I want to have a secret recipe for a type of food. (specifically beer for my brewery) At the moment I have created the recipe in the CK but it shows up in the game straight away.

Is there any way to add the recipe to the food crafting menu after picking up a note for example?

have the recipe note trigger a quest onRead

it doesnt have to be a physical "quest" for the player. you just need a quest object to hold your data


example:

Event OnRead()
BeerQuest.SetStage(10)
EndEvent



and on your recipe put a condition:

GetStage BeerQuest 10 == 1

Very handy, thanks for the quick reply.

I'm having a little trouble setting this up. Specifically the Quest Object as I only have a very basic experience of it so far.

I've set up a new quest with the following settings in the first tab

http://i.imgur.com/Z7ZCW.png

There are 3 stages 0, 10 and 20. I've altered nothing else in the quest.

The rest if fine as far as I can work out.

I have the note set up using the defaultOnReadSetQuestStage script with its properties linking to my quest and stage 20

Scriptname DefaultOnReadSetQuestStage extends ReferenceAlias  int Property myStage  Auto  Quest Property myQuest  Auto  event onRead()    myQuest.setStage(myStage)endEvent

The actual recipe is also set up although I'm a little unsure if it's correct.

There are 2 stage based condition functions, one is GetStage (this only allows me to enter the quest) the other is GetStageDone (which will allow me to enter the quest and the stage.)

At the moment it's set to getStageDone myBeerQuest 10 == 1

I've tested it in game. I'm unable to make the recipe by default which is a start but I read the note and nothing happens.

I've just tried the quest tutorial in the CK wiki but it doesn't help much. Is there anything similar in game I can rip apart to see how it works?

after you read the note, open up the console and type getstage nameofyourquest

and see what value it returns. if it returns 0 something is wrong with your quest setup


also on your quest stages, make sure you have at least an EMPTY entry in the log entry. the quest stage might not register if there is nothing. right click in the log entry box and select New.


one other thing i would suggest is to have your condition use GetStage instead of GetStageDone. and set the value to > 0 instead of == 1

Thanks for your help on this Amethyst. Your advice worked perfectly along with changing the script used to the "defaultOnReadSetQuestStageNotAlias" version. I'll probably customise it a bit so the player gets a message informing them they have learned it.

Now then... on to making a new type of crafting station

As an alternative, (and posting here really for those who don't want it as part of a quest), you can set as a condition in the recipe that checks for an item in your inventory.

In essence this works as follows:

Your character picks up an item, eg a note detailing the recipe, named MySecretRecipe.
The Constructible Object recipe then has the following condition

S GetItemCount MySecretRecipe >= 1

Once this item is in your inventory the recipe becomes available. The downside is if you remove the item you also lose the ability to craft that item

you can use the built-in message system (either as a text prompt at the top of the screen, or a pop-up message box).

check out the Hello World scripting tutorial on the wiki. but don't use the debug.messagebox in game, follow the tutorial to the part where they show you how to make a proper message prompt to be used in game.


also you dont need to make a new script for this, just type it into the papyrus fragment section of the quest stage you want it to appear on.

I'm really struggling to get a papyrus message fragment to work in the quest stage has anyone got a working example?

I tried



Event OnInit()
Debug.Notification("Hello, World!")
EndEvent

I was barking up the wrong tree. All it needed was

Debug.MessageBox("You have learned a new recipe")

in the quest stage papyrus fragment.

However I have no idea how to go about calling a nice message top left still ><

I think if you change MessageBox to Notification, that will pop the message in the top LH corner

http://www.creationkit.com/Bethesda_Tutorial_Papyrus_Introduction_to_Properties_and_Functions