Alright I'm trying to make a quest where an actor betrays the player and starts attacking him.

It goes like this: The player accepts the quest and the actor follows him. The player goes into the cave and then walks into a trigger box which enables stage 30 of the quest:

Scriptname STQActivatorScript extends ObjectReference  Quest property quest01 auto Event onActivate(ObjectReference akActionRef)if(quest01.GetStage() == 20)quest01.SetStage(30)endifendevent

Stage 30 completes objective 20 and stops scene01(which is the scene that makes the actor follow the player) and starts scene2(which is where he betrays the player) and enables 2bandits to help him try and kill the player:

SetObjectiveCompleted(20)STQHuntScene01.Stop()STQHuntScene02.Start()Alias_Bandit1.GetReference().Enable()Alias_Bandit2.GetReference().Enable()

When scene 2 starts it removes the faction "DunPlayerAllyFaction" and adds the faction "BanditFaction" to the actor:

STQHunter.AddToFaction(BanditFaction)STQHunter.RemoveFromFaction(DunPlayerAllyFaction)

This is what I have tried:
What I tried at first is adding him to the faction "BanditFaction" through a papyrus script.
Then I tried making him aggressive which also didn't work. This also made him attack various things which ended up making the quest not work.

Then I tried adding him to the faction "DunPlayerAllyFaction" as default then removing said faction and then adding the bandit faction whilst keeping him in very aggressive mode.



And finally here is the file: http://filesmelt.com/dl/StreamQuest.rar
(Just find the interior cell called BleakRockCave. The actor is right outside the cave.)

You should be able to just use

STQHunter.StartCombat(Game.GetPlayer())

hah! I knew I would feel stupid when the solution came up.

Thank you! I will see if it works.

Alright I tried to assign the script to the end of scene 2. It didn't recognize the function "StartCombat".

I tried creating a new stage which would get enabled when the scene is over. But there it wouldn't recognize the function.

I tried assigning it to an actor just to see if it would recognize the function there. And it didn't.


I don't understand whats going on because StartCombat is on the wiki page and everything and I have often used these sorts of functions before without a problem.


The code that gets run at the end of scene 2 looks like this:

GetOwningQuest().SetObjectiveDisplayed(30)Bandit1.StartCombat(Game.GetPlayer())Bandit2.StartCombat(Game.GetPlayer())frederick.StartCombat(Game.GetPlayer())

All properties are ObjectRefrence properties.

You could also put them in a faction, and in the CK set it as friendly to the player so that they arent inherantly hostile. Then, via script, use http://www.creationkit.com/Faction.SetEnemy_(Papyrus) to make their faction hostile towards the player.

StartCombat() is a function from the actor script, so you need to have the bandits declared as actors, not object references. Or you could use casting and do this:

GetOwningQuest().SetObjectiveDisplayed(30)(Bandit1 as Actor).StartCombat(Game.GetPlayer())(Bandit2 as Actor).StartCombat(Game.GetPlayer())(frederick as Actor).StartCombat(Game.GetPlayer())

Ah of course. Thank you.

I have yet to properly understand the fundamentals of papyrus.