First I want to say I like doing things for myself so asking for help is kinda new for me. I'm working on a small quest mod code named http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1417293-wip-five-songs-of-king-wulfharth and need the services of a talented scripter. If anyone is interested please let me know.

If I weren't so busy with life, work and trying to get in what little modding time I have on my own mod, I'd offer to help. I like the premise of your WIP, btw.

Anyway, if you don't find anybody, your best bet is to just keep developing your story and building your mod, and if you get stuck on something, post your questions here and the guru's will certainly help you. I'm blown away almost every time I post for help (which is pretty regularly, lol) with how these great folks around here are willing to teach me.

With all the help I've gotten, I'm getting much better, but I'm still a very novice scripter. I'd be glad to try and help you as much as I can though. Just post up what you're trying to do.

What do your scripts need to do?

I agree the people in this section of the forum are very helpful. They've helped me alot already.


What I need is, after initiating dialogue with an npc, said npc and all npc's in the room attack the player. Also after beating King Wulfharth he automatically opens dialogue, then he teaches you a new shout, like the Greybeards do.

How many NPC's do you want to be triggered by this?

24

Ah yes, we're working on something very similar! SetRelationshipRank will do the trick for you:

http://www.creationkit.com/Actor.SetRelationshipRank_%28Papyrus%29

What I did is set a quest stage via the fragment in the last dialog where you want them to become hostile, and in my quest stage use:

Alias_MyActor01.SetRelationshipRank(Game.GetPlayer(), -4)
Alias_MyActor02.SetRelationshipRank(Game.GetPlayer(), -4)
Alias_MyActor03.SetRelationshipRank(Game.GetPlayer(), -4)

and so on rinse/repeat for each of your NPC's.

There may be a way to do it by creating a faction and making them friendly to that faction, and then removing that in your fragment, but I haven't done it that way yet.

For the shout, I would use a force greet package that becomes valid when you defeat your King. When he force greets you, you can run through the teaching of the shout in your dialog branches. You could also interrupt your dialog with a short scene where he walks to a central area and demonstrates the shout, then comes back to talk to you. Scenes are wicked cool! Give me a little more detail and I'll try to help more!

Ok, that sounds easy. Stupid question: Where it says MyActor I put my npc's id right?

To problem I see here is how to make them aggressive towards the player but I think it can be done by modifying their faction.

This looks like it is going to be more than one script.

Event OnStoryHello()Game.GetPlayer().SetAttackActorOnSight(true)EndEvent

I assume Wulfharth is unkillable so:

Event OnEnterBleedout()Game.GetPlayer().SetAttackActorOnSight(false)EndEvent

From there I am kinda stumped as to how the process of learning shouts works. Will do a bit of research later.
Balok was faster.

Yes, you will want to create an alias for each of your actors, and use that name to substitute where I put MyActor01, etc.

I did as you said, but everytime I press compile it keeps failing and says SetRelationshipRank is not a function or does not exist.

Oops, my bad. Sorry for the error but I was at the office (sans Creation Kit) and trying to tell you by memory and from what the wiki says. I just checked mine and you probably need to add in "GetActorRef()" like this:

Alias_MyActor.GetActorRef().SetRelationshipRank(Game.GetPlayer(), -4)

Actor Property PlayerREF AutoReferenceAlias[] Property kAliasArray AutoEvent SomeEvent()	Int iIndex = kAliasArray.Length	While iIndex > 0		iIndex -= 1		(kAliasArray[iIndex].GetReference() As Actor).SetRelationshipRank(PlayerREF, -4)	EndWhileEndEvent

^Should be faster, particularly if there are a lot of aliases to cover.

@ JustinOther! This looks like more of the beautiful arrays to the rescue?

Nice, I'll try it out if I can't get Balok's way to work. As for Aliases I only have 4 not 24 like I said earlier.

@Balok: I added the script as you said and it compiled. But how do I set a quest stage via the fragment in the last dialog?

You should be able to use:

GetOwningQuest().SetStage(xx)

I also use this a LOT in my dialog fragments and stage fragments as well:

GetOwningQuest().SetObjectiveCompleted(xx)
GetOwningQuest().SetObjectiveDisplayed(xx)

Yea some people forget if you want to run an actor script function, you need to call the GetActorRef() function on the alias. Otherwise the script just thinks the alias is an aliasref, and won't recognise actor script functions.

Name As actor will work in other situations to

First want to say thank you for taking the time to help. But I did as you said and they don't attack me. The journal just updates.

You gotta add this:

Alias_MyActor.GetActorRef().SetRelationshipRank(Game.GetPlayer(), -4)

for each of the bad guys you want to go hostile on you. (Substitute "Alias_MyActor" for the actual alias names of your bad guys of course.)

I'm sure I've read that GetActorReference is better to use than GetActorRef. Can't remember why though

Edit

Sorry, GetReference() As Actor, is better.

Just out of curiousity, why is that? For SetRelationshipRank on the wiki it shows the example of "AnnoyingFan.SetRelationshipRank(Game.GetPlayer(), -4)" which would require setting an actor property on your NPC. I'm doing the same thing, just on the alias as opposed to the actor. I'm confused, lol.

I did here some pics of how I set it up.

http://imageshack.us/a/img62/9774/clipboard02gt.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img600/8094/clipboard01rhl.jpg

OK, it looks like what you're missing is that you're not setting stage 20, you're only telling it to complete OBJECTIVE 10, and set OBJECTIVE 20. Objectives are not the same thing as stages. So, in your dialog fragment where you set those objectives, add in:

 GetOwningQuest().SetStage(20) 

Try that and get back to me. They should commence to opening a can of whoupass now!

Still didn't work. I just had a thought could it be the reason they don't attack, is cause I got them in a faction? Maybe the script is conflicting with the faction AI.

You know I was thinking about just setting them up as the enemy and attack the player, from the get go.

Thank you for your time and patience. I will credit you and Big1BadDaddy in the readme.