Hi I have another quest and stage ending on an exterior cell , then the second quest starts straight after with a forcegreet scene ....

the scene requires the actor npc to enter in an interior cell , reach an Xmarker reference and wait the Player there then greet the player with blablabla ....
but it never starts , never greets , the npc enters the cell and sits on a chair insted than greeting or doing what he had to do ....

why?

Sounds like the NPC is sandboxing. What AI packages is he running?

Forcegreet only Its like

Quest 1

Ending stage of quest 1 sets start of quest 2 that has forcegreetaststart of quest scene starting


the npc goes inside the door and gets in interior

Quest 2

he stands sitting doing nothing....

Btw I think I am still on 1.5 as I didnt install the beta does this means anything like may be a navmeshbug?

Or perhaps couse I am starting the scene in the 0 or 05 stages of the quest? seems that even if the quest starts in stage 0 it shows the quest starting only at stage 10 , may be because is there the first objective?

I see there are two different force greed , the procedure and the package , hw to use those? I am trying to use the package but it doesnt do what it should actually does nothing...

Ideas?

If you are assigning the package to a quest alias, perhaps your quest is not starting because some of its aliases are not filled.

Otherwise, perhaps you have a condition on the forcegreet package that is not being met.

how it can be not filled if the actor is in world and I can see when I am ingame?

the condition is just reach the X reference , then when the player gets close by < 25 to x marker then greet ... but ... nothing


are there any ingame examples of forcegreeting?

Also how does actually work couse mine didn't work and I dunno how shoudl perform ... does it deprive the character of any movement and forces the talking to the npc?

That means there's a reference to the actor in the world. It does not mean the alias in your quest is filled. If your alias filltype is set to UniqueActor then you're probably ok (as long as that actor is unique - having a second reference somewhere in the game will screw this up), if that is the only alias your quest has. But if you have another alias in your quest that is not being filled, your quest will not run, so none of the aliases will be applied.


NPC packages are not evaluated continuously, but at intervals (shorter if the player is near) - if you want to be forcegreeted the instant you reach the Xmarker you need to set up a trigger or script.

Forcegreeting is just like any other dialogue with an NPC, except that you don't start it by activating the NPC, they run up to you and it starts. Like couriers.

The actor is unique , I can set a triggerenter box perhaps?

but is in game any sample?

Sometimes, if you use one of the packages, you can start off with the move part of the package already satisfied. For some reason, this doesn't then kick off the the FG part of the package. It's as if you need to be outside the location radius for the movement in order for the move to kick off, and the move has to start and end before the talking happens.

I have had some success making my own package with a single FG procedure and a location radius large enough to include the player at the start. For best results combine it with a scene.

The thing is that usually the Player comes from another location and when enters the location the package shoul already be strted andthe npc be in pos X but instead he hangs around sitting and sandboxing ...

This is not working , it could be related to may be beeing a scene under the 10 level stage? or What?

I am wasting countless hours on this problem it just iis not workin in any way or manner , can someone please point me to some working samples in game or exactly how to setup a working package?

well, ireleth uses forcegreet when you first enter dragonsreach. you could look at that

what quest is that?

I can't remember offhand. To find it I had to go through all the MQ quests until I found them talking about Dragonsreach.

Searching inside the MQ script files will probably find it fairly quickly.

I think its MQ102 but , when I see Irileth forcegreet it has nothing different from mine ... but mine just doesn't work and I can't get why ....

Could someone post a sample on how to setup a working forcegreetpackage? I can't get mine to work , no matter what ... I am starting to really get pissed at this now , it's days I am trying and the actor don't do anything ... it coudl be related to save game? how to eventually test the package and quest without having to redo 5 quests befoure?

Still this problem is Blocking my quest making !!!

I suggest you first narrow down the problem: find out whether the problem is that your alias is not being filled, or that your package is not working. (This is easily done by making the alias non optional and seeing whether your quest even starts. Or you might try getting another package to work on the alias, and see if you can.) Then post more details about your alias or package respectively, and maybe people will have some ideas.

Also try adding debug.trace calls to the start and stop fragments for the package. See if it's getting called at all, and if it finishes executing.

what does debug.trace?

The alias I suppose is filled because is an essential actor that is on the scene , the quest starts fine , I have debug telling me that ... I even added a prestage scene to make the actor walk inside the ship ... ( in case the pacage got blocked on change of cell ... but still it doesnt do anything , don't greet dont perform anything apart normal sandboxing ... also I wonder if this coudl be due to the savegame ? I am at a 5th quest stage and I have memorized save game right befoure the start of this package ..... but , redoing all steps woudl take quite a lot to just arrive at testing this ....

Writes a string to the log file. You can use Debug.MessageBox and have it pop up on screen if you don't have logging set up