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Development => Development Team Blog => Topic started by: Venalan on December 10, 2016, 04:36:19 pm
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So for a while I've wanted to try and open up the back end of quest writing so that people can really see what goes on, because there really is very little offical documentation regarding the whole process. The end goal would be to have enough information avaible that people could write a fully quest and submit it to me and it would just ... work.
To this end, I'm making available the 5 current tutorial quests, and a manual (of sorts) I've written which details base quest set up and what sort of functions we have available.
The files are vailable here (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/syayy5kms8hyewa/AAB3TFmFcgXMdKYHk5r-WWMTa?dl=0)
If you have an interest in the quest systen them please take a look at these, any questions you have please ask here and I'll explain.
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Thank you a lot for this Venalan. I will make good use of it. :)
It seems quite clear to my eyes, except something that I haven't been able to find in your guide : what is the syntax for having a npc calling the player character by his/her/kra name, something like "Oh, hey PlayerName, what's news ?"
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$Player name (?)
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Close, but actually without a space or capital P. ( $playername )
There is also $playerrace ( for use in cases like "NPC: my my, what a strong $playerrace you are...")
Also from an RP perspective, you should always consider if an NPC is supposed to know your name before using $playername :)
But Venalan can likely provide more accurate guidelines on that.
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Totally hadn't noticed this was missing so I've added the following.
There are a number of wild cards that can be used, they include
$playername – This adds the player’s name
$playerrace – This adds the player’s race
$sir – This shows the player correct version of Sir/Madam/Gemma
$his – This show the player correct version of his/her/kras
$time – This adds ‘night’ (0:00-6:00) ‘morning’ (6:01-12:00) ‘afternoon’ (12:01-18:00) or ‘evening’ (18:01-23:59) based on in game time.
$npc – this adds in the NPC name
Example,
P: dummy.
Menu: Hello $npc, good $time. I am $sir $playername, the best of all $playerrace.
Harnquist : [Harnquist looks at $playername, then $his boots, and laughs.]
A male Dermorian call Venalan talking to Harnquist at 10:00am will see
Menu: Hello Harnquist, good morning. I am Sir Venalan, the best of all Dermorian.
Harnquist: [Harnquist looks at Venalan, then his boots, and laughs.]
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I added another file which has examples for the majority of the base things we use in game currently.
And to answer ravna about when to use $playername. We have no system to know globally if an NPC knows a player's name (except if the npc and player are both klyros when the npc should always use the player's name). So it is really a judgment quest by quest as to how or if we use the name.
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Something else...
We have a web based quest validator which should point out to you all the syntax errors in your script. But it won't point out any logic errors in how you have written the script, or if you have written the quest badly in terms of how you -should- write a quest. But you have people like me for pointing that stuff out to you.
http://planeshift.teamix.org/questvalidator/prospectQuestValidator.php
All you need to do is write in the quest name, paste in the script and click validate. If you are making new npcs or items those will always give errors as they may not exsist yet, but as long as the name you are using is the name which will be used it is fine to ignore it.
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Bump! I'm starting to look through this myself.
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Bump! I'm starting to look through this myself.
Why does this need a bump less than 24hrs after the last post :P
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Because a lot of people only skim the forum index page. Many people only look to see what is on the recent thread list at the bottom then don't dig further, but I don't want this thread to drop too far from being visible. It was my fault that it got bumped from the most recent threads widget, so I bumped it back up.
Edit: And I've promptly gone and buried it again... :-\ *sighs*
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Totally hadn't noticed this was missing so I've added the following.
There are a number of wild cards that can be used, they include
$playername – This adds the player’s name
$playerrace – This adds the player’s race
$sir – This shows the player correct version of Sir/Madam/Gemma
$his – This show the player correct version of his/her/kras
$time – This adds ‘night’ (0:00-6:00) ‘morning’ (6:01-12:00) ‘afternoon’ (12:01-18:00) or ‘evening’ (18:01-23:59) based on in game time.
$npc – this adds in the NPC name
Example,
P: dummy.
Menu: Hello $npc, good $time. I am $sir $playername, the best of all $playerrace.
Harnquist : [Harnquist looks at $playername, then $his boots, and laughs.]
A male Dermorian call Venalan talking to Harnquist at 10:00am will see
Menu: Hello Harnquist, good morning. I am Sir Venalan, the best of all Dermorian.
Harnquist: [Harnquist looks at Venalan, then his boots, and laughs.]
This looks amazing and I'm going to have to play with some short cuts in game as well so see if these not only work for quests for shortcuts with targeted players. Would be very useful for events and really just my guard character could use several of these. Thanks!
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Check the Help->Interface->shortcuts for similar wildcards:
- $target (uses the targeted item/player/npc)
- $race (refers to target's race)
- $sir (refers to the target's gender)
- $guild (refers to target's guild) (still have to find a practical use for it)
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Notice: this is about shortcuts, not quests! (also offtopic, so if you want a more in depth post about it, make a new topic) :)
Shortcuts have their own (different) set of variables:
$target $race $guild and $sir
$target being your targets name, $race being their race and $guild being their guild name and $sir being either sir/madam/gemma
These variables only work if you have a target selected while you use that shortcut.
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Notice: this is about shortcuts, not quests! (also offtopic, so if you want a more in depth post about it, make a new topic) :)
Shortcuts have their own (different) set of variables:
$target $race $guild and $sir
$target being your targets name, $race being their race and $guild being their guild name and $sir being either sir/madam/gemma
These variables only work if you have a target selected while you use that shortcut.
:oops: Yes sorry it was :offtopic:. My bad!
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I just updated the quest making manual with a few corrections.
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Since many repeatable quests for various crafts are in place already, is there anything missing one could try their hand at? Some of us are not as imaginable as others.
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For glyphs? I would try asking around in places that deal with magic.
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Since many repeatable quests for various crafts are in place already, is there anything missing one could try their hand at? Some of us are not as imaginable as others.
There are always things needing done. There is a Mace making skill quest done. Other crafts still to be done are:
Blade making.
Shield making.
armour making.
bow making.
I would be happy to assist/guide anyone who wishes to make any of these (or others I have not mentioned). PM me, catch me on IRC or maybe even in game :sorcerer:.
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So the current skills we have implemented are as follows;
Alchemy
Axe or sword or ranged or kives & dagger or mace & hammer or melee or polearm & spear (you can pick one each quest completion)
Baking
Cooking
Empathy
Fishing
Harvesting
Herbal
Minning
Mace making is basically complete, thanks to Tuathanach.
We need all other skills completing. Skills like jeweley making or leather working could be simple 'make me X' *get a level*, where as things like lock picking, body development and music could (and maybe should) be more story based as we can not check someone can play or compose music so the quests could be short tasks which are highly variable where you get a level once your done, like the variable quest where your given travel tokens.
I suggest you try and come and talk with me about doing any of these quests either on IRC or when i'm in game. I'm always very hapy to with a player again to make more of these skill based quests.