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

We want to remove some of the clutter. We also want to give the impression a fight has taken place. Tips some chairs and tables over (Y=90). Remember this set will be locked at the start and you will only use it for a short time, so don't go overboard. We also want to place some props. We need an amulet to trigger the next phase. Why an amulet. It's small enough that you have to look for It., without being so small that it becomes hard to find. Again use an existing item of jewellery as a base and edit it. I called it BGEmbossedAmulet. Set this as a Quest Item. This means the character can not drop or sell this item once he has picked it up.

We also want to create a custom letter with this text called BGPartialLetter. Set the letter as a quest item. We will refer to it in some scripts.

The client wishes his only living heir in Cyrodiil, to inherit his house, I have enclosed

the deed and key. the location is registerd at the Imperial City land offices ..<br>

Of course this would look really cool if we could create a custom ‘ripped' scroll. But that is beyond the scope of these tutorials.

Finally we want the body of the unfortunate courier.

Bodies are NPCs who just happen to be dead. You will need to create an NPC, don't bother too much about detail on this one as they are dead. I used the Courier1 npc as abase.

Place this character in to the render window, Edit her ID, and position in a suitable place. I put her in a side room so you don't see her straight away. . I also left a nice blood trail to lead you to her. Initially she will be standing up.

First edit the NPCs health to read zero (0).

 

Now the awkward thing is the fact that she is just standing there. She will stay standing in the game unless we make her fall first. To get her to fall, click on the WORLD menu and select run havoc sim, now click this.

 

Down she goes.

We have to now add the letter to the dead courier's inventory.

I also placed a sword which pointed directly at the amulet.

Another useful technique is to create an NPC called something like BGDummyPlayer. Use any base you like. We will not place this NPC in the render window. Don't bother to edit anything other than the reference ID.

We can now set the ownership of the door and cell (lesson 3) to BGDummyPlayer. This means that all items in the cottage will display the red hand, with the exception of the embossed amulet. This is a handy way to set ownership without having to create detailed NPCs. We can use BGDummyPlayer to set the ownership of all the doors and sets we want to prohibit our player from entering.

Create a key called BGCourierKey. Again select an existing key and change the editor id. Edit the cottage door to set its lock status to ‘needs a key' and use this as the key.

We need to add an [[XMarker]] to the interior and the exterior a [[map marker]].

Drop an xmarker or an [[XMarkerHeading]] object inside the cottage and give it a reference name like BgCourierLodgeXMarker.

Now select a MapMarker and drop it just outside the cottage door, in the exterior cell.

It looks a bit like a door teleport marker but is pink rather than yellow.

Edit its details to give it a reference name like BGMCCottageMapMarker

Finally in the name box call it Courier Cottage.

Again this is the name that will appear on the map.

Add the following multi-line response and set conditions to limit it to Hubart and the current stage. First add stage 30 in the stage tab.

 

 

!  TOPIC

|  BGCourier (Courier?)

* She is usually very reliable. But she failed to turn up for our usual meeting.

* She sometimes stays in a small cottage just west of here. I'll mark it on your map.

* Here is a key to get you in. Let me know what you find out.  

| GetIsId BGCptHubart == 1<br>

GetStage BGM001>= 20

| BGCluesFound

|  SetStage BGM001 30

 

 

 

 

And add this to the stage result script

  Player.additem "BGCourierKey" 1

  ShowMap BGMCCottageMapMarker

This activates the map marker and gives the player the key to the cottage.

The Syntax for the [[ShowMap]] Function is

The enableFastTravel is an optional parameter which takes the value 1 if you want to be able to fast travel immediately.

If omitted then you can not fast travel until you have found the location.

Remember we have still to add all those quest targets, and will use the xmarkerheading as a reference for this.

Up till now we have been able to use NPCs to control progression, however now we need to begin to script to do the next bit of progression.

And that seems like a good place to take a break.