. When you open up any Topic in the Construction Set, to the right you will see a window that lists all the possible responses for that Topic, called Responses.
Top-Down Processingīesides being topics-based, the other important thing to understand about Morrowind dialogue is that the game engine processes dialogue in a top-down fashion.
While Tree Dialogue is possible to code into Morrowind’s engine, the writing of it has to be done carefully so as to allow the player the flexibility of roleplaying their character however they want. This contrasts to Tree Dialogue, where the writer of the game has taken the liberty to write out exactly what the player character is saying to the NPCs. The flow of conversation and how the player character is asking about the topics is largely left up to the player’s imagination. What this means is that the dialogue is organized by topics which the player can pick out of a list to ask the NPC about. The first thing to understanding Morrowind dialogue is that it is TOPICS-BASED Dialogue, rather than the Tree Dialogue you may be used to in other games like Skyrim or Neverwinter Nights. Tips for writing good dialogue is not the intent of this tutorial, and so I will be keeping this mainly to how to handle all the logistics of implementing dialogue using the Construction Set.
Writing out the dialogue is arguably the biggest part of the quest creating process that also requires the most creativity.
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