I'm having trouble getting a script to work the way I want it, and the CS wiki isn't helping me much. What I'm trying to do is get a quest to update the first time this activator is used, after its normal scripted functions. Here's what I've got so far:

scn adTHoutHidescrfloat adTHoutHidetimershort adTHoutHidedisappearbegin OnActivate	if ( adTHoutDoor01ref.GetDisabled == 1 )		adTHoutDoor01ref.enable		adTHoutDoor01stubref.enable		adTHoutLightBasin1ref.enable		adTHoutLightFlame01ref.enable		adTHoutLight1ref.enable		message "A mysterious door appears..."		PlaySound AMBThunderDistant		adTHoutdoor01ref.PlayMagicShaderVisuals  adTHouthideeffect, 2                    if ( GetStage adTHchain01 == 10 )                       SetStage adTHchain01 50                    endif      else		adTHoutdoor01ref.PlayMagicShaderVisuals  adTHouthideeffect, 2		message "The door disappears..."		set adTHoutHidetimer to 2          set adTHoutHidedisappear to 1	endifendbegin GameMode    if ( adTHoutHidedisappear == 1 )	     if ( adTHoutHidetimer > 0 )			set adTHoutHidetimer to adTHoutHidetimer -  getSecondsPassed		else			set adTHoutHidedisappear to 0			adTHoutDoor01stubref.disable			adTHoutDoor01ref.disable			adTHoutLightBasin1ref.disable			adTHoutLightFlame01ref.disable			adTHoutLight1ref.disable			PlaySound AMBThunderDistant		endif	endifend

Initially I was trying to put the quest's if block in an entirely different section within the begin OnActivate section, but I thought the game might be ignoring it entirely, so I tried this, with no luck. Is there any other way to go about this?

Are the other commands within the same if statement playing? IE does AMBThunderDistant play?

Everything within the statement works correctly, except the quest. It isn't a problem with the quest itself; it has no conditions, and using SetStage in the console advances it correctly.

Ok, give this a shot. Sometimes just moving things around does the trick. Nested if statements makes all of the parent if statements run again, so if ( GetStage adTHchain01 == 10 ) will also check adTHoutDoor01ref.GetDisabled == 1, which is false since you enabled it first. I'd try moving adTHoutDoor01ref.enable to the very end of the if statement checking it's enable/disable state.

That would probably kill the shader effects. I think I'll move the quest if statement to the start of the main statement, instead of the end. Having the quest message pop up after the shader effects turn on is really just a cosmetic thing, and there's a fairly good chance that natural loading delays will still make it happen.

Um no offence but are you sure about that? Where did you get it from? :huh:

Urgh...I moved the quest if statement to the front of the nested block, and it still failed to run.

I could move it to be its own block at the very front of the script, but I have no idea why that would work when having it in its own block after the shaders thing wouldn't.

No idea what's going on at this point.

How is quest adTHchain01 being set to 10? A different script?
What is the activator? door, container

You may need to add an 'activate' depending on the activator.
begin onactivate
activate
...

The quest gets set to 10 from a scripted book, which is working correctly. The same follows for the parts of the chain after this; it's only this one stage that's giving me trouble.

As for the activator for the problem script, it's a SI "Pull Pod" which works correctly without the quest script added, and with the quest script added STILL works correctly, except for ignoring the quest.

would

 if (GetStageDone adTHchain01 10)

work ?
the name of the quest is adTHchain01 ?

Huh ?
http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/OnActivate- something fishy here

EDIT : search for onactivate in the wiki - forum bug destroys my link :flame:

It also says that activator-type objects (like the pull pod) do not have default activations.

I'll try the GetStageDone method today.

Yes - this means you are using the script on the activator merged with your own ? is the script you posted the complete one ? Try getStgeDone - check it in the wiki

So, the GetStageDone method didn't work either.

At this point I'd really like to just replace the outside door with one that I can assign a script to, but unfortunately there's apparently no way to do that without breaking everything it's linked to.

I'm gonna try using a variable to just execute it once. The first stage of the quest starts as soon as the mod loads anyway; you can avoid activating it, but only if you try really hard, so I'm not too concerned.

I proposed getstagedone cause I was not sure if the stage had advanced beyond 10 - this would explain the thing. Look, post the entire script - if the activator is activated this means you are adding this script on the activator - the script you post is an object script correct ?