Quest making help

[Rolinor]

Okay, well I need help doing some basic quest making. I have created a character and the dialogue, he has everything he needs but I don't understand how to script this or well do a lot. What I want to happen is the actor says his dialogue then immediately attacks the player, after he's killed he has a key on his person for the character to loot from him. I want talking to him to start the quest and picking up the key to end it... Can someone help?

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[David Brasher]

On the last dialog topic used in talking to the NPC before he attacks you, you would place a script Papyrus fragment sort of like this:

 

StartCombat(Game.GetPlayer())

 

Talking to him to start the quest would use a Papyrus fragment like this on the proper dialog info:

 

GetOwningQuest().SetStage(5)

 

 

Picking up the key to end the quest would involve putting a script sort of like this on the key:

 

Quest Property GSQ01  Auto  

Event OnContainerChanged(ObjectReference newContainer, ObjectReference oldContainer)
if (newContainer == Game.GetPlayer())
	GSQ01.SetStage(30)
endif
EndEvent

 

Source of script: Quest-Making Tutorial

[Rolinor]

Thanks :), but for some reason I can't get the combat script to work.

[gasti89]

I think you should do like this:

 

- go to "quest aliases" tab, right click and add a new alias ---> check "unique actor" and in the dropdown select your NPC (NOTE: your NPC should be tagged as "unique" when creating him) ---> name it myNPC ---> click ok

 

- go to the last dialogue from the NPC and write this papyrus fragment: GetOwningQuest().SetStage(x) where x is the next stage for the quest

 

- now go to "quest stages tab", click on the x stage you wrote in the dialogue fragment and write this papyrus fragment (you have to 1st add a new quest item by right clicking ---> new on the "quest item" window): Alias_myNPC.GetReference().StartCombat(Game.GetPlayer())

 

This should make it work