Quick Script Question

[thewaronandrew]

What is the line "short" for?

 

Example from the Nuka-Cola vending machine script:

 

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scn HD02NukaVending

 

short Button

short NukasOnMe

short GoNukas

 

begin OnActivate

 

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[FutureVisions]

Im just starting to look into scripts myself but i think these "short" lines are checks for the action you are trying to perform (i.e. what you can do and/or if u can do it).

The script u posted here is for the machine thats goes to in tenpennytower suite. Im guessing that this is the script that controls the pop up that appears when u click the machine and lets u add or remove nuka colas.

 

another example of "short" lines is for the megaton bomb script, i think you can get a better idea from it:

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scn MS11BombScript

 

short Button

 

 

short SkillNeeded ;how much explosives skill is needed to interact with the bomb

short SkillNeededtoDisarm ;how much explosives skill is needed to disarm the bomb

short playerSkill

short DoOnce

 

 

short dieRoll

 

short captureButton ;wich button press are we tracking

 

short explodeMe

 

 

short camVar ;used as a condition on VATS death camera

short AnglePlayer

 

float deathtimer

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(these are just the first lines of this particular script)

 

So what i think this script is doing here is:

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short Button (i think this represents clicking the bomb)

 

1st line -- checks how much explosives skill is needed to interact with the bomb

2nd line -- checks how much explosives skill is needed to disarm it

3rd line -- checks how much explosives skill the player has

short DoOnce (im also not sure about what this line means but it reapeats very often on many other scripts, i think its to prevent the script to enter a loop, in this case it'll only perform these checks once)

 

short dieRoll

 

(this, might be the death scenario script in case the player blows up the bomb) the next lines are describing what the game is supposed to do. in this case:

 

you would push a button

blow up

enter VATS death camera mode

and enter a deathtimer (probably for the animation) until load

 

 

 

Again. I might be completly or partially wrong. I have no experience with scripting and this is just my opinion from what i think i understood by looking at some of the scripts.

There are many scripts with notes from the guys who made them that can give you very useful information to understand some of the script lines if u dont have a better source ofc ;)

Everything you'll see behind a ";" on a script is an editor note

[thewaronandrew]

I have a feeling that it is more of a link to another script or something.

 

Because:

 

short GoNukas

 

doesn't make any sense to me.

 

I am trying to figure out how to activate an object, have it remove an object, and add a different object. So far I have the first part down.

 

I can activate the object, it will bring up a menu (dialogue), but when I select the dialogue it just closes and nothing happens.

scn V100purewaterSCRIPT

begin OnActivate;This causes the script to begin when the object is activated

if ( IsActionRef Player == 1 );Makes sure the one committing the action is the player
 if ( Player.GetItemCount NukaColaBottle >= 1 );If you have one or more empty nuka cola bottles
 ShowMessage HD00V100SinkWith;Opens the dialogue box ("drink sink, fill bottles with water, do nothing")
elseif ( Player.GetItemCount NukaColaBottle < 1 );If you have less than one empty nuka cola bottle
 ShowMessage HD00V100SinkWithout;Opens dialogue ("drink sink, do nothing")
endif
endif

end

 

I know you can only have one action per line, too.

[thewaronandrew]

I think short is used to allow a variable to be used in a script. Instead of typing out every time a line of code, you can use the term defined in short insead. A good example from somebody else's script:

 

scn StealthArmour

Begin GameMode

short FusionBats 
short IsStealthAlreadyActive
short Areyousneaking

Set FusionBats to GetItemCount 00033BC6; defines the variable FusionBats as being equal to the number of Fission Batteries in your inventory

Set IsStealthAlreadyActive to player.IsSpellTarget StealthField

Set Areyousneaking to player.IsSneaking;checks to see if you're in stealth mode

  if Areyousneaking == 1 
  if FusionBats >= 1 
  if IsStealthAlreadyActive == 1 
  RemoveItem 00033BC6 1  
  player.CastImmediateOnSelf 0007E474
Endif
Endif 
Endif
End

 

Do you see what I mean? So you set a short, then define it, and you can use the short instead of the long line of code.

 

Can anyone confirm this?

[Hmazter]

short is a variable declaration for numerical values

 

for example the code you posted

Set FusionBats to GetItemCount 00033BC6;

Stores the number of 00033BC6 items in the variable FusionBats.

[thewaronandrew]

So using that code, if I have 3 Fission Batteries (defined by FusionBats), whenever I use the code FusionBats it will represent the 3 Fission Batteries I have?

 

So what is "short areyousneaking" for then? And what about short count, short gonuka, and short button?

[Hmazter]

yeah, but it will not represent the specific fission batteries only the value "3" is stored.

 

in Short areyousneaking its probably stored 1 if you are sneaking and 0 if you are not sneaking to keep track of the players sneak status.

 

Short can only store numerical values.

[thewaronandrew]

I get what you are saying, but I don't fully understand how to use it.

 

I will have to play around with it some more.

[Hmazter]

okay the name you put after the short statement for example FusionBats will contain a numerical value that you can store for later use for example check if the player has enough batteries to finish a quest or something like that.

You can also use it for storing a 1 if the player has spoken to a certain person or done a certain thing and that changes the outcome of a talk with a NPC.

[thewaronandrew]

I am still trying to figure out gonuka in the nuka cola vending machine script. It never defines what gonuka is. All it does is set gonuka to 1, 2, or 0. What is being set to 1, 2, or 0?