I am writing a quest, and would like to be able to use a script fragment to remove 500 gold from the player in one of the dialogue responses. Barring that, I would at least like to know the correct way to define a new script to call in the response.

I see some promising information http://www.creationkit.com/RemoveItem_-_ObjectReference, but I am unclear as to how exactly to set this up in a new script. Can someone help please?

This explain exactly how to do it. Scroll down to the part about Giving the Amulet to B http://www.creationkit.com/Bethesda_Tutorial_Quest_Loose_Ends

Hope this helps

Thank you Emma. http://www.creationkit.com/Bethesda_Tutorial_Quest_Loose_Ends#Giving_the_Amulet_to_Bendu

Game.GetPlayer().RemoveItem(Gold001, 500)

appears slightly different than http://www.creationkit.com/RemoveItem_-_ObjectReference

Game.GetPlayer().RemoveItem(GoldBase, 500)

[both edited to remove 500 gold, for my purposes]. I cannot get either of them to work as http://www.creationkit.com/Bethesda_Tutorial_Dialogue#Scripting_Dialogue. This is the compile result I get in both cases:

Starting 1 compile threads for 1 files...Compiling "TIF__02001DA8"...d:\steam\steamapps\common\skyrim\Data\Scripts\Source\temp\TIF__02001DA8.psc(18,28): variable Gold001 is undefinedNo output generated for TIF__02001DA8, compilation failed.Batch compile of 1 files finished. 0 succeeded, 1 failed.Failed on TIF__02001DA8

I assume I must create a new script, but I am unsure as to how to set it up. After clicking http://www.creationkit.com/Bethesda_Tutorial_Basic_Quest_Scripting#Adding_Scripts I need to define script properties, such as "Type," "Object," etc. This is where I am unsure, since the tutorial given in the Wiki focuses on one limited example.

Sorry to bother, but would you mind clarifying these details please? I just don't know what all of those mean. This is part of a quest, so I would think I could use the "Quest" property, but then again, this is an object (gold) transaction, so I could also assume this would be an Object Reference, and so on.

So my latest attempts to make this work involved:

Script contentsScriptname PayReparations extends Quest  MiscObject Property Gold  Auto  Game.GetPlayer().RemoveItem(GoldBase, 500)Compiler output:Starting 1 compile threads for 1 files...Compiling "PayReparations"...d:\steam\steamapps\common\skyrim\Data\Scripts\Source\temp\PayReparations.psc(5,4): no viable alternative at input '.'No output generated for PayReparations, compilation failed.Batch compile of 1 files finished. 0 succeeded, 1 failed.Failed on PayReparations

And

Script contentsScriptname PayReparations extends Quest  MiscObject Property Gold  Auto  Game.GetPlayer().RemoveItem(Gold001, 500)Compiler output:Starting 1 compile threads for 1 files...Compiling "PayReparations"...d:\steam\steamapps\common\skyrim\Data\Scripts\Source\temp\PayReparations.psc(5,4): no viable alternative at input '.'No output generated for PayReparations, compilation failed.Batch compile of 1 files finished. 0 succeeded, 1 failed.Failed on PayReparations

Both failures, in other words.

When you're working on objects that have script fragments (topic infos for instance), you don't need to do "Add Script" - in fact you shouldn't. Just type something into the fragment box (like a comment), let it compile, and you'll see that it creates a script for you. Then you can add properties to that fragment - in your case, you need to add a MiscItem property to Gold001, which you can then reference in your script.

Well actually that is what I originally tried to do. Pasting in either

Game.GetPlayer().RemoveItem(GoldBase, 500)

or

Game.GetPlayer().RemoveItem(Gold_001, 500)

failed to compile. I tried several other iterations of the code as well ("Gold" instead of "GoldBase" or "Gold_001," etc.), to no avail.


By this, do you mean adding in

MiscObject Property Gold  Auto

into the script fragment? If not, would you mind giving me an example of what you mean? I'm not sure of the proper syntax of these commands, when used in the script fragments window.

For fragments (specifically) add the Property with the Properties button next to the TIF_blahblah script. Use MiscObject. Not important what it's called as long as it points to Gold001.

Note you might need to remove all references to Gold first in the script first to get it to compile. You might also need to rename the TIF script by going to the Advanced tab for properties to be add-able.

I'll put this in the CK wiki later since its a common problem.

click on the script name in the little box to the right of the papyrus fragments and click on edit properties, in the window that pops up click add property, in the type field select miscobject, in the name field enter gold001, the rest can be left blank since you are using the name of an item that already exists

and just in case (may have no relevance to you), something i noticed while testing out my own fragments was that i kept receiving an error on a line that i had already removed, i can only guess it's from scripts being so detached from the creation kit because to get a new script to work i had to manually delete the script files in the data folder

Try renaming the script from the Dialog window. Sometimes that works.