I need to figure out exactly when a particular vanilla quest (DB05, if you want to know) starts, and then start my own quest on that.

Intially I thought of using the the story manager, but there isn't any QuestStart event nodes, so now I'm stumped. And I don't want to resort to polling every few seconds in the end.

Help?

Try http://www.creationkit.com/OnStoryScript_-_Quest.

Edit: I guess you need to send something to it first. :X My bad.

Would that even work? DB05 isn't started by the story manager, so I don't think this will apply.

One way is a quest that's start game enabled with a script similar to this:

Event OnInit()         RegisterForSingleUpdateGameTime(10)EndEventEvent OnUpdateGameTime()    if (DB05.IsRunning())           ;do stuff                   else            RegisterForSingleUpdateGameTime(10)            Return        endifEndEvent

But that wouldn't be very precise, wouldn't it?

sigh...I suppose it'll have to do, with a shorter update interval I guess.

You can play with the time settings and get it as low as .01 I believe. How precise do you need?