Question about quest path and items

jbolduc9

I'm working on a new quest and wanted an NPC to hand the character a letter and they need to read it to continue the quest, but I can't seem to get this to work. Am I missing something?

yospeck

1. Create the Letter item in your Items
2. Set the Dialogue option in your Story
3. In this dialogue option select the placed NPC you want the player to talk to and select the dialogue point they need to reach in the conversation
4. Have the "Drop Item" set with the dialogue option and select the letter.

jbolduc9

Ok, I have that part done.
What I wanted to do was have the character "read" the letter as part of a dialog in order to advance the quest.

for example:
NPC gives letter to player and the player "reads" it opening a dialog window with the letters contents. Then they can transition to the next map

zogvarnoka

Have the npc "place" the letter on a table or barrel for the player to read instead of putting it in the player's inventory. This will allow you to use the "dialogue/interact with object" quest objective with the letter as the object to be talked to/interacted with. Items in a player's inventory cannot be used as an interactable themselves for a quest objective.

Use the item "appear when" linked to the completed dialogue with the npc to make the letter appear for the player to read.

jbolduc9

zogvarnoka wrote: »

Have the npc "place" the letter on a table or barrel for the player to read instead of putting it in the player's inventory. This will allow you to use the "dialogue/interact with object" quest objective with the letter as the object to be talked to/interacted with. Items in a player's inventory cannot be used as an interactable themselves for a quest objective.

Use the item "appear when" linked to the completed dialogue with the npc to make the letter appear for the player to read.

Great Thanks that was what I looking for. I assume I'll need a custom NPC and not one that you can use upon creation with the "Dialog" option

kalbar

Hey,

I've got another question regarding items and quest path...

In my case I would like to allow an object interaction to act as map transition: player interact with object then next map loads.
Is it possible? I've set the object as described above, but when testing the map, I cannot interact with the object. And when looking at the objects options, I cannot set it as Interactable anymore...

Any clue how to make this work?

Cheers

nokturnel

kalbar wrote: »

Hey,

I've got another question regarding items and quest path...

In my case I would like to allow an object interaction to act as map transition: player interact with object then next map loads.
Is it possible? I've set the object as described above, but when testing the map, I cannot interact with the object. And when looking at the objects options, I cannot set it as Interactable anymore...

Any clue how to make this work?

Cheers

In the story tab, in between the 2 maps you're trying to transition to and from select "leave from" on the map you're leaving, and then select the detail you want the player to interact with.

angrysprite

kalbar wrote: »

Hey,

I've got another question regarding items and quest path...

In my case I would like to allow an object interaction to act as map transition: player interact with object then next map loads.
Is it possible? I've set the object as described above, but when testing the map, I cannot interact with the object. And when looking at the objects options, I cannot set it as Interactable anymore...

Any clue how to make this work?

Cheers

This is how to do it: set the MAP TRANSITION object to the object you want to use, set the final quest goal to the object BEFORE the object you want to be the map transition.

Example:

Player must speak with NPC
Player must read read letter NPC gives them
Player moves to next map

I don't know how you have your story set-up, but here is the mechanics to setting this up:

The LAST GOAL in your storyboard for this map is to speak with the NPC. Since reading the letter is required, I would set it up like this:

NPC dialog = NPC speaking to player. ONE RESPONSE in that same dialog tree is to "Read the letter". All dialog trees will FAIL (this keeps the NPC interactable) - in the tree portion under "Read the letter" will be the letter portion of the dialog. Surround ALL that text in "OOC" text labels to cause it to be italicized, makes it easy to remember you are reading a letter.

Only the letter tree will give a success in that dialog.

Since the NPC is the final goal in the storyboard, a successful completion of the dialog will now highlight the map transfer object. Play "F"s the transfer object and is transferred to next map.

To set the transfer object go to TAB 1 and click the TRANSFER box between the two maps and select the object to use.

I hope this helps.

kalbar

angrysprite wrote: »

This is how to do it: set the MAP TRANSITION object to the object you want to use, set the final quest goal to the object BEFORE the object you want to be the map transition.

Example:

Player must speak with NPC
Player must read read letter NPC gives them
Player moves to next map

I don't know how you have your story set-up, but here is the mechanics to setting this up:

The LAST GOAL in your storyboard for this map is to speak with the NPC. Since reading the letter is required, I would set it up like this:

NPC dialog = NPC speaking to player. ONE RESPONSE in that same dialog tree is to "Read the letter". All dialog trees will FAIL (this keeps the NPC interactable) - in the tree portion under "Read the letter" will be the letter portion of the dialog. Surround ALL that text in "OOC" text labels to cause it to be italicized, makes it easy to remember you are reading a letter.

Only the letter tree will give a success in that dialog.

Since the NPC is the final goal in the storyboard, a successful completion of the dialog will now highlight the map transfer object. Play "F"s the transfer object and is transferred to next map.

To set the transfer object go to TAB 1 and click the TRANSFER box between the two maps and select the object to use.

I hope this helps.

Thanks for the insight, I will try using a NPC as you pointed out. Anyway, it seems that an 'object interaction' alone cannot work as map transition... which is too bad... Maybe future foundry update will fix that...