Text replacement

[dizietemblesssma]

Is there any difference between Skyrim and Fallout4 in using aliases in messages i.e.

<Alias=somereferencealias>

to insert the name of the reference alias?

I have the quest chosen in the message dialogue and the alias has 'stores text' etc.

 

I know the reference is being filled from debug messages, but the messagebox still displays [...] where the name should be.

 

diziet

[pepperman35]

I believe <Alias=somereferencealias> is correct. When I used the technique on a mod in the past, I followed Seddon tutorial Fallout 4 Creation Kit Tutorial - Player's name appears in game

and got it to display okay.

 

 

 

[hereami]

May depend on a particular object sometimes. For example, i have a mod which introduces settlers names, and when a named settler is used by a label message with regular <Alias=alias_name> statement, then his name appears as [...].

 

Might try <Alias.CurrentName=alias_name> .

Edited August 29, 2022 by hereami

[dizietemblesssma]

I'm using the alias in the message text:

https://i.imgur.com/WlKlowm.png

 

and the quest alias looks like:

https://i.imgur.com/9it0j6W.png

 

I have also tried using Alias.CurrentName

 

I have debug.trace logs that show the aliasref is filled before the question (message) is shown, so I am at a loss:)

 

diziet

[hereami]

Can't see anything wrong there. Try another actor or player, or a 100% untouched by mods object with name.

[LarannKiar]

Is the "Run Once" flag on the Quest Data tab unchecked? I don't know why but it sometimes does the trick for messages which are supposed to display names of alias references..

 

Did you add the alias to the quest before you first loaded the mod? As far as I remember, the save game needs to have uninitialized quest instance data for text replacements.

[dizietemblesssma]

Thanks for making me check, all this time I thought I was testing on an early save that had seen no mods - just before speaking to codsworth for the first time - but in fact Vortex tells me the save had seen an early version of the mod. Starting afresh and now the text replacement is working!

 

diziet