Question on Quest Scripts

[ozziefire]

Do quest scripts continue to calculate while sleping and waiting? I suspect so, but just wanting confirmation from anyone who knows :)

[Korodic]

hmm... I am not 100% certain but i almost wanna say no... because when you use "begin gamemode" you are looking at only game-time (I think) and there are other terms associated with begin that deal with you while you are in you inventory.

[rickerhk]

If you have a Begin Menumode block in the quest script, that section will run any time you are menu mode. You can have both types of blocks in a quest script. You can even narrow down the type of menu mode you want to deal with:

 

scn MYQuestscript

BEGIN GameMode
; do gamemode stuff
END

BEGIN MenuMode
if (MenuMode 1012) ;sleep/wait
	;Do stuff
endif

if (MenuMode 1002)	;Inventory
	;Do other stuff
endif
END

[Glenstorm]

To add on to above posts, regular quest scripts don't do anything while waiting/sleeping (unless using the MenuMode thing, but that is not really useful or required). An NPC with a dialogue package can wake you up if the package activated before you went to sleep.

 

GameDaysPassed variable is updated accordingly while you sleep/wait so use this in your quest scripts for checking wait time. Like wait 3 days for the next objective and such.