Hi all. I'm having problems at writing this easy script



When the player chooses "leave" it works well, but, when selecting "rub it" it makes the same as "leave", the messagebox dissapears and you can repeat this process all times you want, but the enie does′nt appear...why?

Thanks

Change it to if ( button == 0 ). 0 is the first button, 1 is the second, and so on.

I saw that English isn't your best language in another thread, so you should change "Do you see an old lamp, what dou you want to do??" to "You see an old lamp. What do you want to do?" Multiple question marks are generally not seen in formal writing. I'd capitalize "rub" and "leave" also. You probably don't really need the else and return either, since if button == 1 it should just close the message box.

Personally I'd take some of that code outside the OnActivate loop and rename the script so that it doesn't start with an underscore, as I believe that can cause problems.

Also, the [ CODE ] tags are the best way to post scripts as you can indent them nicely.

Here is a script (untested) using all the changes that have been suggested so far:

Begin dm_magiclampshort buttonshort messageOnif ( OnActivate == 1 )	MessageBox "You see an old lamp. What do you want to do?", "Rub it", "Leave"	set messageOn to 1endifif ( messageOn == 1 )	set button to GetButtonPressed	if ( button == 0 )		Messagebox "A genie appears in front of you" "Ok"		placeatpc "DM_genie" 15566 7665 1999988	endif	if ( button >= 0 )		set messageOn to 0	endifendifend

Good luck!

Well, now it says that the direction on line 15 is wrong and cannot be compiled: -10363.807 -71163.914 166.306 that coordinates

Thanks for the script and the grammar correction, I really need to improve my english haha

PLaceAtPC doesn't take absolute coordinates. It's parameters are [amount of items], [distance from player], [direction from player], where the last one is simply a number: 0=front; 1=back; 2=left; 3=right. There are PlaceItem/PlaceItemCell commands that take coordinates for parameters, but they are Tribunal-only.

Oh yeah, I didn't even think about that xD

If you want the genie to appear in front of the player, use something like this:

PlaceAtPC, "DM_genie", 1, 64, 0

According to Morrowind Scripting for Dummies, PlaceAtPC works like this:

PlaceAtPC, "Object_ID", count_enum, distance_enum, direction_enumDirections:0 = front1 = back2 = left3 = right

So here the count is 1, the distance is 64, and the direction is in front. Feel free to tweak the numbers to get it to work how you want it to.