I am very new (writing my first script now, but I am a long time programmer in the real world languages) and I am having problems with this.

I want to have a text message displayed on screen when the player enters a room in my cave. Having the message spoken is optional and not necessary.

I am trying the following in one of the ambush triggers from the Warehouse Ambushes interior cell without success:

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Auto State waiting  Event OnTriggerEnter(ObjectReference triggerRef)    Debug.Notification("Hello, World!")    self.Say(TopicToSay)  EndEventEndStateTopic Property TopicToSay  Auto  

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The debug notification is being displayed but I can not get the Say to display or speak anything. I have tried a lot of various options (player, self, etc) with no joy.

Would someone have pity on a new modder and give me a hint how to do this.

TIA

Frank

It may not be possible to make the player say something if that's what your trying, also you would need to have recorded voice for your dialogue or subtitles on to know anything happened.

Xtynct, thank you for you response. I don't care if it is the player or the trigger box, or even if I have to place an invisible NPC in the room. Mainly I want text to show up on screen as a result of the trigger event fired by the player entering the room.

I figured out how to do this in Oblivion a long time ago and have since forgot how that worked, but I do recall I had the ability to have either a line of text or a dialog box show up on screen.

Thanks again,

Frank

http://www.creationkit.com/Message

h4vent,

Thank you for your reply. I saw that while trying to figure this out and could not make any sense out of it. The example given is:


; Display a simple message to the user
HelloWorld.Show()

Apparently "HelloWorld" in that example is an object of class Message?? But, no where can I find an example showing how to instantiate a message class object or how to initialize it??

Can you help with a simple HelloWorld example? I would really appreciate it!

EDITED TO ADD: Thank you very much, I went back to the Creation Kit and last time I looked for a menu/dialog something that would create a message and could not find one, this time I filtered the object panel on Message and looked at ALL and sure enough there were some Messages, so I duplicated one and renamed it and it works. Thank you very much -


Frank

Message Objects are under Miscellaneous in the Object Window.

So, create a Message ... Then, in your Quest script, make that message a Property, (right click script and add a Property, with a type of Message) which is what HelloWorld is, and then you can use the code as written

If you need help with what the heck all these properties and things are, see cipscis' excellent tutorial (which is what the wiki lacks, it assumes you know all about this to start with):

http://www.cipscis.com/skyrim/tutorials/beginners.aspx

Thank you very much, I went back to the Creation Kit and last time I looked for a menu/dialog something that would create a message and could not find one, this time I filtered the object panel on Message and looked at ALL and sure enough there were some Messages, so I duplicated one and renamed it and it works. Thank you very much -

If you wanted the line actually said (like with audio) you could probably just record whatever as a sound/audio file and then have a script play the audio. The say function only works with actors I believe, you could probably use an invisible NPC too, but that just seems like a less elegant solution. Also on top of the Message type, you can also just use Debug.MessageBox("whatever you want shown"), similar to Debug.Notification except that its an actual messagebox that pops up with an 'okay' button.