Enabling disabling objects with scrips in quest?

[Kurzusseus]

Hello I'm working on a mod and I'm having a dragon give a quest. I want him to then fly away after telling you

what to do and he is disabled as to prevent the character from following him to an area nearby and waiting there

doing nothing.

 

Currently he is disabled as I want him to be until the quest is started. In the quest stages, how can I enable, disable and object?

 

I thought it was like the Geck or Geck NV edition code below.

DragonRef.Enable
DragonRef.Disable

But that is not the case, how can I disable and enable an object or npc using quest stage papyrus?

 

(yes I'm aware of my typo on scripts, major accident.)

Edited March 31, 2014 by FalloutZaxus

[IsharaMeradin]

Not knowing anything about Geck scripting (so no idea what the typo you are talking about would be), the first thing that is missing are the parenthesis "()" after both Enable and Disable. The other thing is that both functions are on the ObjectReference script and you are trying to run it with a ReferenceAlias (I'm assuming a reference alias since you are talking about it taking place within a quest and controlled by the quest).

 

Considering all that you might want to try the following:

(DragonRef.GetReference()).Enable()
 
(DragonRef.GetReference()).Disable()

[Kurzusseus]

Thank you. this appeared to work. I'll test it in game when I'm ready.

May I ask one final question?

 

How can I link 1 quest stage from another? The idea is to automatically start this quest

after completing unbound.

 

I figured (GetQuest QuestID setstage (5)()) woulld work, but it didn't.

 

(p.s the typo is in the title of this question itself. I put Enabling Disabling Objects with Scrips in Quest)

 

 

[IsharaMeradin]

Without editing the Unbound quest, I think it could be something like... UNTESTED

 

On a new quest that is start game enabled, assign a player alias and add the following

Quest Property UnboundQuest Auto 
{Assign the Unbound Quest here should be MQ101 but I will leave room for error}
Quest Property YourRealQuest Auto
{Assign the quest you want to take place after MQ101}
 
Event OnInit()
If QuestCheck() == false
RegisterForUpdate(60)
;calls for a 60 second real time update
EndIf
EndEvent
 
Event OnUpdate()
If QuestCheck() == false
RegisterForUpdate(60)
;Keep repeating the update call as long as the function returns false
EndIf
EndEvent
 
bool Function QuestCheck()
bool result = false
If UnboundQuest.GetStage() >= 900 
;unbound itself is not quite over or could be over and the player has escaped everything and is free to do as they wish
YourRealQuest.Start()
result = true
EndIf
return result
EndFunction

Then on a script assigned to your real quest add the following

Quest Property TheEnablingQuest Auto
{Assign the start game enabled quest here}
Event OnInit()
TheEnablingQuest.Stop()
EndEvent

 

However, checking for Unbound to be finished can cause issues with alternate start type of mods. Meaning those users may not get the quest till much later. If that is not an issue, then everything is fine. If it is an issue, then some kind of work around would be needed for those users.

 

There may be other methods to perform the same thing. Hopefully, some may come along and share them.

[Kurzusseus]

Ok thanks for the post. I'll try and test these scripts to see if they work.

I'm new to scripting on the creation kit, but on the geck creation kit scripting was much much easier

so I kinda know what I'm working with here.

 

I kinda had a work around for those who don't have Unbound completed with an alternative start.

I planned to put a book that simply starts the quest. So it shouldn't be too hard to add a script function to make the quest

start when reading the book.

[Kurzusseus]

just test it and I got a failure

here is the information I put in a new script added to a new quest made to start my quest.

 

Quest Property MQ101 Auto 

Quest Property 001Curioussense Auto



Event OnInit()
If QuestCheck() == false
RegisterForUpdate(60)
;calls for a 60 second real time update
EndIf
EndEvent


Event OnUpdate()
If QuestCheck() == false
RegisterForUpdate(60)
;Keep repeating the update call as long as the function returns false
EndIf
EndEvent
bool Function QuestCheck()
bool result = false
If MQ101.GetStage() >= 900 
;unbound itself is not quite over or could be over and the player has escaped everything and is free to do as they wish
001Curioussense.Start()
result = true
EndIf
return result
EndFunction

this is the error I get.

bool Function QuestCheck()

bool result = false

If MQ101.GetStage() >= 900

;unbound itself is not quite over or could be over and the player has escaped everything and is free to do as they wish

001Curioussense.Start()

result = true

EndIf

return result

EndFunction

 

Starting 1 compile threads for 1 files...

Compiling "newscript001"...

C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\skyrim\Data\Scripts\Source\temp\newscript001.psc(5,15): no viable alternative at input '001'

C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\skyrim\Data\Scripts\Source\temp\newscript001.psc(5,35): mismatched input '\\r\\n' expecting STATE

C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\skyrim\Data\Scripts\Source\temp\newscript001.psc(26,3): required (...)+ loop did not match anything at input 'Curioussense'

No output generated for newscript001, compilation failed.

Batch compile of 1 files finished. 0 succeeded, 1 failed.

Failed on newscript001

*edit I think I fixed it. Turns out I forgot about setting the property ;)

Edited March 31, 2014 by FalloutZaxus

[IsharaMeradin]

Setting the property would not solve the posted compiler error. That error is directly related to the property variable name that starts with a number.

I, too, have had issues with variable names that started with a number. Numbers trailing a variable name have not had issues.

 

Example:

 

001Something <== has given me issues

Something001 <== has not given me issues

 

Also note, property names do not need to match the names of the objects or other records that will fill the property. That is only a feature that allows you to use the auto-fill button. If you know what needs to be there you can use a variable name that makes readable sense.

[Kurzusseus]

K thanks for all your help. I got the script compiled successfully now without problems.

I noticed like you said about the problem starting with 001. I switched it around

and everything worked in the end.

 

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ANSWERED:

 

I like putting that so others can see in bright color that they need not post anymore if you know what I mean. :laugh:

Edited April 1, 2014 by FalloutZaxus

[rmm200]

Added in error

Edited April 11, 2015 by rmm200