Trigger character animation

You mean you created it as a character animation in the default outfit of the npc character, yes?

In the dialog section, you may have noticed that there's a bit on the right hand side where you can create custom action parts - "execute action". Any action parts you place in there should be executed after the npc speaks their part.

Quick note: if you leave the reponse part & alternate text input boxes empty & enable the alternative text option, then it will skip both the player text & npc text & immediately execute any action parts you added, which allows you to get more creative with dialog based conversations as you can have a conversation with more than 1 npc that way or have some other npc in the scene chip in, or play custom animations, change conditions & so on.

No need to hide/show the NPC or put the animation anywhere else.

Tnx Lee

As Esmeralda just said, use the "play animation" action part.

Character animation index is to do with something else. Let's say you have 3 talk animations in the same outfit with the same direction. The character animation index determines which talk animation would be played. It only really affects the walk, talk, idle & random animations as these are triggered automatically by the engine & not manually started by you with action parts/Lua script.

If for example you want to express differnt moods while talking, you can create different talk animations for the same direction (like front, back, left ...) and change the index to tell the engine which of the animations should be played.

Edit: too late :-)

Tnx both! I got it. I thought the play animation was only for animation objects on the scene, but my character animation was also there.

It's for all animations that can be manually started.