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No Scripting Quest System
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Submitted by Migrate Wizard on 2018-04-10 04:26.
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2022-03-26 10:41
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beta07
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Title No Scripting Quest System beta07 Author nereng Submitted / Updated 10-08-2008 / 12-05-2008 Category Scripting routines Expansions HOTU-1.69 Format Module and Code Type Type - Quest Giving Includes BioWare Standard Description
Beta07 has a new tutorial: Recue-quest! There are also other improvements, see the version notes for details. We are now nearly out of beta for the SP version, so now I expect to start work on the Knat's db version before christmas!
BETA! This system is very much a work in progress! I am offering it up to anyone interested in helping out, in hopes of getting valuable feedback from beginners and experienced builders alike. Anyone helping out with this can expect to get their names on the credits-list of the final product, and anyone can help, no matter how little or much they know about scripting and using the toolset. Just letting me know what parts of the tutorial you had problems with will be helpful enough. I'll also appreciate help with testing for possible exploits and other types of bugs, and for that matter with proofreading of the tutorials and Readme. Any kind of feedback, really!
This is a system for making quests without the need for any kind of scripting knowledge on the part of the builder at all. All the scripting has been done for you already! If you can read and write, then you can use this!
It works by putting "tokens" (little misc items) in the inventory of the NPC you want to be a questgiver. The OnConversation script on the NPC detects the token(s) when someone tries to talk to the NPC, and starts the special quest-conversation that is associated with that token.
The builder must write variables on the tokens. First of all, the tag of this particular quest. (It's the same tag as used by the journal editor.) Then he must write the actual conversation strings to be used in the conversation, and some facts like how much xp and gold to hand out as reward, number of items (in the case of a fetch quest or courier-quest), number of kills (in a kill-quest), etc. I have tried to make it so that there are no more variables to write than fills one page of the Variables-tab.
A number of things happen automatically. If there's a map pin with the quest-tag + "_PIN" it is activated automatically, if there's an encounter with a tag of quest-tag + "_ENCOUNTER" similarly, if there's a key in the inventory of the quest-giver with tag of quest-tag + "_KEY", the PC gets it at the start of the quest. And so on and so forth!
When the quest is done, the token is destroyed and the NPC will revert to using his own conversation. Unless there is another token in his inventory! Then he has another quest that needs to be done!
The whole idea behind this is to make a system that can be used by the greenest newbie who just can't wrap his mind around scripting. If you're not one of those, then you're probably better off using something else! At least for now. Maybe when the system has matured it will become something useful for more experienced builders when they just need to throw in some side-quests in a hurry.
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Way too late to the party I'm afraid. The author is most likely well gone by now but I just tried this out. It works pretty well and is a totally different way to organise quests, conversations and the journal. An excellent piece of work ! Not sure it's any less work for someone who knows what they are doing but I'm guessing if you don't this could be for you. Text tutorials are pretty detailed and easy to follow. Would have liked to have seen if this could have been developed into something more succinct although maybe that is what Plot Wizard is, but well worth a good vote. A shame it wasn't recognised at the time but at least I appreciate the cleverness now.
If you look at the original web page from the ancient ign vault you will see that it recieved 12 votes back in the day and each one was for 10 out of 10.
TR