talk fight talk help

[zinervadonella]

I've a talk fight talk sequence in a mod I'm working on and it works perfectly as long as the pc or pnpc only use combat. If the pc or a pnpc uses a force power on the target npc and that force power does enough damage to bring the target's hit points to zero the target dies. I've set Min1HP to 1 in the .utc file and I'm using the scripts found in the talk fight talk tutorial here. How do I keep the force from killing the target?

Thanks.

[Darth333]

Are you sure the change is well saved in the .utc?

 

Or you could simply use a script attached somehwere before the fight occurs:

void main()
{
SetMinOneHP(GetObjectByTag("my_object_tag"),TRUE);
}

[Det. Bart Lasiter]

You could also try just applying the effect as well:

object oTarget = GetObjectByTag("/*tag*/");
ApplyEffectToObject(1, EffectBeam(/*beam parameters*/), oTarget, /*floating-point duration*/);

That way no damage is ever inflicted

[zinervadonella]

Are you sure the change is well saved in the .utc?

 

Positive. Like I said it works perfectly with combat, the target is immortal. When I open the .utc in kgff.exe it says in the min1hp line: Min1HP [Type: Byte] Value:1. It's just when a party member hits the target with a force power that does enough damage to bring the targets hit points below zero the target dies. I'll try the script and see if that works.

thanks

 

p.s. The script didn't work. Any ideas anyone?

[zinervadonella]

That way no damage is ever inflicted

That would defeat the purpose of the talk fight talk sequence. The second dialog happens because the target is beaten into submission in Jedi vs. Sith combat. Light sabers and force powers.

thanks.

[Det. Bart Lasiter]

Should the Min1HP property not work though, that would work and you could still kill the loser of the fight as well with something like:

void main()
{
   /*
   code...
   */

   if (GetCurrentHitPoints(/*object reference*/) == 1)    // You can use this to know when to trigger something
   {
       ApplyEffectToObject(0, EffectDeath(), /*object reference*/);
   }

   /*
   more code...
   */
}

[zinervadonella]

After much experimenting I have determined that the problem has nothing to do with the min1hp setting as if I use the default user define script and spawn script the target becomes immortal.

the spawn script is:

#include "k_inc_generic"

void main()

{

//This will make our user-defined event fire

GN_SetSpawnInCondition(SW_FLAG_EVENT_ON_DAMAGED);

 

GN_SetDayNightPresence( AMBIENT_PRESENCE_ALWAYS_PRESENT);

GN_SetListeningPatterns();

GN_WalkWayPoints();

}

 

the user define script is:

#include "k_inc_generic"

#include "k_inc_utility"

void main()

{

int nCurrentHP;

int nUser = GetUserDefinedEventNumber();

if(nUser == 1006) // DAMAGED

{

nCurrentHP=GetCurrentHitPoints();

if (nCurrentHP<10) {

CancelCombat (OBJECT_SELF);

ClearAllActions();

ChangeToStandardFaction(OBJECT_SELF, 5);

 

//record that we have fought

SetLocalBoolean(OBJECT_SELF,0,TRUE);

 

//Turn off the imortality

SetMinOneHP(OBJECT_SELF,FALSE);

object oPC=GetFirstPC();

ActionDoCommand(ActionStartConversation(oPC));

}

}

}

 

I don't know enough about aurora or oddessy scripting to know what is missing from these scripts. Anyone?

thanks.

[kdsphantom]

Hiya zinervadonella

I just made a mod "phantoms happy halloween mod" I know shameless plug, in it I have 3 zones during making it I learned a bit, the first zone I had a talk fight talk issue just like you describe. Im not sure if I'll be able to help much but I hope to.

 

I was having the same sort of problem in that my party members were killing the guy I was talking to in the talk fight talk fight script. Which it seems your trying to solve same as I was. In my mod, that was in the first part and I was, well I felt running low on time and I just left it and moved on but kept thinking and reading about it, knowing I was going to go back and fix it to make it right. Which looks exactly where you are at.

 

As for your script, wow that is pretty, its alot better then I came up with, and honestly gives me more ideas to use but one thing I was always going to put back into mine was a heal command for the guy, so when we fought again he wasnt as 1 hp or 5 or whatever he was at when we started the 2nd conversation, before dropping his "immortality shield" why not heal him. Like right after the local Boolean goes off? and then what about a 2 second delay ? again before the immortaily shield comes off?

 

well I hope that helps and again if it does it will really help me to solve the same problem I have as well. (If you like PM me and I can send you my source material I used but from seeing your script heh yours looks better then mine.)

kdsphantom

[zinervadonella]

... but from seeing your script heh yours looks better then mine.

kdsphantom

 

Mine comes from the tutorial in the tutorial section. I'm just not sure if I'm doing it right.

[kdsphantom]

hiya zinervadonella

hehe thats where I got mine from, and yours still looks better then mine, Did you try the delay and heal effects? and did they help any?

but it looks like your doing it right, how does it work out when you playtest it?

The creature in question still sometimes get killed earlier then you like?

kdsphantom

[zinervadonella]

hiya zinervadonella

how does it work out when you playtest it?

The creature in question still sometimes get killed earlier then you like?

kdsphantom

 

yep.

 

Haven't tried the effects yet, no time at the moment. will try soon.