How do I have a quest become avalible a few day after finishing a diff

[Saxxon91]

Question's in the title, basically i have two quests done that you get from the same person. I want to have the second one become avalible a few days after finishing the first, I've tried looking into it myself but to be honest I don't really know where to start. If anyone can help me out it would be greatly appreciated.

 

And I made the title to long... Wonderful!

Edited March 22, 2013 by Saxxon91

[nonplusultra]

create a third quest for a script, there you have to use a variable and the gamedayspassed global

[Saxxon91]

I honestly have no Idea how to use GameDaysPassed... If it's not too much trouble can I see an example of how it's used, or at least point me to an example of where it's used in the game.

[llamaRCA]

create a third quest for a script, there you have to use a variable and the gamedayspassed global

 

It doesn't have to be a third quest. You can do the scripting in the second quest script.

 

@Saxxon - when you finish the first quest start a timer that goes for however many days you need it to. Like nonplusultra says you'll want to use gamedayspassed.

 

I'll give you an example of what I've done for one of my quests. I want a quest to wait for seven days before it starts. The first bit is in the stage results script of a quest. It runs when I set stage in a dialogue results script. The second bit is in the quest script for the quest I'm delaying. I've declared my variables there and the timer runs in gamemode and it will, in this specific case, add a dialogue topic and increment the variable for me after seven days. You want to do something else there, but I've left it as is so you can see what I've done.

 

 

 

In the Stage results script of the quest:

 

Set AWillowWeddingQuest.WannaWedding to 1
Set AWillowWeddingQuest.DaysTimer to GameDaysPassed
 

 

 

In the quest script:

 

 

 

;;;;Delay between end of AWLP quest and beginning of wedding quest
If WannaWedding == 1
If GameDaysPassed - DaysTimer >= 7
AddTopic AWDWQIntroPresent
Set WannaWedding to 2
endif 
endif

(Okay, what's the point of putting it in the code box if it wipes out my indenting?) This is the scripting for the timer. After seven days, for this example, some stuff happens. Where I've done AddTopic and Set my variable to 2 you'd start your quest and do whatever else you want to do.

 

:smile: llama

[nonplusultra]

Told him about a third quest, because up to the size of the mod, you'll need a generic quest anyway.

 

So put the following script in a generic quest or the second quest

 

 

scn scriptname

short stage
float cday

begin GameMode

if stage == 0
if getquestcompleted firstquest
set cday to gamedayspassed + 3 ; change the number to the days that shall pass before doing the action
set stage to 1
endif
endif

if stage == 1
if gamedayspassed > cday
setstage secondquest 10
set stage to 2
endif
endif

end
 

[Saxxon91]

Thanks guys, I've got it working now :biggrin:

[joshua121]

Thank you nonplustra. This is exactly what I wanted to know too. I will have to credit you in my mod because you just made my ambush script possible. You rock.