making new rumors

[notasophist]

is there a tutorial for adding more rumours into "tavern talk"? if there is one, i'd aprecciate it if someone could direct me to it.

 

thanks

[Kulyok]

Adding more rumors? Not doing a new tavern with new rumors?

 

Okay, this is assuming you know how dialogue files work in BG2:

 

Adding more rumors is fairly simple: you have to open your tavern via NI and look at which dialogue file it uses.

 

Then you append new states to this dialogue file. Make sure they do show by adding WEIGHT #-1 or something.

[Avenger]

The best rumours are event driven.

So their triggering condition isn't a simple True()

[Kulyok]

Yep, Trademeet's tavern is a good example.

[notasophist]

thanks your help people. i think i could handle this.

[devSin]

So their triggering condition isn't a simple True()

Rumors are normal dialogues in BG2, so you have to use RandomNum() to get the right behavior. And thanks to probabilities and weights, the original rumors are all pretty broken.

 

Worst was where no condition would be true and you'd get a run of empty space instead of a rumor (adding event-based rumors is difficult for precisely this reason). I think my fixes got dumped into the fixpack, which should effectively cap off the bottom (assuming you take the WEIGHT #-1 route).

[Avenger]

Hmm, i thought rumours get selected randomly from ALL available rumours whose condition evaluated true.

 

I'm sure i do it like that for gemrb, but i think i also tested it with BG2.

[Kulyok]

I tested it, and it's just like triggering a dialogue file, no difference whatsoever, yep.

 

(It was very funny, when I decided to pop Xan's flirts instead of tavern rumors, just for a private view).

[devSin]

Yeah, there's no special handling at all. The first true state wins. If no states are true, you get a few blank lines.

[Nythrun]

That stuff made it into the Fixpack, yes.

 

People finally get the news when Reijack is busted

[Avenger]

Ok, you all should be right

I just assumed it works like that because i wrote GemRB like that, hehe.

Probably because it should work like that