[sKY] I need help placing a book

[Dogrules23]

I am making a quest mod and creating lore for the dungeon but I can't place it anywhere and have it available to take. I have in in Belethor's shop right now but when I read it it says that I can steal it. I don't want to have the player steal it. I want it to be able to be taken without stealing but I can't get it to work. Thanks in advance!

[Hanaisse]

Placing an object in a cell owned by an NPC gives ownership of all objects in that cell to that NPC, hence the "steal" trigger. The player will still be able to 'read' it and you can start your quest on that trigger, the player just cannot take it. Couple of other things you can do..

1. Place it in a public space.

2. Open the books reference box and set ownership to player.

[HeyYou]

Make sure you set ownership to either none, or, player.... Not sure what the exact term is...... putting it belethors shop, magically makes it his.

[Dogrules23]

Thanks!

[Dogrules23]

Now that I have that book placed, I need to add in a quest objective that sends the player to get the book. Before, the player would talk to the NPC then be directed to the dungeon. I made sure the index number for the new objective was between the start up and the first objective but I'm not sure how to make it so that you talk to the NPC then are directed to the book.

[Hanaisse]

This all depends on how you've set up your Quest Stages. Typical set up is naming stages in increments of 10 (0, 10, 20, 30..) so that you can easily go back and add intermediate stages between the major objectives.

So, basically..

0 - start up

10 - talk to NPC

20 - go to dungeon

Would now turn into..

0 - start up

10 - talk to NPC

15 - go read book

20 - go to dungeon

If you haven't set your quest stages intitially with room to grow, you might just have to start over again.

[Dogrules23]

I have it as:

0 - start up

5 - read book

10 - kill wizard

20 - get sword

30 - return sword

40 - close

 

It seems to skip over 5.

[Hanaisse]

Your 0 start up should actually be blank. From what you said above the quest will actually start with talking to the NPC. So add stages between 0-5 to include that.

[Dogrules23]

The start up is blank. I thought the start up would be when I talked to the NPC.

[Dogrules23]

I still can't figure out how to fix it.

[Hanaisse]

How is your quest set up? What are your stages?

[Dogrules23]

Here's screenshots of all my stages: 

[Hanaisse]

I'm no expert on quests, but to me that looks like you may be confusing quest stages with quest objectives. You don't need a log entry for every stage, just one overall.

I'd suggest you go through that CK Wiki tutorial, starting with quest stages (then click through the next tutorial links) to get a better idea how to set up your quest.

[Dogrules23]

I'm at the part where I need to do some scripting but I keep getting something that says, "The extends script does not exist, please pick one that does." I've tried everything I could find on google and none of it worked.

[Hanaisse]

What are you trying to extend? Post your script.

Also, have you unpacked the scripts.rar archive in your Data folder that came with the last CK update?

[Dogrules23]

I couldn't even create the script correctly. I unpacked the rar to my Data>scripts>Source folder like one place said.

[Hanaisse]

Alright, then explain what your script is for and how you're creating it.

[Dogrules23]

It's so that after talking to the NPC you're sent to get the book I placed. I was trying to create it by double clicking the NPC and clicking on New in the Papyrus Scripts section.

[Hanaisse]

You do all that in your quest stage, not on the NPC.

[Dogrules23]

I can't do anything because the scripts that are there aren't loaded so I can't see what they say or said.

[Dogrules23]

I redid the scripting and it works now but it completes stage 5, getting the book, before you even leave the Bannered Mare.

Edited July 8, 2016 by Dogrules23

[Dogrules23]

I fixed that but now I need something to recognize when the book is picked up. I did find this:

 

ScriptName SetStageOnPlayerPickUp Extends ObjectReference

Actor Property PlayerREF Auto
Quest property QuestToSet Auto
Int Property iStageToSet Auto

Event OnContainerChanged(ObjectReference akNewContainer, ObjectReference akOldContainer)
	If akNewContainer == PlayerREF
		QuestToSet.SetStage(iStageToSet)
		GoToState("Taken")
	EndIf
EndEvent

State Taken
	; Do nothing
EndState

I'm not sure where it goes though.

Edited July 8, 2016 by Dogrules23

[Dogrules23]

I changed my idea a bit. Instead of the player just picking up a book, there will be a "random encounter" type of NPC that has the book. The player will have to find this person to get the book.

[Dogrules23]

Now I just need the script to get the NPC to hand over the book.