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

In this phase of the quest we want to use a new NPC called Captain Hubart to direct the player to solve a mystery. He will direct the player to a cottage, where they will discover a mysterious medallion and the dead body of the courier. Hubart will then be able to help us move on to Aleswell and the next phase.

Again, we need to add the NPC first so we can reference him in conditions.

As always, we could use a new NPC object, but it really saves a lot of time and effort if we simply change the name and ID of an existing one. This time we can just copy a Chorrol Guard NPC, such as ''ChorrolGuardPatrolNight01''. Change the ID to ''BGCptHubart'', and save it as a new form.

Strip out the AI, but leave his inventory as is, since the Chorrol guard's inventory already contains all we need. We can also leave the factions alone. I placed Hubart outside the Fire and Steel shop in Chorrol (worldspace ''ChorrolWorld'').<br />

''Hint: a fast way to get to an exterior cell is to select the interior cell, and then click on the teleport marker by the door.''<br />

This is only his starting position. We can add AI packages later to move the character about.

We have to set up a new response to the ''BGHubart'' topic.

We could add a new topic but it is always a good idea to try to limit how many new topics we add. This reduces the ‘footprint' of the mod, and helps avoid possible conflicts with other mods.

We want to set up a response so that when any Chorrol based NPCs are questioned they will direct the PC toward the likely location of the captain. Add conditions to limit the race to human again (saving all that MP3 work), and the location to the ''Chorrol'' dummy cell (thereby including all cells within Chorrol). We can also limit the ‘timescale' to the current quest stage (20). Try this yourself. You can always refer to the PLAYTEST version if you get stuck.

!  TOPIC TEXT

|  "Captain Hubart"

|  "He's usually on duty near the Fire and Steel."

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*GetIsRace 'Argonian' == 0, etc.

*GetInCell 'Chorrol' == 1

*GetInFaction 'ChorrolFaction' == 1

*GetIsID 'BGCptHubart' == 0

*GetStage 'BGM001' >= 20

First, add a TOPIC called ''BGCourier''.

!  TOPIC TEXT

|  "Missing courier"

|  "Vilanus has sent you to investigate the courier's disappearance?"

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*GetIsID 'BGCptHubart' == 1

*GetStage 'BGM001' == 20

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*BGCourier

Stop to test this out, and then refer to the PLAYTEST version if you are stuck.

Before we go any farther, we need to set the scene at the cottage.