Script to make a character do a feat during dialogue??

[mgnails]

I am setting up a fight sequence right now, but i want to know what the script is that makes a character attack something while in dialogue. Like bastilla useing the lightsaber throw feat on malak at the leviathan just before she was captured.

[tk102]

Never tried it myself, but take a look at the CutSceneAttack function in nwscript.nss.

[tk102]

The following .ncs files use that function:

 

K_END_CUT2_FGHT.NCS: 1

K_END_PLOT.NCS: 1

K_KAS_XORDIEJUHA.NCS: 1

K_PDAN_ROMANCE46.NCS: 1

K_PEND_CAMERA.NCS: 2

K_PEND_CUT1_1.NCS: 3

K_PEND_CUT1_2.NCS: 2

K_PEND_CUT1_3.NCS: 3

K_PEND_CUT2_1.NCS: 2

K_PEND_CUT2_2.NCS: 3

K_PEND_CUT2_3.NCS: 2

K_PEND_EXPLOSION.NCS: 2

K_PEND_JUMP.NCS: 6

K_PEND_ROOM5_02.NCS: 2

K_PEND_UD_CUT2.NCS: 1

K_PLEV_BASTATK.NCS: 1

K_PLEV_CARTHATK.NCS: 1

K_PLEV_FINALE2.NCS: 1

K_PLEV_JUCS2.NCS: 1

K_PMAN_27_SITH_D.NCS: 3

K_PMAN_PLAYER42.NCS: 1

K_PSTA_BASTATK.NCS: 1

K_PSTA_PCATK.NCS: 1

K_PTAR_BASTESC0.NCS: 1

K_PTAR_GANGCS1.NCS: 1

K_PTAR_GANGCS1A.NCS: 1

K_PTAR_GANGCS1B.NCS: 1

K_PTAR_MALAK2CS1.NCS: 1

K_PUNK_FIGHT03.NCS: 1

K_PUNK_FIGHT05.NCS: 1

K_PUNK_RAKATK2.NCS: 1

K_PUNK_RANCOR_UD.NCS: 3

K_STA_BASTEXE.NCS: 1

[tk102]

That CutsceneAttack is pretty sensitive. Like the documentation says, you have to make sure that you call the right animation. Combat animations are found in animations.2da and referenced again in both combatanimations.2da and weaponsdischarge.2da. If you get the wrong animation, the NPC will perform an attack animation, but not a real attack.

 

I was able to get Trask to shoot me during the Endar Spire dialog.

 

To try this out, download these files. Start a new game and after the opening dialog, before you put on your clothes, talk to Trask again and ask him to repeat himself.

[Doom_Dealer]

lol, brilliant

[Darth333]

This is an example of force lightning with damage. You can control the duration and the amount of damage that is caused - this one should kill the npc you are talking to-. There is certainly a more simple (and better) way to make this script (you tell me where i can cut TK) but it works.

 

void main()

{

ActionPauseConversation();

 

AssignCommand(GetFirstPC(), ActionCastFakeSpellAtObject(FORCE_POWER_LIGHTNING, OBJECT_SELF));

 

float fDuration = 5.0f;

float fSpeed = 1.0f;

ActionPlayAnimation(ANIMATION_LOOPING_DEAD, fSpeed, fDuration);

 

object oPC = GetPCSpeaker();

 

effect eEffect;

eEffect = EffectDamage(200, DAMAGE_TYPE_DARK_SIDE, DAMAGE_POWER_PLUS_FIVE);

 

ApplyEffectToObject(DURATION_TYPE_INSTANT, eEffect, OBJECT_SELF);

 

object oTarget;

oTarget = OBJECT_SELF;

 

int nInt;

nInt = GetObjectType(oTarget);

 

if (nInt != OBJECT_TYPE_WAYPOINT) ApplyEffectToObject(DURATION_TYPE_INSTANT, EffectVisualEffect(VFX_PRO_LIGHTNING_L), oTarget);

else ApplyEffectAtLocation(DURATION_TYPE_INSTANT, EffectVisualEffect(VFX_PRO_LIGHTNING_L), GetLocation(oTarget));

ActionResumeConversation();

}

[tk102]

Heh heh heh. Kill 'em all Darth333!

 

Yes that script should work fine. At your request it could be slimmed to this:

void main() {
ActionPauseConversation();
object oPC=GetPCSpeaker();
effect eDamage= EffectDamage(200, DAMAGE_TYPE_DARK_SIDE, DAMAGE_POWER_PLUS_FIVE);
AssignCommand(oPC, ActionCastFakeSpellAtObject(FORCE_POWER_LIGHTNING, OBJECT_SELF));
ApplyEffectToObject(DURATION_TYPE_INSTANT, EffectVisualEffect(VFX_PRO_LIGHTNING_L), OBJECT_SELF);
ApplyEffectToObject(DURATION_TYPE_INSTANT, eDamage, OBJECT_SELF);
ActionPlayAnimation(ANIMATION_LOOPING_DEAD, 1.0, 5.0);
ActionResumeConversation();    // yeah right :-)
}

[Darth333]

Thanks!

[mgnails]

thanks for the help!! Thats one of the scripts that i didn't know how to do. But, If i wanted someone to use a feat, would i simply replace force lightning power with the feat name from feats.2da?

[tk102]

I think it would depend on the feat. CutsceneAttack would be used for general attacks and ActionCastFakeSpell would be used for casting spells. If your feat has a specific animation, you could use ActionPlayAnimation and ApplyEffectToObject as necessary.

[Darth333]

After a quick look to the nwscript.nss i found these animations:

ANIMATION_FIREFORGET_THROW_HIGH

ANIMATION_FIREFORGET_THROW_LOW

 

Haven't tried them but i guess from the title that it's saber throw.

 

There maybe some more.

[tk102]

If those don't work, try using values 69 or 70, which are the row number for saber throwing in animations.2da.