Scripting help

[Arturun]

Hello again!

This isn't exactly MeMod-realted, per se, but I figured with all that ground-breaking work you guys did with the temp, food, etc, maybe you'd know.

 

Does anyone have any ideas on how to check what the Player's class is in a script? It's been a while since I scripted for Morrowind, and I'm very confused and lost. I'd also like to know how to check the player's race if I'm using only hand-made races. i.e. no bretons, etc. I'm trying to make a Total Conversion based upon a world created almost entirely by a friend and I (more details later, if anyone's interested). I'd like to have separate starting points, storylines, restrictions, etc.

 

So, in recap, here's what I need, and if you guys can't help me, can you point me in the direction of someone who can or somewhere better to ask:

 

1. A way to check a player's class within a script

2. A way to check a player's race within a script when using non-standard races.

3. maybe more as I go along, possibly some issues with inventory encumbrance

 

Thanks,

~Arturun

[Morgoth]

1. Don't think that there is such a function, with the prolem that you have a huuuge number of possible classes with an even greater number of names one can make up for them.

 

2. GetPCRace [RaceID] returns 1 or 0 depending on whether the PC belongs to that race or not. Replace [RaceID] by the ID you have specified during the creation of your race.

 

3. You'll probably find more helpful people in the Morrowind Plug-ins/Help section -> Moving this thread there.

[Arturun]

Thanks for the help, Morgoth. But as to your comment about the possibilities of huge numbers of classes, here was my plan:

 

You choose a class. Somehow I check what class that is (dialogue has something about PCclass, I think, maybe I could use a dialogue-script combo, like the MEMod mechanics). Then, based upon that class and your race, you start in a preset location with certain items. If you use a class or race I didn't make, there'd be a 'default' location with very general things.

 

So if anyone else would like to take a stab at this problem, I'd be very grateful.

 

And thank you for moving this for me Morgoth, by the way. I wasn't sure where to put it, so I tried MEMod since they had done some dialogue-script combos from what I've seen in the released mechanics. Man it's hard to find a moved topic :P There should be an email or something to the author saying where it's been moved.

 

Thanks in advance for any more help

~Arturun

[Abramul]

I know there's a dialogue function that returns player's class, what happens if you use that?

[Arturun]

That was my plan. I just haven't figured out how to connect it to my script yet. I haven't scripted in over a year, so I'm totally lost again. I just took C++ in school, and the teacher was clueless. So I didn't learn really anything helpful of C++, and it's just similar enough to MW scripting that I'm very confused.

[Arturun]

Does anyone know? Perhaps someone from MEMod would know, as they did similar work. If anyone can help, it would be most appreciated.

 

~Arturun