Journal entry question..

[newbiemodder]

Man, seems like I'm asking a lot of questions lately...journal question, namely progression of journal entries. Usually, I have a standard llinear order with my journal entries that go with plot progression..(a ) leads (b) which leads to ©..etc....However, how do I do random journal entries?

 

Example.. i have journal entries 10,20,30,40, and 50. Most are triggered via dialogs. But there is no particular set order it is random. My problem is if the dialog for journal entry 50 is triggered first. The remaining journal entries will not show because of the order..can't go backward. Make sense?

[Qui-Gon Glenn]

A quick thought that may work... make duplicates of the random entries? so that all options can come on either side of any other... if that makes sense? Maybe put all of your main entries in 40, 45, 50, 55, 60. Then make dupes of them on either side?

 

Not sure this would work, as it seems WAY too simple

[Hassat Hunter]

It wont work by setting them in dialogs (the questbox in the DLG editor)... but you can force them with script (triggered in the convo then).

 

EDIT (Apparently I screwed up how it works before);

After setting a goal you either have TRUE or FALSE. FALSE means the quest isn't updated if a higher number is already present. TRUE means it *will* be replaced, even if a higher number is higher.

Unlike what I stated before the edit, the only way for quest completion is making it hit a number that's set to complete the goal in globals.jrl, it can't be overwritten by script.

 

Hope that helped.

 

Example (a_geeda_set from TSLRCM 1.8);

void main()
{
int nDxnOpen;
if(GetGlobalNumber("500OND_Civil_War") > 1) nDxnOpen = 1; else nDxnOpen = 0;
int nDanOpen;
if(GetGlobalNumber("602DAN_End") > 0) nDanOpen = 1; else nDanOpen = 0;
int nDxnEst = GetGlobalNumber("301NAR_Geeda_Dxn");
int nDanEst = GetGlobalNumber("301NAR_Geeda_Dan");

int nJournal = GetJournalEntry("NewTradeRoutes");

if (nJournal == 0) return;

if(nDxnEst == 1 && nDanEst == 1)
   {
       AddJournalQuestEntry("NewTradeRoutes", 33, TRUE);
       return;
   }
if(nDxnEst == 1)
   {
	if(nDanOpen == 0)
	{
		AddJournalQuestEntry("NewTradeRoutes", 13, TRUE);
		return;
	}
	if(nDanOpen == 1)
	{
		AddJournalQuestEntry("NewTradeRoutes", 21, TRUE);
		return;
	}
   }
if(nDanEst == 1)
   {
	if(nDxnOpen == 0)
	{
		AddJournalQuestEntry("NewTradeRoutes", 31, TRUE);
		return;
	}
	if(nDxnOpen == 1)
	{
		AddJournalQuestEntry("NewTradeRoutes", 12, TRUE);
		return;
	}
   }
if(nDanOpen == 1 && nDxnOpen ==1)
    {
       AddJournalQuestEntry("NewTradeRoutes", 22, TRUE);
       return;
    }
if(nDanOpen == 1)
    {
       AddJournalQuestEntry("NewTradeRoutes", 21, TRUE);
       return;
    }
if(nDxnOpen == 1)
    {
       AddJournalQuestEntry("NewTradeRoutes", 12, TRUE);
       return;
    }
AddJournalQuestEntry("NewTradeRoutes", 11);
}

[newbiemodder]

Ugh..globals...thanks HH for the info...

[Hassat Hunter]

Well, no need for globals. A simple script like

void main()
{
		AddJournalQuestEntry("RandomScript", 40, TRUE);
}

would work for you, based on what you asked so far ...

[newbiemodder]

Thanks HH..that did it...for some reason I thought it couldn't be done via script either...thanks for the help.