Loop a script until the player is not present. : V

» Mon Nov 19, 2012 9:14 am

I have a quest in which you kill several bandits, thus liberating a small village. The player is thanked and the quest is completed, and the quest is secretly set to a new stage. In that stages fragment, I basically need a script that waits several ingame hours, then disables the dead bandits bodies, IF the player is not there. I know how to make it wait, and disable, but I'm not clear on how to check if the player is there, and how to make it look (Wait again, then check again) if the player is present.

I've never had to set up a loop before, so I need a quick walkthrough. It's my understanding that papyrus now has go to functions and loops and whatnot, which I think are what I need here?

Any pointers are appreciated.

AJV

» Mon Nov 19, 2012 6:02 am

you can't check with "GetPlayerLoc(CellName)" in an if function?
seam to recall i saw something like that in the scripting collection on the crationkit wiki... might just have been me that is tired

» Mon Nov 19, 2012 3:07 am

Looks like I can use http://www.creationkit.com/IsLoaded_-_Location to check if the location, which I'll attach to the village's cell, is loaded. So that part is solved.

» Mon Nov 19, 2012 1:23 pm

Looks like I can use http://www.creationkit.com/IsLoaded_-_Location to check if the location, which I'll attach to the village's cell, is loaded. So that part is solved.

Yay!

» Mon Nov 19, 2012 5:32 am

It's probably worth mentioning that a (non-native) function already exists for just this sort of thing - http://www.creationkit.com/IsNearPlayer_-_ObjectReference.

Spoiler

; Function to know if I'm near the player (whether I can be safely enabled or disabled)bool Function IsNearPlayer()	Actor player = Game.GetPlayer()	Cell targetCell = self.GetParentCell()	Cell playerCell = player.GetParentCell()		if (targetCell != playerCell)		; player and target are in different cells		if (targetCell && targetCell.IsInterior() || playerCell && playerCell.IsInterior())			; in different cells and at least one is an interior			;  -- we can safely enable or disable			return false		else			; both in an exterior -- no means of testing 			;  worldspace at the moment, so this will do.			if (player.GetDistance(self) > 3000)				; pretty darned far away -- safe				return false			else				; too close for comfort				return true			endif		endif	else		; in the same cell -- err on the side of caution		return true	endifendFunction

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» Mon Nov 19, 2012 10:14 am

Kind of a simple question but, does non-native mean it's not in the engine and I'd have to reference another script? I don't need that amount of control, a simple 'is the player within a few cells (I.e. IsLoaded)' function.

The only part I need to figure out now is how to get it to loop until it suceeds.

» Mon Nov 19, 2012 9:02 am

Wait, could I just use http://www.creationkit.com/OnUnload_-_ObjectReference and an http://www.creationkit.com/IsDead_-_Actor check in a script ON the bandits to disable them whenever the player leaves the area and they are unloaded?

» Mon Nov 19, 2012 6:49 pm

Non-native just means the function body is written in Papyrus, instead of being part of the engine. It gets called in exactly the same way as native functions, though.

I'm not sure about http://www.creationkit.com/OnUnload_-_ObjectReference, as I've never used it before. If it doesn't work, though, http://www.creationkit.com/OnCellDetach_-_ObjectReference might do the trick.

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» Mon Nov 19, 2012 7:12 am

Alright I'll try that.

Now, in the script on the bandits, how do I reference the bandit the script is attached to? I though it would be self, but I guess I'm mistaken?

This is the script section;

;once all bandits are dead and unloaded disable themEvent OnCellDetach()   If (FSSQ01.GetStage() >= 10) && ((Self as Actor).IsDead() == 1)	  Self.Disable()   EndIfEndEvent

But I get this error when trying to compile;

(16,40): cannot cast a fssq01banditscript to a actor, types are incompatible

What am I missing here?

» Mon Nov 19, 2012 3:03 pm

You're right about using the "Self" special variable, but it sounds like your script doesn't extend Actor, so it can't be cast to Actor. Perhaps you've extended ObjectReference instead or something? If you've extended ReferenceAlias, then you'll need to use the http://www.creationkit.com/GetReference_-_ReferenceAlias function before casting to Actor.

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» Mon Nov 19, 2012 11:13 am

Ah, but of course! I just changed it to extend Actor instead, as I don't think that will mess up anything else in the script. (Just some variable/quest stuff when they're killed) It compiled now, so this should work! If it doesn't or I have any other issues I'll post again.

Thanks!

» Mon Nov 19, 2012 9:43 am

Probably a bit late, but could you not have used the body cleanup script that some unique actors have? It doesn't actually matter if the actors are unique for that script to work.

» Mon Nov 19, 2012 11:32 am

Oh, probably. It's okay, the bandits already had a script on them for the involved village quests, so I just added this little event segment, which seems to be working.