Some introduction dialogue

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I need some help with some scripting. What i want to do is that when the player has created his character and is spawned into the gameworld, i want an invisible character "Introduction" to start speaking to him and i dont want the PC to be able to start moving untill this dialouge has been completed. How would i do this? I understand that i must put some script to initiate dialouge somewhere, but im not sure where or how this would look like, can anyone explain to me?

[ December 18, 2002, 17:01: Message edited by: Taluntain ]

 

Okay what you are asking about is called in game cinematics. The best resource for this is an forum discussion that talks about the new cinematic possibilites are now possible find it
HERE

If you get these scripts working you can tilt, pan and zoom the camera, plus be able to freeze the pc

 

Nope, that posts only explain camera movement, and im not trying to do anything that advanced. The only thing i want to do is making an invisible NPC initiate dialogue and make the character unable to move during the dialogue.

 

Okay what you need to know is that all the nwn scripting commands can be found at nwn lexicon

the commands you should search for are:

speakstringbasic function to make something speak)
SetCommandable: Decides if a pc can move or not

also take a look HERE, and HERE

[ December 17, 2002, 20:23: Message edited by: Thorin ]

 

What im doing is putting an OnClientEnter script that first dissables the players ability to move and then initiates dialogue, this didnt work so now i use these scripts:

OnClient enter(module properties):

void main()
{
object oPC = GetFirstPC();
DelayCommand(0.1,SetCommandable(FALSE,oPC));
}

And the OnSpawnScript for the dude thats going to speak:

void main()
{
object oPC = GetFirstPC();
object oIntro = GetObjectByTag("Introman");
AssignCommand(oIntro,ActionMoveToObject(oPC,TRUE));
DelayCommand(1.0,AssignCommand(oIntro, ActionStartConversation(oPC, "introtalk", TRUE)));
}

What this currently does is preventing the player from move like it should, but the dialouge does not start. Has anyone got any ideas as to why it wouldnt?

 

You could always place a trigger on the ground, where the PC spawns. Then on the on-enter script place the npc dialouge script. If you do this remember to use the destoryobject command(i think that is what it is called) or everytime somebody runs over the trigger the script will fire.

One other possibility is to place the command under the on perception of the npc. You will have to adjust the script though, so that it only fires once by setting the whole command into an
if statement

Example code
int i_Intro_Talk = 0;
if (i_Intro_Talk == 0){
place the script here
}
i_Intro_Talk = 1;

Some comments on the code above, first it was written of the top of my head, so it will most likely not compile, you will have to figure out the proper nwn syntax for it. Also because the variable is stored locally this if statement will only hold true until the person reloads the game, or exits and re-enters the area.

So I recommed you use a trigger, as with the destoryobject command you can make sure that it only runs once.