Lo lo,

I've been mucking around making a quick 5 minute mod this evening, and I'm trying to create dialogue for a child NPC of my creation (PPchildcaucasianmale).

Now, I've set all the conditions in the GREETING topic of a Quest I made to hold the dialogue (PPkidspeak), so theoretically, when you talk to the kid, it should respond with the GREETING and chain of dialogue I've set up.

However it relates to something found in the 'quest' GenericKids (or something like that, I paraphrase the exact name of the vanilla content it relates to).

Any theories?

I based the NPC off an existing ID, but obviously changed it about, removed AI Packages (all of them including the Dialogue ones). I tried creating my own dialogue package, but nothing.

The brat just refuses to speak up.

What am I doing wrong? :S

Ta

Your kid is inherting dialogue from other quests - namely generic kids. That quest has a greeting topic as well. Your child gets that dialogue based on his voice type, so create a new voice type and assign it to your kid NPC. This will remove all vanilla dialogue from him/her though - No hellos or random coments, no nothing. Another thing you could try, although I have not done this myself, would be to make the priority of your dialogue topics and quest higher than the vanilla dialogue and quest.

Hey, it took me till 3am, but I figured it out in the end thanks

More annoyingly right now though, when I try and get the kid to follow me, he doesnt follow me through the door and into the Wasteland. He'll follow me in that cell, but won't come through the door with me.

The follow packages config dictate he follows me into any cell as the Player.

Any ideas?

Cheers

What flags do you have on your follow package?
What are the conditions?
Did you setup an 'End Location'?
How did you setup the Follow tab on the follow package?

Yes, a follow package should have the nPC following you through teleport doors, unless you have a mod conflict that prevents it or perhaps you a using a dirty save in your testing.

Hmm, could be a dirty save as I have no other mods active ingame. It's the base, the EPs and my mod.

Flags: Allow Swimming, Allows Falls, Continue During Combat and Fallout Behaviour
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There's no end location setup either, as it states in the tutorial I followed not to have an end location... (Edit, I did just tick the flag for End location with near current location - still no result)

Follow Target as cell any and ref any aswell.

You don't want the end location for the follow package.

Your follow target should be the player, right? Not Any Any.

I don't see how you can choose cell:any Ref:any for a follow package anyway.

It should be setup with the Specific Reference radio button toggled. The chose the Cell and reference to follow. If that reference is the player, you can choose any cell, but you have to actually choose a cell, then select the player reference from that cell.

Nah, I got rid of the end location. The current setup is thus;

http://img685.imageshack.us/i/31711595.jpg/

Oh, and another thing... if I want to conditionalize a greeting so that it checks to see if a global variable is lower than a hundred, would I set the Greeting's condition to be;

GetGlobalValue -> Global: PPtestVar -> <= 99

I know the variable is set to 50 to begin with, and through a debug topic I can modify it, but other than that, the greeting that checks that condition never activates.

I looked at your image, and I am still confused as to how you were able to select 'Any' for the cell. My version of the Geck does not have 'Any' as an option. If this is working then, :shrug: .

For your conditionalized GREETING... If your NPC uses a default voice type than they will also hve default greeting topics that come from the 'genereic' quests. Does your greeting ever occur without the global condition? If the answer is no, you can try setting the priority of your quest to a value higher than what the generic quests use (I think 60 will work) so that your quest GREETING topic will be chosen before the generic ones. You can also give your NPC a custom voice type and that will remove any and all generic topics from your NPC.

It works to the extent of following me about the room, it just wont follow me out through any doors.

How would you have set the follow package up?

As for the greeting, it does, yes! I'll try this shortly and see if that's what's been causing the little bugger to not pvssyr correctly. Cheers PK, a help as always.

I have setup my follow packages just like your image except that I have a specific cell selected in place of your 'Any' The cell itself does not matter, but the only difference I see is that I have an actual cell name whereas you have 'any'. Also, could the condition on your follow package be the problem? I don't actually see it in the image, but could it evaluate to something different after the player leaves the cell?

Are you using the Geck patched to v1.5?

Hmm, odd. I'm not using the patched version, no, as I've heard bad things about it :S

Frustration, everything is set up as it should be. The kid follows me about the cell, it just wont come through the door.

AFAIK Geck not patched to v1.5 = bad, not the other way around.

Hmmmmh. This I shall try then. Will this cause incompatibility or any issues with my mods?

None that I am aware of. Also, is your game patched to v1.7?

My biggy, it is patched to 1.5.0.19

Gamewise, not sure if that patch is updated either, presumably it is, to get the later EP's working. Infact, Im sure it is.

Edit: I'm an idiot... I thought I'd done the Navmesh way back... but alas, it mustn't have saved when GECK crashed. Taaaa daaaa. Resolved.

Still trying to get this conditionalised greeting topic to start up though. Created a new Voice type and was going to try that, so I'll post back with my findings.

Just another FYI - But Fallout patch 1.5 is the worst version of the game you can have. v1.5 introduced a whole new set of bugs that weren't in prior versions and 1.7 only fixed a few of these. I recommend Geck patched to v1.5 and fallout 3 patched to v1.7