Uploaded new file with tweaked dialogue.
Kept more formal-apologetic tone when guards are adressing a legion superior if that's ok, rest is at least marginally better.
arvis, thanks! I'll still try to fix the stuff I don't fully understand, learning quite a lot.
(scripting blabber ahead only)
arvisrend wrote:You could be more vocal about the scripting tactics you have discovered!
I particularly liked how you called a global script from a dialogue result, which then injected a choice into the dialogue result.
I don't know what the extent of all known tricks is, but yeah, I didn't see that one in Dummies so kept it as is to remember. Well spotted.
script injection can also be used for modular responses with MessageBox, though it displays in bold white (like "your journal has been updated"), suitable for actions but probably not for generic dialogue. Still, could allow specific, complex cases with tons of permutations by replacing dozen of necessary entries with just one entry & one script.
arvisrend wrote:"GetHealth <= 0" isn't a way to find out whether an NPC is dead. If an NPC dies while a health-restore effect is active on him (be it his own spell, or an enchantment, or a spell the player cast on him to use him as a better training dummy), he often dies with a positive health recorded. Unfortunately, there isn't an automatic way to fix this, since OnDeath has its known quirks and getDeadCount is extremely heavy on the framerate (for no good reason).
I made a yeller dummy I might still have somewhere to test these kinda things ,
- issue specific to health-restore comes from magic effects still processing during the dying animation, which means we're good as long as death is checked every frame on top of the script and then record it,
- "OnDeath" failure can regardless happen, and the NPC dies with very low but still >0 health - and the chance of failure is either system-dependant or/and much more likely from damaging spell effects than weapons. So "gethealth <= 0" would have the exact same problem. Also the remaining health can possibly be integer, and I didn't check whether max health had any bearing on that buuut, using healthratio to make sure, how about this as an all-purpose death check?
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short dead
If ( dead == 0 )
If ( GetHealthGetRatio <= 0.05 )
ModCurrentHealth -100
Set dead to 1
Endif
Endif
arvisrend wrote:Fatigue is a float, so I'm not sure if comparisons like "if ( rot_naralitar0->GetFatigue == 300 )" and "ElseIf ( rot_naralitar0->GetFatigue == 250 )" actually do what they should. I haven't checked.
They do, but I specifically set those fatigue values from other scripts - might not work from straight CS-set values,
arvisrend wrote:You check if the player tries to talk to the fake scamps. I bet this is very unlikely since creatures in combat cannot be talked to.
Indeed, works before their first blow is struck only (or calm/stealth, neither making much sense). And as Haplo said there's always a varyingly short time before that happens.
I think if that's of any use for creatures, it could be scripted around by alternatively stop-starting combat on each hit, but not worth the effort here.
arvisrend wrote:Apparently the timer for resisting the spell (script rot_sc_baesh_guardspell) is measured in frames. Not sure if this is very fair to low-end gamers. Same for the attack timer on the frenzied smugglers.
I did all my timers in frames because on my install(pretty low-end, frequent slowdowns), the getseconds sometimes (rarely) counts noticeably slower or faster than it should for no reason I could figure (simple scripts without any returns). So is GetSecondsPassed usually OK ?
arvisrend wrote:The items scripted with rot_sc_baesh_guardstuff keep their script even when the player has taken them.
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But you've got 4 different objects in this script, and MW scripting doesn't know enough reflection to distinguish between them. Well, but the objects have different health, so you can use getHealth to tell them apart
I thought against getHealth since a few rebalancing mods tweak even the durability on vanilla equipment. Also, the reason why I didn't make it 5 scripts was... yes, ok, laziness :>
but also, out of habit when playing I always open inventory before I take items, and the pick-up not happening as usual which results from shortcutting activation (object stays onscreen before closing inventory) is a dead ringer for shenanigans. (also allows on a low-Intelligence character to check for TR spellbooks worth keeping... whoops, powergaming slip)
Is there any way to externally call a terminable global script targeted on such objects?
I tried an example adapted straight from Scripting for Dummies to call a script for instance on a door (unique, placed in CS), and it compiles fine but doesn't run ingame. And calling anything on a specific object "ref" doesn't allow scripts to compile in the CS - adding 00000000 etc, which, I've read in aeons-old forbidden scripture, was a technique before the additions from Tribunal/BM -
arvisrend wrote:Naralitar's escape routine behaves weirdly. Sometimes, he fails (or doesn't try?) to become invisible, and just stands around peacefully without doing anything after paralyzing the player. One time I had him successfully escape and then the game crashed, possibly due to the "Setdelete 1" in his script?
I fixed him not casting on my end by assuming it was an AI overlap and adding a 1frame delay before it, might need more on higher FPS,
The crash you had I'm almost certain**** comes from the effect when he disappears for good - explodespell called from the invisible wall activator w/ collision, which causes a crash when Player or a NPC is moving through it during the frame in which it is active. I'm thinking I should make another invisible activator with non-offending collision if I'm ever to use that explodespell FX technique elsewhere.
****But aside from that, I've found Setdelete can cause weird consequences (eg deleting a caster will prematurely finish the duration of his spells) and generally shouldn't be used before everything even remotedly related to it is over with. Filed that under my understanding that the Morrowind script engine's special ecosystem of bugs is at least as alien as the game itself.
