Help: Adding Lines To Conversation, Prisoner Conversation

[Grant Hammerhoof]

Hullo! As this is my first topic/post on these here groovy-lookin' forums, I guess I might as well introduce myself a bit. Name's Grant; 'Hammerhoof' ain't obviously my last name, it's just a nickname that I use for my internet self, heh. I enjoy spending a bit of time playing Oblivion and Battlefield 2, though not Battlefield 2 so much recently, as this computer can't handle it; however Oblivion runs at lowest settings with a good 5-20 FPS, so it works for me. Anyway, there's 'a bit' of an introduction. On to the main point of this here thread.

 

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I've gone about making a custom race, and I'm wanting to make a short conversation with 'Valen Dreth', the Dark Elf across from your cell at the beginnin' of the game. In short, I want to do nothin' more than make Dreth do his usual abuse towards the player's race, but I want him to acknowledge my custom race as one of the default ones, albeit a modification in the lines spoken. Here's a bit more info:

 

- Custom race is a modified version of the Kajiit race, basically making them a bit bigger and more imposing. EditorID is 'KajiitBig' for simplicity.

- I'm wanting Dreth to react to this new race as a normal Kajiit, and possibly add a line from Dreth's Nord taunting: ''And those big muscles? They're going to waste away. When the end comes, you won't even have the strength to cry for your mother," before the line which ends the conversation.

 

In short, I'm wanting Dreth to say this:

 

Wake up, kitty kitty. That's it. There's a rat in my cell, Khajiit. A fat, tasty rat. Does the kitty want it? Is the kitty hungry?

 

You'd better take whatever you can get in here, Khajiit. They don't feed the new prisoners. Didn't you know that?

 

And those big muscles? They're going to waste away. When the end comes, you won't even have the strength to cry for your mother.

 

First they starve you. Then they beat you. Then, if you're lucky, they kill you. That's right. You're going to die in here!

 

However that's four lines of conversation, and for all the other races Dreth only says three lines, and I'm thinking his script kills the conversation after the third line has been spoken; I say I think because scripting has never been my strong point in anything, heh.

 

Here's Valen Dreth's script for easy reference.

 scn ValenDrethScript

float timer
short talk
short lastStage

begin gamemode
if timer > 0 
	set timer to timer - getsecondspassed
elseif talk == 1
	set lastStage to CharacterGen.tauntStage
	set timer to SayTo player, CharGenTaunt2 1
	if getstage characterGen == 9
		set characterGen.convTimer to timer - .5
		if characterGen.debug == 1
			message "DEBUG: Valen Dreth last info, convTimer to %.2f", characterGen.convTimer
		endif
	endif
; pause briefly between taunt stages
	if lastStage< CharacterGen.tauntStage
		set timer to timer + 10
	endif
endif

if talk == 0
	if getstage charactergen == 6 && CGValenDrethTauntMarker.getdistance player < 610 && getstagedone MQ01 10 == 1
		set talk to 1
		evp
	endif
endif

if talk == 2 && timer <= 0
	set talk to 3
	evp
endif

end

begin onHit player
stopcombat
if getav health < 15
	forceav health 15
endif
end

 

 

 

I probably could have explained all this better if I knew a bit more about scripting an conversations within Oblivion, but my knowledge is fairly limited, so I went ahead and did this up to see if I could at least get some pointers. I'm just tryin' to get Dreth to acknowledge my custom race and say a forth line.

 

Anywho, thanks for takin' a look!!

 

 

*I've been on another forum for the past while that doesn't have the Search function enabled; completely forgot that it might work here! Anyway, I think I might be able to solve the making Dreth acknowledge my race as a Kajiit, but is there any way to add that forth line I'm wanting him to say?

[Vagrant0]

There's a reason why there's a single customracefix mod that makes him catch all. The reason is because any change to Dreth would conflict with any other change to Dreth, creating more trouble than its worth considdering that all you'd get from it is a single line of dialogue.

 

But to make him say something, you'd need to edit his dialogue so that CharGenTaunt2 has an entry with conditions which point to the player being that specific race/gender. As for making the voice be there, that would probably require ALOT more trouble than this is worth. Recording or even re-using voiced dialogue isn't easy, or suggested for newer modders. Changing a critical NPC like this is also a bad idea no matter how skilled you may be at modding since it will certainly interfere with most of the other race mods.

[Grant Hammerhoof]

Ahh well. The Construction Set just has such an easy-to-use look to it I thought there might be some way to get it all to work out, heheh.

 

Oh well. Thanks for the reply though!! Guess I'll just have to content myself with being a regular Kajiit, at least until a Minotaur race comes out in 2016, heh. And I use the CustomRaceFix modification if ya've got any doubts, just wondered if I could, well, do all that stuff I mentioned in my questions, heh.

 

Thanks again though. http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b165/grant_hammerhoof/Smilies/Cow_Tongue.gif