IWD2 scripting question

[Domi]

It's a 2-part question:

 

As far as I can tell there is no (?) background running script (ie the same as baldur/baldur25). There is baldur.bcs there, but it does not seem to do anything. Is there one I am missing?

 

If there aren't any, what I am working on is the following:

 

All party members have the same script assigned to them:

 

DPLAYER3.BCS.

 

What I am trying to do, is to make Player1 dialogue him/herself once the Hot Key is pressed:

 

IF
  HotKey(P)
  IsPlayerNumber("charbase",1)
THEN
  RESPONSE #100
  ActionOverride(Player1,StartDialogueNoSet(Myself))
END

 

By self-explanatory reason, upon pressing the hot-key, the action occurs as many times as there are NPCs in the party. What I am looking for is some sort of a check that allows me to have a trigger that says that only the creature with a specified death variable runs the script. Anything I can do short of deleting the DPLAYER3.BCS from all the joinable NPCs (it's empty anyways)?

[Avenger]

To identify the joinables (dunno if this was your problem):

 

0x40D0 IsScriptName(S:ScriptName*,O:Object*)

 

Or you can assign them specific ids (like in PST).

 

0x401D Specifics(O:Object*,I:Specifics*Specific)

[Avenger]

Btw, who told you there is no baldur.bcs running in iwd2???

The rest check i told you earlier works with THAT!!!

 

baldur.bcs:

IF

Checkstat(Player1,0,FATIGUE)

THEN

RESPONSE #100

Displaystring(Player1,3) // ~Mon SmSword d6 Slash~

Changestat(Player1,FATIGUE,1,SET)

END

[Avenger]

Ok, there is something weird going on in iwd2.

When i moved to another area, baldur.bcs stopped running.

It resumed when i reloaded the saved game.

This makes the stuff quite unreliable.

Probably they wanted to remove it completely...

[Domi]

Yes, that's what I saw with Baldur as well - it flat out did not work for me in the area I was in. You're probably right, they disabled the thing. IWd2 often kicks out as 'almost the same, but different" kindda thing.

 

EDIT: Brilliant! IsScriptName("charbase",Myself) eliminates the problem! thank you! And while I was at it, it hit me that IsPlayerNumber(Myself,1) would have done the trick. Well, now I have a fool-proof check (if there is such thing, lol) and can initiate dialogues with joinable NPCs in IWD2 to my little heart's content. Thanks again, Avenger and the Bigg!

[Kulyok]

One year later, I have the same question for IWD.

 

Only, IsScriptName and IsPlayerNumber aren't available there, and I am not sure how this one works:

0x401D Specifics(O:Object*,I:Specifics*Specific)

 

Is there a way?

[Avenger]

Specifics checks the 'SPECIFICS' stat of of a creature.

It is the 0x2dc byte in the .cre file.

[Kulyok]

Okay, got it, thank you! It's working now.

 

Just in case someone might need it in the future, here is the code:

(I remembered the rule about One Byte, too)

 

DPLAYER3.baf

IF
HotKey(K)
!Specifics(Myself,168)
!StateCheck(Myself,CD_STATE_NOTVALID)
THEN
RESPONSE #100
ActionOverride(Player1,StartDialogueNoSet(Myself))
END

To each NPC script:

IF
!Specifics(Myself,168)
THEN
RESPONSE #100
ChangeSpecifics(Myself,168)
END

 

And, finally, the dialogue: MULTIG.d

(since it gets assigned to all protagonists/custom chars automatically).

 

BEGIN MULTIG

CHAIN IF ~True()~ THEN MULTIG PID
~[...]~

 

Now my only worry is compatibility: what if another mod needs MULTIG(which hasn't existed before, hence my BEGIN MULTIG) for some reason? I guess they are going to be in trouble, right?