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Is it possible for the dialogue functions to break? One of the topics in my plugin isn't working anymore (i.e. won't turn blue so you can click it)

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A couple more possibilities:

1. I have read that if another mod adds a topic that's the same as one your mod adds, then your topic may not show up in blue. If this is the problem, the fix is using AddTopic.

I don't have personal experience with this problem. Emma posted an explanation in the Comprehensive Dialogue thread.

I've quoted her below; here's a link to the thread (which has a lot of useful tips and info about dialogue): http://www.elderscrolls.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=1227862

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Emma said:

If a newer plugin has the same new topics as your plugin, the newer plugin will "overwrite" your plugin, and the topic in your plugin will never be highlighted and never show up ingame.

In order to avoid this, you should always add an AddTopic command when using a new topic for the first time.

I.e. say that you are going to use the topic "together".

Dialog line: "We really should stick together"

Resultbox: AddTopic "together"

Now, your new topic will always show up. If overwritten by another, newer plugin, it will not be highlighted anymore, but it will still show up among the topics.
Your plugin will be playable but less intiutive.

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2. An NPC can only talk about a topic if he meets the conditions for one of the responses to that topic. If he doesn't qualify for any of the responses, he can't talk about it (nothing to say) and it won't be highlighted or listed in his topic list.

Check that topic and its responses to make sure the NPC meets the conditions to use at least one response for that topic. Something may have changed during game play that causes none of the responses to qualify, you may have changed something in the mod that changed the conditions for the response(s), etc..

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Well, as far as the dialogue filters go, it should be working, although I'll probably check it a third time just in case something magically happens. There might be something wrong with what I wrote in the results field, let me know if you see anything:

Player->AddItem, "_ech_note_kidnap" 1
Journal "AM_revenge" 50

The topic is "clear Anton's name," so I doubt it could conflict with another mod.

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For figuring out the problem with the topic not highlighting: make a test copy of your mod, then try the following (work with the test .esp file; don't mess with the original; might be useful to backup the original somewhere).

1. In the test .esp file, create a copy of the response the NPC should have to that topic (right click and choose copy).

2. For that copy, clear all speaker conditions and save the test .esp. Go into the game with the test .esp (instead of the original .esp) and see if the topic shows up highlighted.

3. If it does, then go back and reset the speaker conditions one at a time until you figure out which one is causing the problem.

4. If it still doesn't show up, proofread very very carefully for typos, etc.

Note: don't save the game with the test .esp file loaded.

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For the results box not working, here's what I noticed...

Should be another comma in the first line:

Player->AddItem, "_ech_note_kidnap", 1

Also:

If this was working before, this probably isn't your problem, but just for future reference: using leading underscores ("_ech_note_kidnap") in object IDs, variable names, etc. can have unpredictable results: sometimes it works fine, sometimes it causes errors. I recommend not using them; much safer.


Second line is missing two commas:

Journal, "AM_revenge", 50

Don't know if the missing commas are the problem with the results box not working; I always put them in.

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Second line is missing two commas:

Journal, "AM_revenge", 50

Don't know if the missing commas are the problem with the results box not working; I always put them in.

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I don't think this is a problem; I never use "" or , in such lines and I have never experienced any problems.
But, the _naming of objects is a known source to problems.

(BTW, really good to see you around, DinkumThinkum )

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I don't think this is a problem; I never use "" or , in such lines and I have never experienced any problems.
But, the _naming of objects is a known source to problems.

(BTW, really good to see you around, DinkumThinkum )

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I really don't know if the commas make any difference, but the devs did it that way in the examples I've looked at from the game, and SFD shows them that way. So I always try to put them in, just in case...

I found out about those _leading underscores the hard way. The problem is mentioned in Scripting for Dummies now, but I don't think it's very well known yet.

And it's good to see you around, still modding and still helping out, Emma!

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Can naming the NPC itself with an underscore (in the id) cause a problem?

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However, the results field thing still won't work. I renamed the note without the leading underscore, and tried changing the syntax with the commas, but still no luck. Neither the item nor the journal entry appeared.

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Okay, latest Update:
I tried working around it by creating a new topic for the character, to see if that would work with the results. It didn't! When I tried to add the note with the console, I got an error message.
All the other quests worked fine, and the results field worked well for the rewards with different NPC's.

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If you're getting an error when you try to add the journal entry from the console, most likely either your syntax is wrong or you have a typo in the name of the journal.

Double check (in the editor Dialogue window) that the journal topic "AM_revenge" actually exists and that it's spelled exactly the same in the results box as it is in the list of journal topics.

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To see what I'm talking about:

1. Try this from the console (in the game):

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Journal, "11111 test journal", 10

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That should give you the usual 'Your journal has been updated' message (on the main screen), and you should see a 'This is a test' entry (or similar wording) in your journal.

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Journal, "xyx", 10

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That should give you an error message; in the middle of the error message it should say something about 'dialogue topic xyx not found', or something like that.

Is that the same error message you're seeing? Because that's the error message you get when you try to add a journal entry for a journal topic that doesn't exist.

(11111 test journal" is an actual journal topic in the game (for testing), but there's no such journal as "xyz".)

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Thanks a lot for your help (and you too, Dinkum). It turns out the problem was the underscore- the NPC had an underscore in his ID, and once I got rid of it everything worked out fine.

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Glad you got it working!

Was it a _leading underscore, or an in_the_middle underscore that caused the problem?

Leading underscores have been confirmed as a problem before, but I've never heard of underscores causing problems in the middle of something. The original game has underscores in the middle of large numbers of Object IDs, and many mods use those too; it's just the ones at the beginning of Object IDs that are known to cause problems.

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it was an in the middle type thing

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That's definitely weird, because there are tons of Object ID's, etc. in the game and in mods that use underscores in the middle without problems.

Thanks for the feedback!

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