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[Brunt]

Once again...wanna thank Syntax for doing a great job :)



Maybe you can add Quests menu under the Edit menu.



What are the basics to a quest?

NPCs, Items, Bosses, Rooms, text blocks...maybe put all of these under 1 edit window.



Not sure how it would look, or work...maybe give each quest a name, then apply..you edit the quest the way you want, and it stores it into its own file, then maybe apply it to the dats, that way when you want to make a new quest, or edit the existing one..it just has to look at the 1 dat file, instead of searching through them all...untill you want to apply it, unless it needs to verify things...I dunno, just a suggestion.



P.S. I cant wait for the import feature to work :)

[dxpac666]

Quests can be very difficult to do. I just made a quest last week, and finally got it working properly last night. It was a stupid mistake that was keeping it from working, I had a space where it didn't belong. But if you have something specific you want done, lemme know and I might be able to help you out.

[syntax53]

This is a good idea, and I can already picture how it would work. If we knew which textblocks/items/spells/etc pertained to each quest, we could store that info in a "quests" textfile. The Edit --> Quests menu item would read the textfile and display everything on a form. You would be able to easily edit each component of the quest from the form just by clicking an edit button next to the component (textblock, item, etc) record number to have it jump there for editing. We would need a very acurate list of record numbers for all the components of each quest though. I am still waiting on textblock numbers for the alignment quests. Anyone wanna volunteer? :)



-syntax

[Demonic]

ill play around with it and see what blocks i can come up with. i have nothing better to do

[MrBlack]

Don't forget to have it keep track of the ability flag and value your using for each stage of the quest heh

[dxpac666]

Do you need just the reward text block, or the one that starts the quest, or what? Or do you wanna know every text block that's involved with the alignment quests?

[syntax53]

Originally posted by dxpac666

Do you need just the reward text block, or the one that starts the quest, or what? Or do you wanna know every text block that's involved with the alignment quests?



everything

[syntax53]

Here is an email I sent to demonic further explaining my 'vision' on this:





This is what I'm thinking; It would be a list box, that works sorta like the registry editing window with the +'s and -'s (expanding) menu items. Each "folder" name would be a quest title and below it in each section would be a list of all the textblocks that pertain to it. When you clicked on one of those textblock numbers it would show a description of what the textblock is doing and how it progresses the quest. At this point there would also be an edit button to jump to the record in the textblock editor for editing. Everything would be customizable be a simple textfile. The textfile would look like:



####

#

# any line beginning with a '#' is ignored

# any line beginning with a '-' is considered a section

# any line beginning with a '--' is considered a sub-section

# everything listed beneath a section is considered part of that section

#

# lines should be in the following format:

#

# textblock number|part number|link to number|description

#

####



-Good Alignment Quest

--First Part

316|0|317|These are the command's that you give to to ask about the good quest.







Etc etc etc

[Xetox]

Originally posted by Brunt

Once again...wanna thank Syntax for doing a great job :)



Maybe you can add Quests menu under the Edit menu.



What are the basics to a quest?

NPCs, Items, Bosses, Rooms, text blocks...maybe put all of these under 1 edit window.



Not sure how it would look, or work...maybe give each quest a name, then apply..you edit the quest the way you want, and it stores it into its own file, then maybe apply it to the dats, that way when you want to make a new quest, or edit the existing one..it just has to look at the 1 dat file, instead of searching through them all...untill you want to apply it, unless it needs to verify things...I dunno, just a suggestion.



P.S. I cant wait for the import feature to work :)



Agree's even tho I dont play any more.......seems like finaly nitemare has become what we all hoped it would along time ago!

[syntax53]

Demonic sent me this a little bit ago. Props to him for helping out.





-Good Alignment Quest



--First Part (wounded messenger)

316|0|317|commands given to wounded messenger

317|0|0|greet text

318|0|325|MISSION command given to wounded messenger

325|0|346|flag check

346|0|0|dialog text



--Second Part (guildmaster)

326|0|327|commands give to guildmaster

327|0|0|greet text

328|0|0|STRANGERS command given to guildmaster

329|0|330|WOUNDED MESSENGER command given to guildmaster

330|0|331|flag check

331|0|0|dialog that gives approval from guildmaster



--Third Part (wounded messenger)

323|0|324|GUILDMASTER command given to wounded messenger

324|0|332|flag check

332|0|0|dialog text

333|0|334|ACCEPT command given to wounded messenger

334|0|0|flag check



--Fourth Part (chancellor annora)

335|0|336|commands give to annora

336|0|0|greet text

337|0|338|LETTER command given to annora

338|0|339|flag check

339|0|0|dialog text

339|1|0|dialog text



--Fifth Part (commander markus)

347|0|348|commands given to markus

348|0|0|greet text

349|0|350|LETTER command give to markus

350|0|351|flag check

351|0|0|dialog of box being given



--Sixth Part (chancellor annora)

352|0|353|RETURN command given to annora

353|0|354|flag check

354|0|0|dialog of finishing quest and gaining exp.