The Emperor has two alternate pieces of dialog, one when he talks to the player the first time and the one when he talks to the player the last time. I'm trying to make a menu that will show up when you load the mod and allow you to select which set of dialogs you want. I got the menu to work alright - but nothing else works because GetButtonPressed always returns -1 rather then 0 or 1 which is what I need. Any ideas?

ScriptName DialogChooserScriptShort DialogChooserShort DialogChoiceShort DialogChosenBegin GameMode	If DialogChosen == 0	MessageBox "Which dialogs would you like to activate?" "Original" "Alternate"	Set DialogChooser To GetButtonPressed	Set DialogChosen To 1	EndIf	If DialogChooser == 0	Set DialogChoice To 0	ElseIf DialogChooser == 1	Set DialogChoice To 1	EndIfEnd

- Ryan Paul Fialcowitz

You're doing it in the wrong order, is all. Here's a template:

short Chosenshort Choosingshort ChoiceBegin GameMode	If Chosen == 0		MessageBox "Question Goes Here" "Answer 1" "Answer 2"		set Choosing to 1		set Chosen to 1	EndIf	If Choosing == 1		Set Choice to GetButtonPressed		If Choice == 0			;do stuff for Answer 1			set Choosing to 0		ElseIf Choice == 1			;do stuff for Answer 2			set Choosing to 0		EndIf	EndIfEnd

Basically, you have to set a variable as a flag for when the script should start listening for the response ("Choosing", in this case), and then set something to GetButtonPressed. Then you have to set your flag variable back to 0 as soon as a choice has been made to kill the messagebox.

Hope this helps!

GetButtonPressed is still returning -1 rather then 0 or 1.

- Ryan Paul Fialcowitz

-1 means no button has been pressed yet, that the script can determine.
Post your current script.

I just tried the above script again and it seems to be working. Previously I was testing it with saved games which didn't work, but it seems to work with new games. Hopefully there won't be any more issues. Thanks for the help.

- Ryan Paul Fialcowitz

edit: nevermind, you've fixed it

Not quite. I'd like to be able to reset the mod via a keyboard combination so that I can get the menu again- but I unsure as to how to accomplish this. Even when run with The Script Extender, The Construction Set doesn't like the IsKeyPressed3 command, I would assume this is because I am using it incorrectly. Any advice, as always, would be appreciated.

ScriptName DialogChooserScriptShort ChoiceShort DialogShort PlayerHasChosenBegin GameMode	If IsKeyPressed3 == 52 && IsKeyPressed == 53		Set PlayerHasChosen To 0	EndIf	If PlayerHasChosen == 0		MessageBox "Would you like to activate the alternate dialogs?" "Of course!" "No, I'd really rather not."			Set Dialog To 1			Set PlayerHasChosen To 1	EndIf	If Dialog == 1		Set Choice To GetButtonPressed		If Choice == 0			Set Dialog To 0		ElseIf Choice == 1			Set Dialog To 0		EndIf	EndIfEnd

- Ryan Paul Fialcowitz

Try this:

If IsKeyPressed3 52 == 1 && IsKeyPressed3 53 == 1

Thanks dude, worked like a charm. For anyone interested the mod can be found at: https://sites.google.com/site/ryanpaulfialcowitz/

- Ryan Paul Fialcowitz