More robust NPC's that use Custom NPC's features like dialog trees.
I teach Game-Based learning to undergraduate university education students. I teach them that dialog and narrative are very important when creating lessons in Minecraft. We need the ability to create robust dialog trees that will let students explore on their own. It would also be nice to have those trees included with the built in text reader. What an awesome but incredibly limited tool you folks have put into the game. Basically you need to dissect and include the features in Custom NPC's that is what I need to make this a really great tool to teach content.
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Mark Stevens Have you done any research into the /dialogue commands? It may be possible to create Dialogue trees by using a bunch of NPCs and using the /dialogue open commands within them.
It may also actually be possible to use the /dialogue change command to create dialogue trees specifically for a given NPC but that is going to include creating a behavior pack in which to place the dialogue scenes for use with the command. However, I expect that should be well within the skill set that could be taught to game-based learning university students. Challenge I'm having right now is EE doesn't have documentation for doing this, the documentation I'm finding is for Bedrock Edition V 1.17 But since the /dialogue change command exists in the current version of EE I have to assume this is a feature that is cumming from the current Education edition (just not documented for us) and is just now available in Bedrock for 1.17.
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Yes, I just found https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/minecraft/creator/documents/npcdialogue ... this is quite exciting, and I plan on adding it to my assignment in the future. My issue with it is that my students are not computer science students and would not recognize a .json file if it bit them in the behind. I need a front-end interface that removes the need for hard coding the dialog and lets my students focus on the dialog and educational content over coding. I will search more on the /dialog change command and see what I can dig up. In the meantime, I think that Microsoft needs to make this a font-end feature for simplicity and ease of use. My students don't have the time to code and should really be focusing on the educational content. K-12 students outside of CS classes would benefit too. Then, of course, those high school CS students can still use the manual coding feature. Nothing wrong with that!
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