Making an NPC talk alone

Post » Wed Oct 08, 2014 2:25 am

My goal is:

- Player goes to the frozen hearth (inn in winterhold)

- There is a NPC that is blaming his lucky (to draw attention to Player). He'll say that periodically until player talk to him.

What i've tried until now is:

- Make a scene with a "say" package with 3 conditions: GETisID: my NPC, IsinDialogueWithPlayer =0, Get Stage <10.

- Put the dialogue via Misc. windows with the same conditions.

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Roy Harris
 
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Post » Tue Oct 07, 2014 3:40 pm

You should just be able to make it an idle (with GetIsID and GetStage) for your NPC. It would be said when the player is near them and they're idling, but not when they're speaking with the player.

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Pawel Platek
 
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Post » Wed Oct 08, 2014 2:32 am

I'm srry for my noobish comment but: what's an idle? isn't it an animation haha?

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Honey Suckle
 
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Post » Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:13 pm

Oh, sorry. It's a type of dialogue. You can create it under the Misc tab for your quest. Then when you create a new branch/topic, choose Idles, and name it whatever you like. You have the normal conditions for dialogue there, but the dialogue will only be played when the character is idling.

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J.P loves
 
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Post » Tue Oct 07, 2014 8:27 pm

oh! thx! You don't know how grateful I am!

Thanks for your patience!

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Matt Terry
 
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Post » Wed Oct 08, 2014 2:04 am

hmmm don't know why but it's not working.

EDited: Maybe cause my NPC is an actor in a scene?

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michael danso
 
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Post » Wed Oct 08, 2014 1:17 am

If he's in a scene he can't do an idle because he's not idling.

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Batricia Alele
 
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Post » Tue Oct 07, 2014 6:12 pm

true XD. There is an other way to make this dialogue happens?

My scene it's a SitTarget package, and ends when the player finish the dialogue with the npc

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Stephanie I
 
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Post » Tue Oct 07, 2014 10:34 am

Give the NPC a sandbox package so he'll wander around using idle markers and saying idle topics. When the PC talks to him use a dialogue tree.

If you need anything more than just talking you can start a scene from an info fragment.

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marie breen
 
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Post » Tue Oct 07, 2014 12:27 pm

ookay! thxs for your help Doc!

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