Making placeables say stuff randomly overhead?

Ugly_Duck

I'm trying to make placeables speak overhead text. I can't figure out how to do this even with LS's script generator. Any help would be great.

Proleric

SpeakString("hello world");

If the placeable is not running the script

AssignCommand(oPlaceable, SpeakString("hello world"));

Ugly_Duck

Where do I put that script? Also, if I want the placeable to speak like 5 random things every now and then, do I replicate that SpeakString("Text goes Here"); 5 times? Do I need a conversation file too?

NeverwinterWights

Ugly_Duck wrote: »

Where do I put that script? Also, if I want the placeable to speak like 5 random things every now and then, do I replicate that SpeakString("Text goes Here"); 5 times? Do I need a conversation file too?

Depends on how you want it to happen. The placeable object's OnHeartbeat might work the best, but the heartbeat is every 6 seconds. The following would make the object speak a random string every heartbeat:

void main()
{
    string sRandom;

    switch (Random(5))
    {
        case 0: sRandom = "Hello World"; break;
        case 1: sRandom = "Hello People"; break;
        case 2: sRandom = "Hello Animals"; break;
        case 3: sRandom = "Hello Trent"; break;
        case 4: sRandom = "Hello NWN"; break;
    }

    SpeakString(sRandom);
}

If you wanted a longer time in between each spoken string then you would do something like so:

void main()
{
    int iBeat = GetLocalInt(OBJECT_SELF, "CURRENT_BEAT");
    string sRandom;

    if (iBeat == 4)//There should be 5 heartbeats (0-4) before the following happens: Can change to however many heartbeats you need.
    {
        switch (Random(5))
        {
            case 0: sRandom = "Hello World"; break;
            case 1: sRandom = "Hello People"; break;
            case 2: sRandom = "Hello Animals"; break;
            case 3: sRandom = "Hello Trent"; break;
            case 4: sRandom = "Hello NWN"; break;
        }

        SpeakString(sRandom);
        SetLocalInt(OBJECT_SELF, "CURRENT_BEAT", 0);//reset hearbeats back to 0
    }

    else//if we haven't made it to 5 hearbeats count up another
    {
        SetLocalInt(OBJECT_SELF, "CURRENT_BEAT", iBeat+1);
    }
}

The second script fires after however many heartbeats. In this case after 5 heartbeats (5 x 6 seconds = 30 seconds). You cold also throw in a random amount of heartbeats so it's not exactly every 30 seconds, etc.

Ugly_Duck

So far, the bottom script is working nicely. Thanks for the help!