Marking previously read conversation options?

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Atendega
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Marking previously read conversation options?

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Would it be possible to mark previously read conversation options? Perhaps with a darker text color, or something of that nature. I'm super OCD about making sure I read everything, so knowing for sure what I've already read would be a huge time/sanity saver.

It would also be nice if conversation options that require you to choose a response were marked in a different color, but that's less of an issue.
CMAugust
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Re: Marking previously read conversation options?

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It's on the post-1.0 roadmap, though any enterprising soul is welcome to write the code whenever and submit it as a pull request. It will then become an optional feature in OpenMW, toggled in the settings.cfg. Some features have already been introduced this way, such as showing owned items.
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Atahualpa
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Re: Marking previously read conversation options?

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There have been discussions regarding marking dialogue options. Have a look at Greyed out dialogue options and Grey out read dialogue topics. While this would be a nice feature to have, there are some difficulties -- e.g., consider an answer with different choices or somehow randomised outcome. Or imagine a situation where you have to click the same topic several times to provoke the NPC. The script would have to tell the engine to not grey out that particular topic.
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Atendega
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Re: Marking previously read conversation options?

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Ah, sorry about that. I had done a cursory search to see if anyone had asked about this before, I guess I must have missed those.

Thanks for the explanation!
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