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Quasar's quest script loader

Sat, 16 November 2013 22:30

Keshire
Messages: 137
Registered: August 2013

Senior Member

I'm not going to upload the script activator assistant, because it's better for people to dig into the files themselves for stuff like this. Smile

The core of this goes into scriptactivation.lua (So if you have DLC you'll need to extract it from there and either add it back in or create a new mod for it)

data/dir.manifest

scripts\mods.txt
scripts\mods\keshire_Mod_Activation.lua
scripts\quests\QV999_Mod.lua

data/scripts/quests/scriptactivation.lua

--LoadFileAsString defaults to data\scripts\miscellaneous
--And that's just silly, so let's bring it up one level
local mods = string.gsub(LoadFileAsString("..\\mods.txt"),"\n","")

--Base folder for this is scripts\mods
for modinfo in mods:gmatch("[^%:]+") do
	if (not modinfo:match("%-%-")) then
		local d=modinfo:match("[^%#]+%#$"):gsub("%#$","")
		local f=assert(loadfile("data\\scripts\\mods\\"..d))
		f()
	end
end

data/scripts/mods.txt (The #: is needed for each file)

keshire_Mod_Activation.lua#:

data/scripts/mods/keshire_Mod_Activation.lua

local f=1;
for i in ipairs(ScriptCode) do
	f=f+1
end
ScriptCode["QV999"]=f

-- QO810 Test
ScriptActivation[ScriptCode.QV999] = {}
ScriptActivation[ScriptCode.QV999].name = "QV999_Mod"
ScriptActivation[ScriptCode.QV999].display_name = "Keshire Testing"
ScriptActivation[ScriptCode.QV999].start_chap = Chapters.Start
ScriptActivation[ScriptCode.QV999].end_chap = Chapters.End
ScriptActivation[ScriptCode.QV999].states = 
{
	"START"
}
ScriptActivation[ScriptCode.QV999].AbleToRun = nil

data/scripts/quests/QV999_Mod.lua (There's a quest template you can use for this)

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[Updated on: Sat, 16 November 2013 22:32]

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Re: Quasar's quest script loader

Fri, 24 October 2014 10:43

Phnx
Messages: 39
Registered: September 2013

Member

I have a couple of questions:

Where in the scriptactivation.lua do I put this. Do I just add it to the end?

--LoadFileAsString defaults to data\scripts\miscellaneous
--And that's just silly, so let's bring it up one level
local mods = string.gsub(LoadFileAsString("..\\mods.txt"),"\n","")

--Base folder for this is scripts\mods
for modinfo in mods:gmatch("[^%:]+") do
	if (not modinfo:match("%-%-")) then
		local d=modinfo:match("[^%#]+%#$"):gsub("%#$","")
		local f=assert(loadfile("data\\scripts\\mods\\"..d))
		f()
	end
end

Do I need to add anything to this or is it functional like this?

keshire_Mod_Activation.lua#:

I'm guessing keshire_Mod_Activation.lua makes the game recognize the quest.

And QV999_Mod.lua is the actual quest where I can determine what happens.

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Re: Quasar's quest script loader

Wed, 29 October 2014 09:09

Keshire
Messages: 137
Registered: August 2013

Senior Member

Phnx wrote on Fri, 24 October 2014 10:43

I have a couple of questions:

Where in the scriptactivation.lua do I put this. Do I just add it to the end?
--LoadFileAsString defaults to data\scripts\miscellaneous
--And that's just silly, so let's bring it up one level
local mods = string.gsub(LoadFileAsString("..\\mods.txt"),"\n","")

--Base folder for this is scripts\mods
for modinfo in mods:gmatch("[^%:]+") do
	if (not modinfo:match("%-%-")) then
		local d=modinfo:match("[^%#]+%#$"):gsub("%#$","")
		local f=assert(loadfile("data\\scripts\\mods\\"..d))
		f()
	end
end
Do I need to add anything to this or is it functional like this?
keshire_Mod_Activation.lua#:
I'm guessing keshire_Mod_Activation.lua makes the game recognize the quest.

And QV999_Mod.lua is the actual quest where I can determine what happens.

Yes, yes, and yes.

This is all basically a way to add new stuff without doing any funky stuff with other existing quests.

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Re: Quasar's quest script loader

Wed, 29 October 2014 09:15

Phnx
Messages: 39
Registered: September 2013

Member

OK. Thank you! Smile

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Re: Quasar's quest script loader

Thu, 30 October 2014 00:10

Phnx
Messages: 39
Registered: September 2013

Member

I have run into a bit of an issue. I don't want the game to exec commands every time I load a saved game so I tried deleting QV999_Mod.lua which bugged my game. Then I changed the content to

module(...,package.seeall)

QuestManager.NewQuestQuestThread("QV999_Mod")

function QV999_Mod:Init()

end

function QV999_Mod:State_START_SkipTo()

end

function QV999_Mod:State_START_Main()

end

function QV999_Mod:OnExit()

end

and the game runs fine, except I found out that trying to delete the QV999_Mod.lua wasn't necessary at all because the game no longer execs new commands put into the file. Is this normal? Is there something I can do to make execution of commands work again? What I don't understand is that the game still loads the lua and the code must be correct or the game gets bugged as well. But then why aren't new commands executed?!

[Updated on: Thu, 30 October 2014 00:15]

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Re: Quasar's quest script loader

Thu, 30 October 2014 15:46

Keshire
Messages: 137
Registered: August 2013

Senior Member

Phnx wrote on Thu, 30 October 2014 00:10

I have run into a bit of an issue. I don't want the game to exec commands every time I load a saved game so I tried deleting QV999_Mod.lua which bugged my game. Then I changed the content to
module(...,package.seeall)

QuestManager.NewQuestQuestThread("QV999_Mod")

function QV999_Mod:Init()

end

function QV999_Mod:State_START_SkipTo()

end

function QV999_Mod:State_START_Main()

end

function QV999_Mod:OnExit()

end
and the game runs fine, except I found out that trying to delete the QV999_Mod.lua wasn't necessary at all because the game no longer execs new commands put into the file. Is this normal? Is there something I can do to make execution of commands work again? What I don't understand is that the game still loads the lua and the code must be correct or the game gets bugged as well. But then why aren't new commands executed?!

Without a loop the quest completed. Razz

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Re: Quasar's quest script loader

Fri, 31 October 2014 08:46

Phnx
Messages: 39
Registered: September 2013

Member

Thank you for the clarification. Even calling myself a scripting-noob would be an exaggeration so I'll stick to the scriptactivation method. I don't feel comfortable adding a quest to the game that's only used once when I can't create a loop, too. I managed to make the game run all the scripts from an extracted scripts folder with DLC. So there's no hassle of constantly repacking the dlc files when I want to make changes to scriptactivation.lua. Also, happy Halloween! Smile

[Updated on: Fri, 31 October 2014 10:27]

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