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[Tchos]

I received a bug report that I can't figure out.  An NPC, who uses GetFirstName() to deliver personalised barks, referred to one of my companions as "Elanee", but her name is not Elanee, and it doesn't say "Elanee" anywhere in her properties, except for her voice set.  Her first name is Thalrissa, and she has no last name.  She has a standard Elf
appearance, standard companion scripts, no variables, and a standard "druid, shaman" starting package.

Modifié par Tchos, 13 août 2013 - 06:36 .

[diophant]

I had some problems with that function, too (or was it GetName()? ). There seems to be an issue if you change the name of an object in the toolset. My scenario was as follows:
I have a bilingual mod, and in some cases, I need to know which language to use. So I placed a beetle mound in a hidden area, renamed it to "English" in the english version and to "German" in the german version. I had a nice function to get out the used language

int getLanguage()
{
  string language = GetFirstName(GetObjectByTag("RB_O004languages"));
       
  if (language == "German")
    return 1;
  else
    return 0;
}

Then, after applying a NWN2 patch (don't remember which one), it stopped working. After some debugging, I realized that GetFirstName returns the original name from the template, not the one that I set. So now I check if (language == "Käferhaufen").

I haven't tested whether something changes when you first create a blueprint, change the name there, and then place the object.

[Lance Botelle]

Hi Tchos,

Delete the "original" name in the string reference section. i.e. Click on the name drop down menu and then click on the "Edit String Ref" button, and then click "clear", followed by "OK".

The function will then recall your name and not the original that is still there in this section.

Lance.

Modifié par Lance Botelle, 13 août 2013 - 06:48 .

[Tchos]

Aha! Diophant, based on what you said, I was about to test it after adding a scripted "SetFirstName()" to the initial conversation, but Lance, what you describe looks like just the thing! I'll check all of my companions for errant string refs now. Thanks!

[Lance Botelle]

Tchos wrote...

Aha! Diophant, based on what you said, I was about to test it after adding a scripted "SetFirstName()" to the initial conversation, but Lance, what you describe looks like just the thing! I'll check all of my companions for errant string refs now. Thanks!

Hi Tchos,

Your problem sounds like the one I had encountered, so I hope it resolves it for you. Funny enough, I still forget to do this occasionally. Only today, I had to do the same thing to an item I had made.

Lance.

[Tchos]

It probably also explains a problem I had earlier with an object I was using to utter a dead NPC's "dying words" via SpeakString() (which the NPC itself couldn't do because it was dead), but the object refused to use the name I had given it, and kept calling itself by its template name. This will probably fix that.

I checked the rest of my companions, and since most of them were based off the first one, 4 out of 6 of them would have been called Elanee if not for this!

Modifié par Tchos, 13 août 2013 - 07:06 .

[Kaldor Silverwand]

From the Broken Functions List:

GetFirstName
Does not return toolset edited FirstName value, will return correct value but only after SetFirstName has been called
Workaround: Assign value as variable, then set in OnSpawn

[Tchos]

That workaround was not necessary after clearing the string ref as Lance suggested. I did not need to use SetFirstName(), as GetFirstName() returned the correct value in my test.

[Tchos]

Because the NPC involved is not in conversation with the player, I have to get the information through script.

Modifié par Tchos, 14 août 2013 - 05:50 .

[Tchos]

No, because she's not the only one that I want the NPC to address, and you might not have Thalrissa in your party, and she might not be the one you're controlling, and you might choose to have a party made completely of your own characters instead of the NPC party members I provided, or a combination thereof. As I wanted, these barking NPCs address the character that you're controlling, whoever it is. Trust me, this is the way I want it. I'm perhaps the opposite in methods, where I freely use scripts to do exactly what I want, even if there's an almost good enough substitute that could be done without scripting.

Modifié par Tchos, 14 août 2013 - 07:17 .

[I_Raps]

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Modifié par I_Raps, 14 août 2013 - 07:48 .

[Dann-J]

It's so much easier when your bark-string NPCs are all rude and abrupt:

"Go away"
"Leave me alone"
"P*ss off"

Or as Xzar would say in Baldur's Gate:

"Stop touching me!"