[LE] Civil War Modding.

[flatline115]

So some of you may wish to torture yourself as I have and mod the Civil War Questline. I hope to outline some useful functions/information in this post.

 

Faction Enums:

1: Imperial

2: Stormcloak

 

Hold Capital Locations:

 

 

Solitude: SolitudeLocation

Markarth: MarkarthLocation

Morthal: MorthalLocation

Whiterun: WhiterunHoldLocation

Falkreath: FalkreathLocation

Dawnster: DawnstarLocation

Winterhold: WinterholdLocation

Windhelm: WindhelmLocation

Riften: RiftenLocation

 

 

 

Hold Enums:

 

 

0: Unset

1: Haafinger

2: Reach

3: Hjaalmarch

4: Whiterun

5: Falkreath

6: Dawnstar

7: Winterhold

8: Eastmarch

9: Riften

 

 

 

(Hold names were changed to city names where applicable)

Functions:

 

 

Vocab:

Function; This is the the name of the function and its arguments.

Description; This tells you what it does.

Notes; Just some things I think could be noted.

Line: Says where the function starts (so you can add custom functionality)

Function: AddCivilWarAchievment(int whichCivilWarAchivement, Location AssociatedLocation)

Description: (Obviously) Adds civil war achievements via steam.

Notes: 1: For Joining a side 2: For taking a fort in riften/reach 3: Wining the war (Hero of Skyrim)

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Function: modObjectiveByEnemySoldierDeath(Actor DeadSoldier, int AmountToMod, Location Hold)

Description: This is an old function (likely used by CWO) that changes the objective by the amount of soldiers that died.

Notes: This could be used to mod in skirmishes.

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Function: modObjectiveBySabotage(ResourceObjectScript ResourceObject, int AmountToMod)

Description: Another old function (again likely used by CWO) apparently there was the ability to Sabotage and your objective changed via this.

Line: 1,226

Function: modObjectiveByMissionSuccess(Location HoldLocation, int AmountToMod)

Description: Changes the objective with mission success.

Notes: AmountToMod seems to do nothing from looking at the source.

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Function: modCWObjGlobal(GlobalVariable GlobalToModify, float amountToAdd)

Description: Modifies Global Values that are defined in the CWScript.

Line: 1,273

Function: completeCWObj(Location Hold)

Description: Essentially this completes a holds objective

Notes: Useful for finishing a questline up in a hold.

Line: 1,289

Function: failCWObj(Location HoldWhoseObjectiveToFail)

Description: The exact opposite of completeCWOBJ; used by CWO.

Notes: Useful for finishing a questline up in a hold where the player failed.

Line: 1,312

Function: updateObjective(location HoldLocationWhoseObjectiveWeShouldUpdate, bool MarkObjectiveComplete, bool FailObjective, GlobalVariable GlobalToResetDueToFailure)

Description: Marks an objective for the hold (i.e. conquer falkreath) either failed, completed or the initial display of it; does nothing if it is Completed already.

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Function: displayFactionLeaderObjective()

Description: Literally just used to start up Liberation of Skyrim, bro.

Notes: This is and has been useful for myself when setting up a custom introduction to this quest. Of course this would be useful for you if trying to set up a quest as well.

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Function: DisplayHoldObjective()

Description: Basically just sets the objective for a specific hold; is used for the linear system.

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Function: FactionName(int CWFaction)

Description: Gets the factions name

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Function: HoldName(int HoldNumber)

Description: Gets the holds name via the Hold Enum.

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Function: getFaction(int FactionToReturn, bool ReturnNPCFaction)

Description: Gets the NPC/Player faction depending on the perimeters.

Line: 1,526

Function: getPlayerAllegianceFaction(bool ReturnNPCFaction)

Line: 1,550

Function: getPlayerAllegianceEnemyFaction(bool ReturnNPCFaction)

Line: 1,554

Function: getOppositeFactionInt(int FactionWhoseOppositeYouWant)

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Function: GetRikkeOrGalmar(int iFaction)

Description: Returns Rikke or Galmer depending on the parameteres; 1 = Rikke, 2 = Galmer and -1 = Returns which one is in the players faction.

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Function: CheckRikkeGalmarNotAtCampPackageLocationAndMoveIfNeeded(Actor ActorToCheck, Package PackageToCheck, Location LocationToCheck, ObjectReference MarkerToMoveTo)

Line: 1,603

Function: MoveRikkeGalmarToCampIfNeeded(bool CheckIfUnloaded)

Description: Moves Galmar/Rikke to the correct camp; depending on the parameter they may not move if they're loaded in 3D.

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Function: GetCWObjGlobal(int HoldNumber)

Description: Returns a string based on the parameter.

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Function: GetActorAllgeiance(Actor ActorToCheck)

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Function: isImperial(Actor ActorToCheck)

Description: Returns if the actor is in the imperial faction.

Line: 1,747

Function: isSons(Actor ActorToCheck)

Description: Returns if the NPC is in the Stormcloak faction.

Line: 1,752

Function: IsPlayerInMyFaction(Actor ActorToCheck)

Description: Returns if the Player is in the NPC's faction.

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Function: SetPlayerAllegiance(int FactionToJoin, int MakePlayerInvolved)

Description: Sets the players alleginece.

Notes: From the source code this is used during the Jagged Crown as it swaps the Faction Leader alias for either ulfric or tulius.

