Hi guys and gals,

Need your help again.

I need to delay a dialog topic by a certain number of days starting from a greating topic

How do I go about implementing a Timer so a topic appears only a given number of days after the Player great a given npc (a companion in that case)?

Any help is welcome at this stage.

http://www.creationkit.com/Complete_Example_Scripts#Script_for_a_quest_with_time_limit

Set a Var to (GameDaysPassed + X) when you want the timer to start , then add a condition to the INFO(s) that checks if GameDaysPassed >= Var.

Thanks but this does not help that's not what I want to do. this script makes a player to complete a quest by a certain time...That's not what I want...Me I would like to fire a quest at a given time after an event.
But thanks anyway

should I set a Global Variable first

I meant that you could adjust their script to help you, but I'll give it a shot on my own.

You could (at beginning of timer) make an alias that gets filled by the Player, or by whoever really. Could even be an invisible actor in the CTest cell for all we care. Then register this alias for a single update.

Event OnUpdate()int i=0while i
Then just make the dialogue condition that MyGlobal ==1

You could also just have the timer set a quest stage, and have that quest stage as a condition for your dialog to fire.

Scripts on Quest Stages only run once (when the stage is activated), so somewhere there has to be an OnUpdate Event to handle re-checking the timer

I would ...

• Put an OnUpdate on the player alias in the quest (with a quite large update timer ... it doesn't need to update too often).
  
• Setup your timer-stop (mytimetostop = currentgametime + mynumtimetowait)
  
• Setup an if statement in the OnUpdate that when CurrentGameTime >= mytimetostop
  
• When the statement is true, have a line that updates the Quest to the next stage which enables the dialogue (test for Quest Stage in Dialogue)
  
• You should also make sure to stop checking for updates once the condition has fired! (or it will keep running!)

I did the same thing this way and it works well ... Though you might want to check you have given the Player enough feedback that he is going to be hanging around while the time passes.

thanks guys...THAT helps and sorry for the late response. I am going with Il Ducey solution as I want my quest to fire x time after a dialog is fired