Hey everyone!
I am quite interested in helping this project however I can, so I've made a showcase for the OE Dialogue: Hammerfell Mission Claim. For this I used the latest TR_Mainland.esp, as well as the Old Ebonheart v0.0222.esp.
This involved just adding greetings to all the NPCs as well as giving backgrounds to two of the more important characters. I did not give backgrounds to the two NPCs patrolling the stairs, because I assume they are meant to be guards, the same can be said for another NPC. For the backgrounds I just said "blah blah I'm the ambassador" and "blah blah I'm the envoy", of course I'm not sure whether or not this lines up with the character designer's intention for these two, I just could not find any information that could suggest otherwise. If this is an issue, it can easily be resolved. As for the quest, it's a simple "deliver this" quest, where Hoxley wants his letter given to a lady downstairs, simple enough, and should hopefully show I know the basics.
If further showcasing is needed, I'll be happy to do more, however I hope this could suffice well too. It's just a dialogue/quest mod that I have done in the past and should hopefully count as a sort of reference.
Anywho, tell me what you think.
Cheers,
Caeris.
| Attachment | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|
 Hammerfell Mission Dialogue.ESP | 7.8 KB | 2018-03-12 00:24 |
2016-06-10 21:48
4 days 22 hours ago
Welcome, glad to see such a fast turnaround!
First things first, the mod isn't cleaned. Due to using section file esp's instead of esm's this isn't always the easiest thing, and there are a few ways you can do it. My preferred method is to download TESAME and delete any info you didn't touch. if it's a topic don't clean it, if it's a placeholder like OLD EBONHEART BACKGROUND then clean it.
Anything with a * in the CS has been altered by your esp, when making dialogue there's basically no way to get around that which means cleaning is required almost every time you insert a new line. If i'm telling you things you already know then whoops forget that part and submit a new esp.
I think you have a good grasp of
A. the english language
B. morrowind's writing style, both of which are absolutely required for quests and content.
What I'd like to see is the quest getting slightly more intricate. A simple fetch quest with a 20 gold reward is too simple to put in TR. See if you can think of a way to make it more interesting. If you need an idea i've got a few, but see what you can come up with first. Once you do those two things I'll recommend you for promotion.
other:
-all of your greetings have %PCrace in them, maybe change a few of those
-don't be afraid to add some regional spice to them, they're emissaries after all. "Warm sands and fair weather to you, friend."
-you can add more detailed backstories too, these characters are essentialy blank slates. You can make them spill their guts about anything in background/greetings/other topics. maybe someone thinks morrowind is too cold or they miss the sand in their toes. Or they hate sand and they love morrowind.
Grammar stuff:
Errand
>I need you to take this letter downstairs to Akhalleki, I would do it myself if I were not so busy.
runon
backgrounds
>I'm Hoxley, my role here...
runon
2014-03-16 17:45
1 year 11 months ago
To add to the above,
for the showcase: this will be good enough to promote you for dialogue/NPCing claims, though the downstairs delivery is a bit too basic and doesn't cover the scripting essentials needed in most simple quests. You can always add something to it or pick up some non-priority quest claim to demonstrate that later,
for the dialogue claim: imo what's needed more than unique greetings (though there's nothing wrong with having those too) is a relevant topic or two, at least "Hammerfell", maybe "Morrowind" or "Old Ebonheart"? I don't know what they would say, but TR or PT people could help with that