I'm trying to make a script that runs on the player at all times using a quest, but I'm having trouble getting the quest to start, even though "Start game enabled" is ticked. Am I missing a step? I created a new quest, attached my script to it, and made sure "Start game enabled" was ticked. When that didn't work, I tried adding a name, a start up stage with a log entry and an objective to see if it would show up in the journal, but it didn't.

The script is as follows:

Scriptname LorkTestScript extends ObjectReference{Prevents the player from moving while attacking}Event OnInit()	Debug.MessageBox("I live!")	RegisterForAnimationEvent(Game.GetPlayer(), "AttackStart")endEventEvent OnAnimationEvent(ObjectReference akSource, string asEventName)	Debug.MessageBox("I'm attacking")endEvent

Never mind the event handler for now; if the script is running at all I should at least see the first messagebox, shouldn't I?

If you attached it to a quest, your script has to extend Quest.

That's interesting (and not mentioned anywhere in the wiki that I can see), although if that's the case, the problem then becomes how to use the functions I want. Simply changing the script to extend the quest prevents it from compiling because it can't find RegisterForAnimationEvent.

RegisterForAnimationEvent belongs to the Form script. Almost all script extends Form and therefore inherit this function.

Oh, whoops. I misread trira's post as saying scripts attached to a quest should extend the quest itself, rather than what he was actually saying, which is that they should extend "Quest".

Edit: Lol, I misread your post there too. What a coincidence...

Success! Well, the first messagebox triggers anyway. It looks like I might be running into http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1348473-onanimationevent-doesnt-trigger-even-after-successful-registerforanimationevent/ with OnAnimationEvent, though. There are other, significantly less elegant ways to do what I want, but it seems silly to use them when this other, much better way supposedly exists.

Edit: Disregard that. Apparently "attackStart" isn't an animation event according to RegisterForAnimationEvent. Is there any way to get a list of all of the animation events accepted by this function?

Oh yes you will, mark my words, Muahahahaha

To be honest, I'm start thinking that OnAnimationEvent is not functioning as it should. It didn't catch any Registered Animation at all

Have you checked whether or not that's used anywhere in vanilla scripts?

Cipscis

And never mind my edit to my last post, because apparently RegisterForAnimationEvent will fail if you start it from a new game, probably because the player doesn't exist yet or something dumb like that. If I do it with an existing character it does register "attackStart" successfully, and then proceeds to not trigger any OnAnimationEvents.

It seems to work just fine here:

ScriptName AltarofMolagBalScript extends ReferenceAliasReferenceAlias Property MaceofMolagBal AutoQuest Property DA10 AutoReferenceAlias Property TalkingMaceTriggerREF AutoReferenceAlias Property TalkingMace AutoReferenceAlias Property RustyMaceIntRef AutoInt Property DisableOnce AutoEvent OnAnimationEvent(ObjectReference akSource, string asEventName);	 debug.trace(self + "Receiving animation event from player")	If akSource == Game.GetPlayer() && asEventName == "IdleChairSitting"		;Utility.Wait(1)		Game.DisablePlayerControls()		GetRef().PlayAnimation("Up")		TalkingMace.GetRef().Activate(Game.GetPlayer())		TalkingMaceTriggerREF.GetRef().Disable()		UnRegisterForAnimationEvent(Game.GetPlayer(), "IdleChairSitting")	EndIfEndEventEvent OnActivate(ObjectReference akActionRef)	If (akActionRef == (Game.GetPlayer())) && (GetOwningQuest().GetStageDone(76) == 0)		RegisterForAnimationEvent(Game.GetPlayer(), "IdleChairSitting")		;Game.ForceThirdPerson()				;failsafe		Utility.Wait(5)		UnRegisterForAnimationEvent(Game.GetPlayer(), "IdleChairSitting")	EndIf		EndEvent

Anyway, we should probably continue this discussion in rongphale's thread, since it seems to be the same issue.