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[Essande]

I'm attempting to make a pair of NPCs that both join and leave the party together. I am aware that Jaheira and Kahlid and Minsc and his old witch do so in BG1 but I can't find the code for that.

[Andyr]

I think it might just involve an ActionOverride("blah",LeaveParty()) at the end of each of the pair's chuckout dialogue to get rid of the other one. Not tried it personally, though.

[Essande]

Thanks for the code Andyr. I haven't been able to test it though, I want one of the NPCs to join only if you have the first one in your party and I'm still working the bugs out on that. On a side note, does anybody know the code for the magic license in Amn?

[Andyr]

For the first part, you'd want an InParty check on the dialogue branch where you ask the second NPC to join.

As for the Magic License, I don't know the variables offhand but try looking at the actors in the Government Building to get the .CRE file, then peer into his dialogue.

[Essande]

Andyr, again thank you. I had tried the InParty check before and it wasn't working so I changed it all together. And I found the magic license thing. Now I'm attempting to install the mod but it says that one of the files ******J isn't in the chitin.key so it won't compile one of my .d files and that just stops the whole thing. What I'm trying to do in the dialogue is have interaction between my two characters and the PC but EXTERN doesn't seem to be working. Is this just reserved for the banter files? If it's not I'd like to know what I'm doing wrong and if it is I'm open to suggestions on how to rearrange my text.

[Deathsangel]

Can you not alike Andyr's Idea do in their script

IF
!InParty("Other-NPC")
THEN
RESPONSE 100#
Dialog(Player1)
END

The dialog would be a line like: "Why do you kick Other-NPC out? You know this will make me go as well don't you?" then EXTERN to the kick out dialog as if that person would be kicked out

Edited by Deathsangel, 19 April 2005 - 06:54 AM.

[Andyr]

Andyr, again thank you.  I had tried the InParty check before and it wasn't working so I changed it all together.  And I found the magic license thing.  Now I'm attempting to install the mod but it says that one of the files ******J isn't in the chitin.key so it won't compile one of my .d files and that just stops the whole thing.  What I'm trying to do in the dialogue is have interaction between my two characters and the PC but EXTERN doesn't seem to be working. Is this just reserved for the banter files? If it's not I'd like to know what I'm doing wrong and if it is I'm open to suggestions on how to rearrange my text.

Can you post your .tp2? And the name of the **J file it says it cannot find?

EXTERN works anywhere, if you post the code you're using I will try and help.

[CamDawg]

If they're crossreferenced to one another, you're better off compiling them all together so WeiDU has the full range of internal state names available.

COMPILE ~Tiva and Isa\Isa\Isa.d~
         ~Tiva and Isa\Isa\BIsa.d~
         ~Tiva and Isa\Isa\IsaP.d~
         ~Tiva and Isa\Isa\IsaJ.d~
         ~Tiva and Isa\Tiva\Tiva.d~
         ~Tiva and Isa\Tiva\BTiva.d~
         ~Tiva and Isa\Tiva\TivaP.d~
         ~Tiva and Isa\Tiva\TivaJ.d~

[Essande]

Thank you CamDawg, the error is gone. Unfortunately I have another one. Please excuse my stupidity it's probably something extremely simple but I want to make one of my characters interject the other one, and since they'll always be together I didn't bother using InParty checks but that's not the problem. I used EXTERN in the command but now it's not reading the label when I want the text ot go back to the original speaker.

IF ~~ THEN BEGIN S1
SAY ~blah~
IF ~~ THEN EXTERN ISAJ S2
END

APPEND ISAJ
IF ~~ THEN BEGIN S2
SAY ~blah~
IF ~~ THEN EXTERN TIVA S3
END
END

This is what I have. The APPEND is at the end of the file so I can't figure out what's wrong. Again, sorry for being a nuisance.

[CamDawg]

If it's NPC-NPC banter, your life will be much simpler with a CHAIN.

CHAIN TIVA S1 ~blah~ // tiva's s1
== ISAJ ~blah~ // isaj's s2
== TIVA ~blah~ // tiva's s3
// more if necessary
END

You could continue adding to the CHAIN as long as you needed, and you can end the dialogue, send it to another dialogue state, or offer PC replies as needed at the end of the CHAIN.

[Essande]

Thanks CamDawg but I found the problem with my old code and fixed it. It installs now. Thanks.