Quests and Scripts Modding

[SirBeasty]

I have a few questions about scripting in papyrus and this being handled by a quest.

 

First, I want to know how often a script may stop running if it is being told to loop until a requirement is met. I am trying to create a scripted quest that will add buffs to the player when they are doing certain things, like sneaking or fighting. The problem is, I am not sure how to have the quest wait until a requirement is fulfilled, where it will then provide a buff, without creating a while loop that runs until it is told to move onto the next stage.

I looked at script fragments, but I believe that script fragments only run at the start of a quest stage and not at any other time.

 

Second, I am having a problem with repeatable stages. Currently, I tell my script to update to a certain quest stage when the player picks up an item, and it should revert to a previous stage when the player drops the item, but this is not happening and is instead staying on the one stage.

 

Third, I am having trouble getting reference aliases to work for the quests.

 

Thank you for all your help.

Edited April 12, 2018 by SirBeasty

[Rigmor]

 

 

Second, I am having a problem with repeatable stages. Currently, I tell my script to update to a certain quest stage when the player picks up an item, and it should revert to a previous stage when the player drops the item, but this is not happening and is instead staying on the one stage.

You have to reset the quest on dropping the object and set the stage again to the one you want. I would make a new quest to handle this, so when he picks it up, you actvate the quest with the perk or buff, and if he drops it, you reset that quest to 0 (with nothing in the papyrus box, like shelving the buff. like turning a light switch on and off, without messing with your main quest.. It might sound a bit confusing, but going backwards and forwards on a single same quest, resetting, setstaging can get messy on loading and reloading saves. It does for me.

[SirBeasty]

I created a new quest, and I have gotten that one to start that will handle the other quest. However, the only way I could start the one quest was to attach the script to the bast object rather than the reference alias. I was wondering how to can attach it to the reference alias so that I can have the script inside the quest attached to the alias. Also, I cannot get the one quest to change the current quest stage of the other.

 

This is the script attached to the handling quest:

 

Scriptname SirBeastDaedricGemStartUp extends Quest

;------Variables

Quest Property DaedricGhostBoon Auto

;------Events

Function DaedricGemBoonStartUp()

DaedricGhostBoon.Start()

DaedricGhostBoon.SetStage(130)

EndFunction

The function is then fired by a quest fragment.

This script is attached to the object:

Scriptname SirBeastDaedricGemScript extends ObjectReference

;----Variables

ReferenceAlias Property XMarker Auto

Actor Property Player Auto

Quest Property DaedricGemStartUp Auto

;----Events

Event OnContainerChanged(ObjectReference akNewContainer, ObjectReference akOldContainer)

If(akNewContainer == Player)

DaedricGemStartUp.SetStage(10)

debug.trace("Item picked up and perk added.")

EndIf

EndEvent

And this script is attached to the main quest. I will build the functions and fire them depending on which stage the quest is on:

Scriptname SirBeastEviriBoonQuestScript extends Quest

import utility

;--------Variables------

MiscObject Property GhostGem Auto

Actor Property Player Auto

Quest Property EviriBoonQuest Auto

Int Property EviriBoonStage Auto

Int Property Random Auto

Int Property coin Auto

SPELL Property AttackBuff Auto

SPELL Property DefenseBuff Auto

SPELL Property ElementResist Auto

SPELL Property CarryWeight Auto

SPELL Property CombatBuff Auto

SPELL Property CraftBuff Auto

SPELL Property SpeechBuff Auto

SPELL Property SpellBuff Auto

SPELL Property TheftBuff Auto

SPELL Property LastResort Auto

SPELL Property VitalityBuff Auto

SPELL Property ParalysisArea Auto

;----Events

Function EviriBoonFunction()

EviriBoonStage = EviriBoonQuest.getStage()

if EviriBoonStage == 20

debug.trace("Quest has started")

coin = 1

;While coin == 1

checkForCoin()

;EndWhile

EndIf

EndFunction

function ControlFunction()

;utility.wait(3)

random = utility.randomint(1, 5)

if random == 1

Debug.trace("Perk 1 was added")

elseif random == 2

Debug.trace("Perk 2 was added")

elseif random == 3

Debug.trace("Perk 3 was added")

elseif random == 4

Debug.trace("Perk 4 was added")

elseif random == 5

Debug.trace("Perk 5 was added")

else

Debug.trace("No perk was added")

EndIf

EndFunction

function CheckForCoin()

if(Player.GetItemCount(GhostGem) == 0)

coin = 0

EndIf

EndFunction

function AddAttackBuffFunction()

EndFunction

function AddDefenseBuffFunction()

EndFunction

function AddElementResistFunction()

EndFunction

function AddCarryWeightFunction()

EndFunction

function AddCombatBuffFunction()

EndFunction

function AddCraftBuffFunction()

EndFunction

function AddSpeechBuffFunction()

EndFunction

function AddSpellBuffFunction()

EndFunction

function AddTheftBuffFunction()

EndFunction

function CastLastResortFunction()

EndFunction

function AddVitalityBuffFunction()

EndFunction

function CastParalysisAreaFunction()

EndFunction

[SirBeasty]

Bump for all the other problems.

Edited April 17, 2018 by SirBeasty