Do you need to do anything special to get log entries to display properly in the player's journal/quest log? I can get the quest working well enough with setstage at the moment, but no log entries are ever displayed...

SetObjectiveDisplayed(StageNumber)

That displays the text under the quest objectives tab. I want to get the text under the quest stages tab to show up in the player's journal

When you set a stage, it shows whatever has been indexed to that stage. If nothing is indexed, it continues to show the previous entry. As long as you enter something for, say stage 5, then call a SetStage(5) that should show up in the diary.

What do you mean by indexed?

Basically 'connected to'. Meaning, for each stage there is an area to enter text for the diary. If the quest is set to a stage, and that stage has text there, it's displayed. If that stage has no text, it continues to show whatever text it was showing before. (From earlier in the quest, or no text if the quest just started)

Can you provide a screenshot of the Quest Stages tab of your quest, with a stage that should show diary text selected? It's fairly straightforward and should be showing up if you have it set up correctly.

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/modules/members/index.php?id=2676350

Click the images tab (the mountain one), they're either the first or last 5 (the CK ones and the in game pics w/ quest log open)

Do your scripts compile? The fragments you have with each stage look they they need to start with GetOwningQuest(). so if they don't compile it may void that entire section, including the journal entry.

I haven't had any compile errors thus far in the quest stages tab... I just assumed when you put something into the Log Entry box it would automatically come up (in the journal) along with the quest displayed line when the setobjectivedisplayed(queststage) function was called...

Log Entries appear when SetStage is called (not Objectives).

But, if your quest is working OK, then I assume you are calling SetStage from various places in your scripts? (You aren't jumping stages, are you?)

If you are calling SetStage then I see no reason why the logs would not appear.

Yes, I have scripts like OnTrigger() dropped into objects at the moment that call the setstage() function, that do in fact update the quest (I'm having a problem with OnRead, but that's in a different post, and somewhat unrelated), but I never get anything in the quest journal, from start to finish

Ah!

I remember reading somewhere that certain types of quest DO NOT add log entries ... Miscellaneous, I think. Is that what your quest is set to? Make it a Side-Quest if so

(I want to figure out how these Quest Types work ... then I can add a fancy icon ... but I've not gotten around to it so far)

Misc also wouldn't show as a seperate quest, but rather as an objective under the 'Misc' section quest header.

As far as types go, I've asked but there seems to be no way to add our own. We are stuck with the default types. Though I'd love to have a catagory for my own main, side, and misc quests, it appears we are out of luck.

No, that's not it. It has been set to side quest since the start.

I did some testing of my Quests and stuff today.

My Journal Entries all work as expected (they appear at the top of the journal, right under the Quest title).

If I have no entry then I get no entry - If I do have one, then I get it ... Everytime.

I do not see any differences in the screenshots you posted and what I use

Sorry

Did you have to call any particular functions other than setstage() and setobjectivedisplayed() ?

Actually, I always use the longer forms (don't know why, just habit now I guess):

• SetCurrentStageID(10)
  
• SetObjectiveCompleted(10)
  
• SetObjectiveDisplayed(20)

But if your quest is advancing OK, then I' not sure that little difference will matter?

perhaps SetCurrentStageID(10) works better that just SetStage(10)... I'll give that a try

No, no logs that way either... this is really odd!