Hi!


I'm currently working on a mod where the player writes a diary. I'm planning on doing this by having the player "equipping" inkwells while in certain trigger boxes, and then get a pre-written note from an array based on which trigger box he is in.



I have a quest where I keep my array of notes, and a quest objective for every note. When the player triggers one of my trigger boxes it will display one of the quest objectives. I then have a script added to my inkwells that will read what quest objective is displayed and give the player the proper note.

This is the script I'm using on the inkwells.

Now to my problems:

1. When I activate my inkwell in the inventory nothing happens. I've tried both OnEquipped and OnActivate and can't even get my messagebox. Any idea on how I solve this?

2. I don't really know how to call on my array, let alone specific items in it. I'll post my tiny little array from the quest script for good measure. Can anyone help me?

My coding is rusty so bear with me. Does this work:

Event OnEquipped(Actor akActor)

playerRef.RemoveItem(Inkwell)

endEvent

Are you sure the inkwell is actually pointing to the inkwell that the player has equipped? Maybe you could use the following to make sure the item that is being pointed to is the correct item:

http://www.creationkit.com/GetEquippedObject_-_Actor

http://www.creationkit.com/GetEquippedItemType_-_Actor

I suggest you test using a vanilla item before inserting your own.

1. Is your playerref property filled?

2. Have you checked out these pages on the wiki for arrays? http://www.creationkit.com/Array_Reference, http://www.creationkit.com/Arrays_%28Papyrus%29.%C2%A0 That should help you get started. A formlist may be easier to manage over an array, depending on what you're doing.

E.g.

Scriptname _test_testscript extends Quest
 
MiscObject[] Property kList Auto ;fill with CK

Function SomeFunction()
    Game.GetPlayer().AddItem(kList[0]) ;give the player the first item in the list
endFunction

1: OnEquip should fire. you'll get the "can't equip..." nag in game though.

2: to fill your array, just fill the property like you'd fill any other: you'll get according buttons to add and remove items to the array. 1st item is "0", not "1"!!!

to call functions on something in your array, go like "MyReference [17].disable ()", so you'd just add ["item n# in array"] and else call it like any other object

since you say you want to spawn messages depending on what trigger box you're in, it might be easier to have the respective trigger boxes do that:

you can put a property for a single note (which will be the one to read) on your trigger base object and individually fill it for any trigger ref (change property in ref's "script" tab), so you can have one script that reads one note and determine which one that'll be per trigger

Thanks for all the help! I've gotten a basic functionality where I can equip inkwells to recieve notes, and have different notes based on which trigger box I'm in.



I realized that my playerRef wasn't properly filled, so thank you Elias555.



This is my script on my quest for now (thank you Mojo22) :

This is the script on my inkwells:







And thanks s7o for the idea of using the individual trigger boxes to decide what note you recieve. I dont think I actually understood exactly how you meant, but what I got works. So this is my script on the trigger boxes:








I think this might not be the most effective way of doing this, as my game drops in performance when I walk about in my test cell. It works though, so I'm happy!



My next challenge is that I only want notes to be added once. Oblivion had a "DoOnce", so I guess that I will find something similar. I also want some of my trigger boxes to have several notes that you can recieve if you "write" in them more than once, but I guess that will solve itself when I find the "DoOnce"-equivalent in Skyrim. Does anyone know?