Line: 1,770

Function: SetPlayerAllegiance(int FactionToJoin, int MakePlayerInvolved)

Description:

Function: SetHoldOwner(Location Hold, int FactionEnum)

Description: Sets the owner of a hold to the faction you specified.

Notes: This just calls the ironically named obsolete function SetHoldOwnerByInt. For most cases this is more accessible for the sub-story you want to tell within each hold however so unless you've custom needs you're better off going with this than SetHoldOwnerByInt.

Function SetHoldOwnerByInt(int Hold, int Faction, bool DiplomaticVict = false)

Description: Another way of setting the hold owner.

Notes: This is useful if you need custom needs given SetHoldOwner just calls this function and thus if you want something specific done for a hold you'll need to edit/add here.

Function: WinHoldAndSetOwner(Location HoldLocationToSet, bool AttackersWon, bool DefendersWon)

Notes: Used to change a Holds Owner after a siege. The downside to using this modding-wise is that it removes

bounty gold which you may not want to be removed depending on what you've modded in.

Function: WinHoldAndSetOwnerKeywordDataOnly

Notes: This is better to be used for dialogue changes. So storywise you could set the keyword data and after the dialogue use SetHoldOwner().

Function: WinHoldOffScreenIfNotDoingCapitalBattles(Location HoldToWin, bool AttackersHaveWon = true, bool DefendersHaveWon = False)

Notes: Just used for fort captures and all that Jazz. Useless modding wise imo.

Function: RemoveGarrisonFromWar(Location LocationToTurnOff)

Notes: This makes a garrison neutral in the conflict between the Imperials and Stormcloaks. This COULD be useful if you want to make a storyline where a hold bounces off from both factions and becomes independent. I assume this is used for diplomatic immunity by bethesda.

Function: AddEnemyFortsToBackToWar(bool ShowDebugMessage = False)

Notes: Used when restarting the war; could be used for a rebreking out of hostilities if doing a second peace treaty.

Function: AddGarrisonBackToWar(Location LocationToTurnOn, int FactionToOwn = 0, bool SkipSetOwnerCall = False)

Notes: See above.

Function: RegisterLocationAttacked(Location HoldLocation, location AttackedLocation, int iFaction = 0)

Notes: Diplomatic Immunity stuff. Doesn't really have any other purpose.

Function: GetWinner(Location LocationOfFinaleBattle, bool AttackerWon = false, bool DefenderWon = False)

Notes: Gets the winner of the last battle(?). Could be used for stories and w/e.

Function: IsActorDefender/Attacker(actor actorToCheck, Location locationOfBattle)

Notes: Checks if an Actor (most likely the player character) was a defender/attacker.

Function: SonsAreAttacking(Location LocationToCheck)

Notes: Self explanatory.

 

 

 

Dialogue:
I swear to god this has to be the most annoying thing about the civil war quests in General (finding all the correct scenes/dialogue). Before I get into all that you should take a note that dialogue views is useless here and you're better off editing from Player Dialogue as this is clearly what Bethesda did and thus it made dialogue views a mess.

 

Ulfric/Tulius:

Quest: CW

Notes: May not contain all dialogue but it does contain a vast majority of it that you will want to look at. CW also contains stages that you'll need when starting CWObj.

 

Editing CWScript:

Open it up in SublimeText/Notepad++/Whatever and then go away at it. From my experience you can not edit the script in CK itself but you can rebuild the script after making changes to it thus negating the lock bethesda put on it.

 

(I will continue later my hands are sore from typing)

Edited September 7, 2015 by flatline115

[simtam]

What are you going to do?

 

I'm working on an additional resolution to civil war, where

- soldiers stop being so aggresive towards the other faction

- this should includeverbal agression as well

- maybe make them enemies of Thalmor faction at that point

- Ulfric and Tullius duel to death at Weynon Stones.

- Korvanjund, if still blocked, gets unblocked

 

I'm not sure if I will force stop running civil war quests at that point, or just leave it as an option to fiddle with.

[flatline115]

What I wanted to do I already finished; I made an alternative solution to keep balgruuf as jarl of whiterun through a diplomatic solution via you convincing him to join the stormcloaks.

[flatline115]

As far as what you're working on; you could use Set/ModReaction for both of the factions to slowly neutralize the aggressiveness. Verbal' aggression is somewhat harder as you've to find the dialogue and edit its conditions to occur individually and with all the greetings and such this could be annoying. Other things like the duel would've to end the quest as immersion is destroyed if you continue fighting the war and then have to siege windhelm/solitude and kill him... Again.

[flatline115]

Added functions to document CWScript's functions fully.

[simtam]

The miscellaneous soldier dialogue is relatively easy, just by making a copy of the soldiers dialogue quest, removing unwanted lines, and bumping up the priority of the new quest.

[flatline115]

Added a lot more functions. Also I was more so referring to the tedious task of editing everything. None of the soldiersdialogue quests actually have any dialogue in there for me tho.

Edited September 7, 2015 by flatline115

[simtam]

It looks a lot easier for me because I've already did it. The hellos, goodbyes, etc, are in "Misc" tab of quest pane in Creation Kit.

[jeyoon]

So theoretically if I created an activator and tied this script to it could i potentially change the hold ownership in Whiterun from Imperial to Stormcloak pre Civil War?

 

Event OnActivate(ObjectReference akActionRef)
SetHoldOwner(WhiterunHoldLocation, int 2)
EndEvent