I have a few question on making a custom Bard.

[dwiss]

Guess its up to you then - if it works - to make a decent tutorial including the new findings then :)

[Naturlich68]

a worthwhile endevour for sure :)

[Force70]

I was wondering. Do you guys think that it's a script that's making the bards sing. Because I typed in bard in the script search and it came up with "BardSongsScript". Do you think that's whats making them sing certain songs? I can post the script so you guys can look at it. I don't really understand all of it.

[dwiss]

Its an entire package - and one part of that package is also scripts. My old mentor always told me: quote"crawl, walk , run - thats the normal evolution". Dont mess with scripts when the rest isnt working yet.

[Naturlich68]

I'm on dwiss's "crawl, walk, run" ladder, somwhere between crawl and walk LOL So I'm very likely no help when it comes to scripts, I'm learning all the time, no doubt as you are Force, but I'm concentraing on what I can do now and learn the harder stuff as I get more confident with the "easy" stuff

[Force70]

Thanks guys. I do agree with the whole "crawl, walk , run" thing. Problem with me is that I usually want to just skip right to "run" even though I know that I can't. Oh well. I'll just have to wait and see what happens.

[Naturlich68]

Well you know Force, we just keep plugging away at it, you'll get there in the end :)

 

For my part, I have managed to get my Bard working in my custom cell!

 

The problem wasn't with the Bard, she was setup right as per this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4r23zAhO0s

 

The video is a start and helps in as far as it goes, but it doesn't cover putting a bard in a custom cell. My problems was I hadn't setup my location properly, to be exact, I hadn't used an XMarkerHeading as a CenterMarker properly, so the changes I made to the location to list it as an inn were ignored.

 

It's possible that others have setup their cells correctly from the start and wont hit my problem, but being a beginner, well, mistakes happen..

 

So, to fix my problem,

 

I had to drop an XMarkerHeading in my cell, and change it's Location Ref Type to "LocationCenterMarker" and hit OK.

Then, in Object Window, go to worldData/Location and find your cells Location Marker, double click it to bring up it's window

Under World Location Marker Ref, click Select Reference

in the popup window you need to select your cell in the Cell dropdown menu, then hit OK. (Dont worry that it doesn't list it on the left, it will show up on the right under Loc Ref Type).

Last thing is under Keywords on the bottom left, make sure you have added LocTypeInn

 

Once you have that all set, and you created a bard as per the video, you should now have a singer in your cell :)

 

Hope this helps you out at least a little m8, or anyone else that has the same issues that I had, and thanks for the thread and dwiss for tips and advice :) Still keeping an eye on your thread though, lets see what other usefull info can come out of it :)

[Force70]

I'm glad that you were able to figure it out. Personally I was just going to put my bard in a existing cell (probably solitude) instead of a new one. The thing that I'm having a hard time with is figuring out how to add new bard songs and then make my bard the only one to sing those songs. But so far I've only found one tutorial for replacing the existing bard songs. But there are a lot of tutorials for replacing the music (like the exploration music and such) with your own music.