How exactly do you make a merchant?

[AmethystDeceiver]

[Barlas]

tried that, npc still doesnt even talk to me. All she does is the basic hello greetings.

[Susurruss]

Things to double-check:

 

1) NPC has 'services' faction

2) NPC has JobMerchantfaction

3) both these factions are set to 0 and not -1 (some existing NPCs have Jobmerchantfaction set to -1)

 

4) The VENDOR tab for this faction has:

VENDOR box checked

A reference (chest) that they draw inventory from

The reference Location (for the chest) is either set at Near Self or Near Reference (in the latter case, the NPC must be near enough to the chest for the sell dialogue to be available)

The vendor has a buy/sell list assigned

Vendor hours are assigned (this is not necessary, but if they are set, you can only get the dialogue during vending hours - obviously!) :)

 

5) On the NPC page, click on the dialogue button and check that the PC has some sort of SERVICES dialogue (starts with 'service')

 

 

Hmmm.. am I forgetting something?

[Macgyver1958]

Did the OP ever figure out the problem? I'm having the same exact issue. I followed the tutorial on creationkit.com step by step, but when I try to talk to my merchant NPC in the game, no dialogue window opens...he just does the standard greeting thing. I then tried doing it like in the video in post 11, but the same thing happened. I can't figure out why the dialogue box won't come up.

[galelyan]

OK so you linked the merchant to the chest, the chest has an inventory, and the merchant greets you but either doesnt allow you to open a show me your wares thing, or has no items to sell.

I had that same problem, and i found that adding items to the merchant's character inventory for some reason activated the chest inventory on him too.

as for the opening a buy/sell tab, i'm not positive how i got that to work, but if your factions are set and everything, you can try just using a copy of an already existing merchant, i used belethor, and change the model and voice.

 

honestly this creation kit is a pain in the ass to use, if something doesn't work i recommend trying an alternate way to do it or just restart what you were doing before.

Edited February 28, 2012 by galelyan

[Blessing01]

Hello i had the same problem and i found out it was the Voice i picked it seems not all the voices carry the same dialogues

 

The video posted on here i seen it and it helped me up to the following.

 

So this is what i picked

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p268/vokus1111/photo1.jpg

Common voice seems to work and not many others.

 

Also make sure this the AI packet is on

 

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p268/vokus1111/photo2.jpg

 

 

hope this helpped

Edited February 28, 2012 by Blessing01