Possibilities for extending the Character class - trying to achieve dynamic names

[problematik]

Hi,

what i'm trying to achieve is the following: have a bool variable called stranger per character, if that variable is true, the name of the character is to be Stranger and as soon as it is set to false, it should be the actual character name - displayName.

I know i can do this by having a static method called get_modified_character_name in a global class SomeHelpers and then inside each character DisplayName do {SomeHelpers.get_modified_character_name("actual_name_of_character")} and implement logic there. But this seems redundant as i want to apply this kind of logic to everyone. So i tried looking into dch files - i saw that we have a property called @path -> "@path": "res://addons/dialogic/Resources/character.gd", i tried changing that to to a custom class that extends Resources/character.gd, but it wont work.

I'm trying to understand if this is possible to do and if Extensions are a right fit, but i don't really understand how to achieve this with them.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[CakeVR]

Instead, I would recommend having a Dialogic Variable Group (they are dictionaries) for all revealed names.
Then make your own custom text box layer and when updating the speaker name, check if the associated DialogicCharacter is inside the Dialogic Variable dictionary.