NPC-(mod) NPC banters, finally understood how it works :) Options

[jastey]

Hi everyone,
I have somehow troubles to get a working script for banters between my mod-NPC and the ingame NPCs. Before I start scanning through the existing mod-NPCs (in the hope to identify the banter-triggering script), how is your banter script? Could you post it here for me? Is there a tutorial somewhere? (There are some for writing the banters, but how are they called?) Do you have banters that are started by the BioWare NPCs, and how did you script those?
Thanks!

EDIT: I'm asking for BGII, btw.

This post has been edited by jastey: Nov 22 2004, 08:32 AM

[jcompton]

Before I start scanning through the existing mod-NPCs (in the hope to identify the banter-triggering script), how is your banter script? Could you post it here for me? 

Well, no, that's actually what you should be doing first. That, and reading Blue's banter tutorial: http://forums.pocketplane.net/index.php?topic=61.0

Banters are governed by the DLGs listed in INTERDIA.2DA.

There is a mechanism in the game which starts banters every so often. It is not fully understood how often or exactly when it runs, but the upshot is that it calls a DLG from INTERDIA, as though you had issued an Interact() scripting command.

When this "banter timer" fires, or Interact() is called on a DLG, it looks for a valid state trigger in that DLG. Which is why state triggers for banters tend to be of the sort that say "Do I see someone else I want to talk to here? And have we done this banter before?"

Running Infinity Explorer on the Bxxxx series of DLGs, and looking at a mod such as the Banter Pack, should line this up pretty well for you.

This post has been edited by jcompton: Nov 5 2004, 06:38 PM