Difference between revisions of "A beginner's guide, lesson 6 - Quest Dialogue"

==Three Problems==

There are 3 problems with the mod as it stands, (other than the fact it is not finished).

The first problem you may have noticed is that the text does not stay on the screen very long and our NPC will, just look at us. This is due to the way the game handles speech.  

It expects to find for each dialogue response files which we have not created. One is an MP3 which contains the sound files the others control are lip synch files used to animate the actor face as we carry out the dialogue. The text onscreen is set to appear on screen for the duration of these files.  

Since we don't have them yet the text runs very quickly. In later tutorials we will look at polishing this mod to include these files. For now these are cosmetic problems. It's irritating not to see the text for any length of time but it can't be helped, until we add those MP3's.  

The second problem deals with the script as it currently stands and may not be so obvious to a non-scripter. Remember the quest script works every 5 seconds. That means that every 5 seconds this script adds the topic BGMMessage4u to the players list. I don't honestly know the effect of repeatedly adding a topic to the player list. I suspect that having done this the first time the rest of the time the script is ignored.  

However, this is still an untidy way to script. If we only want the script to do something once we should write script that does this.

This leads us to one of the most important and common scripting ideas. A do once loop.

 

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