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About comments in the QBN section
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 10:42 am
by haloterm
I've stumbled again upon something I don't quite understand.
The following code is running fine (it's used in a quest that will practically never expire, so the item given by the quest will stick with the player):
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Clock _Infinity_ 10000.00:00
start timer _Infinity_
give pc _BHCIssue_ notify 1020
start quest MDBHC001
-- our very long timer just exists; it does nothing
_Infinity_ task:
The following variant (where I simply added some comments ) not -- the quest does simply not start when I start it in the console:
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Clock _Infinity_ 10000.00:00
start timer _Infinity_
-- give player the Black Horse Courier issue
give pc _BHCIssue_ notify 1020
-- start the first real quest in the questline
start quest MDBHC001
-- our very long timer just exists; it does nothing
_Infinity_ task:
I was assuming that a line beginning with a "-" is a comment and that I can add such a comment anywhere in the file.
Apparently not. The quest does start when I remove the new comments.
Can somebody explain why this is the case?
Re: About comments in the QBN section
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 11:31 pm
by Interkarma
Comment lines are ignored, but empty line breaks are used to determine when a task block ends. For example, the following is one task block:
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give pc _BHCIssue_ notify 1020
start quest MDBHC001
And the following ends after only one instruction as it reaches an empty line break:
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give pc _BHCIssue_ notify 1020
start quest MDBHC001
At this point, The parser will discard everything after the empty line break and scan for the next task/variable header. I'm not able to test right now, but I believe the following might work (no empty line break):
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-- give player the Black Horse Courier issue
give pc _BHCIssue_ notify 1020
-- start the first real quest in the questline
start quest MDBHC001
Empty line breaks are also used to end text blocks. Rather than just whitespace, think of them as part of the TEMPLATE syntax.
Re: About comments in the QBN section
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 11:36 pm
by haloterm
Interkarma wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2020 11:31 pm
empty line breaks are used to determine when a task block ends.
Ah, I see! Thank you!
Making good progress with my little quest line on the Black Horse Courier's attempts to expand from Cyrodiil to the Iliac Bay. I have finished the 4th quest today (plus 2 other quest files for initialization purposes).
Re: About comments in the QBN section
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 1:14 am
by Interkarma
Awesome, keep at it. Can never have too many new quests to play.
Re: About comments in the QBN section
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 1:32 am
by haloterm
Interkarma wrote: ↑Wed Feb 05, 2020 1:14 am
Awesome, keep at it. Can never have too many new quests to play.
My goal with the quests is to give reasons to visit certain towns or regions, and to stay there for a while, to get to know the places better / make them less anonymous. The Black Horse Courier quests focus mostly on Daggerfall, and often even just on the city.
Later, I want to create questlines for other areas as well, to give players a reason to stay there a bit longer. Today I found a beautiful little farm near the eastern border of the Dragontail mountains; the area looks awesome with the Distant Terrain mod, and maybe my next questline (if my first gets finished) will play there.
Re: About comments in the QBN section
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 11:43 pm
by Hazelnut
haloterm wrote: ↑Wed Feb 05, 2020 1:32 am
Interkarma wrote: ↑Wed Feb 05, 2020 1:14 am
Awesome, keep at it. Can never have too many new quests to play.
My goal with the quests is to give reasons to visit certain towns or regions, and to stay there for a while, to get to know the places better / make them less anonymous. The Black Horse Courier quests focus mostly on Daggerfall, and often even just on the city.
Later, I want to create questlines for other areas as well, to give players a reason to stay there a bit longer. Today I found a beautiful little farm near the eastern border of the Dragontail mountains; the area looks awesome with the Distant Terrain mod, and maybe my next questline (if my first gets finished) will play there.
If you need help targetting specific locations let me know. You will need to extend the places table for this to work which means you will need to release a dfmod package and not just a questpack for this to work. My Roleplay & Realism mod has a quest that does this, so see that for an example. For the time being while developing the quests you can just edit your local the StreamingAssets/tables/placesTable.txt file - that's what I did until I was ready to release my quest.
Re: About comments in the QBN section
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2020 12:33 am
by haloterm
Hazelnut wrote: ↑Wed Feb 05, 2020 11:43 pm
haloterm wrote: ↑Wed Feb 05, 2020 1:32 am
Interkarma wrote: ↑Wed Feb 05, 2020 1:14 am
Awesome, keep at it. Can never have too many new quests to play.
My goal with the quests is to give reasons to visit certain towns or regions, and to stay there for a while, to get to know the places better / make them less anonymous. The Black Horse Courier quests focus mostly on Daggerfall, and often even just on the city.
Later, I want to create questlines for other areas as well, to give players a reason to stay there a bit longer. Today I found a beautiful little farm near the eastern border of the Dragontail mountains; the area looks awesome with the Distant Terrain mod, and maybe my next questline (if my first gets finished) will play there.
If you need help targetting specific locations let me know. You will need to extend the places table for this to work which means you will need to release a dfmod package and not just a questpack for this to work.
Hm, so far I just think about using farms, shacks and shrines -- I was hoping that I can use these to place NPCs, items and foes in the usual way. Or does this not work? I do not plan to add new places at this time.
Re: About comments in the QBN section
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2020 5:01 pm
by Hazelnut
You can use the places to do all that stuff, but most quests only allow you to select a type of place randomly from the region. So if you wanted a specific farm location rather than just a random farm from the region which is what I was talking about from what I thought you had said.
Re: About comments in the QBN section
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2020 5:11 pm
by Jay_H
Shrines don't allow NPC placement normally. I'm not sure about shacks; I know house1-4 have been using them as locations but I don't know if you can target them using a parameter.