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Quests with Journal

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Owl_X

Submitted / Updated

05-01-2008 / 05-01-2008

Category

Toolset

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Quests with Journals Tutorial

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Using the journal is enormously easy in NWN2, compared to NWN1. Using the Journal allows you to set up a quest, with steps, each step marked so Player Characters can progress through it, and then not repeat it (at least, until the server resets. For doing so for Persistent Worlds, please see the links at the end of this article.)

Advantages:

� Easier/faster to use once you get it,
� Enormously easier to debug
� More fun for players - they get a perhaps not VERY helpful, but helpful reminder of what they need to do next.
� It automates some things
� It creates no new scripts for each quest

It is much more fun than setting variables for quests via custom-build gc_ and ga_ scripts for each quest, once you wrap your head around it.

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Quests_with_Journals.pdfQuests_with_Journals.pdf Submitted: 05-01-2008 / Last Updated: 05-01-2008	pdf	276.99Kb	1269
A tutorial for setting up Journals for quests

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Comments (7):

Posted by Arvirago at 2010-09-30 03:06:45 Voted 6.50 on 09/30/10

Nice.
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Posted by RyanJ at 2009-02-12 08:53:12 Voted 10.00 on 02/12/09

A few paragraphs and a couple screencaps of the Journal editor in the toolset, and how to create a quest using the journal and conversations suddenly becomes clear.

Posted by Owl_X at 2008-10-27 07:22:14

Thanks!

Posted by Nydhog502 at 2008-09-04 10:03:41 Voted 10.00 on 09/04/08

Im writing my first module right now and this saved me from a two hour "what do i do" fiasco. You sir, get a 10

Posted by Robin of Spiritwood at 2008-08-26 21:19:25 Voted 9.00 on 08/26/08

Essential reading for beginners.

Posted by Ugly_Duck at 2008-06-24 20:42:15 Voted 9.75 on 06/24/08

Even though it was a little short, this showed me exactly what I needed to see for where I was with learning how to use the journal editor.

Thanks for the help!
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Posted by s_harrington at 2008-05-09 19:05:29

Nice work, though there is a piece missing for PW's. In multiplayer, if you join a party, all your journal entries are automaticly synced to the party leaders. This is not an option that can be turned off. I looked into using a database to update the journal entries, but to my dissapointment, there is no On_Player_Join_Party event that is fired to be looked for. So unless you have some predetermined triggers to update the journal (heartbeats, transitions, etc).

Its unfortunate, and really a big dissapointment, but it is just how it is till/if Obsidian lets it get high enough on their priority list.

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