redleaf on 27/2/2018 at 12:30
Hiya
I'm looking for someone to make a book. A book locked by magic. The tricky thing about this book is it needs to have places where various stones will be inset. Each time a stone is set into the cover, some kind of magical razzamatazz will happen. Then of course you will see the model with that particular stone inserted. So actually I probably need a number of books, one for every time a stone is inset?
When the final stone is set in, of course then the book will open.
Is this even do-able? Hoping for some help, advice, random thoughts from the community. Thank you!
Zontik on 27/2/2018 at 13:55
How many stones?
If you have only 3 stones and no hard order to place them in, you need 8 (!) models:
no_stone
stone1
stone2
stone3
stone12
stone13
stone23
stone123
If four... the column will be too high.
The hard order, on the other hand, will limit player too much.
I think you need a sort of compromiss. Say, a book which can't be moved, with nests for stones. When you insert the final stone, you can change the model and its properties.
R Soul on 27/2/2018 at 19:04
You don't need different book models. You can use DetailAttachement links to stick an invisible copy of each gem onto the book (there's a sub-object option in the link data so the gems will rotate with the book's cover as it opens). Using a real gem on the book can cause it to make the "book gem" visible and then delete the one the player's holding.
The direction of the DA link has to be from each gem to the book, and those gems must be non-physical.
As well as making each gem visible, the book can increment a quest var, and when all gems are in place a QuestVarTrigger can make the book open, and from then on behave like a book normally does.
redleaf on 28/2/2018 at 05:58
Zontik:
The campaign is linear, so the 5 stones only have one order in which to be set. Therefore it would be:
no stone
stone 1
stones 1 and 2
stones 1, 2 and 3
stones 1, 2, 3 and 4
stones 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
For the stones I am thinking to get someone's permission to retexture stones they have already made.
R Soul:
I understand some of what you said. My experience with this kind of thing is very limited. So I will have to experiment, or maybe my DromEd partner NightShifter will have a better handle on it. Two questions immediately comes to mind:
1. Is there already a model of a book that opens?
2. Can the exact locations of the stones be assigned through DA?
Thank you both for your replies
Yandros on 28/2/2018 at 12:48
1. Probably but I'm not sure of one off hand.
2. Yes, you set the offsets in the link data. R Soul's suggestion is IMO much easier and better than having multiple models.
Zontik on 28/2/2018 at 12:58
There is an openable book in Bad Venture FM. Can't remember the model, probably something like *book*.
redleaf on 3/3/2018 at 03:42
THANK YOU! Now, back to my HAMMER GIRLS campaign - only 20 years in the making now! (Not really, but feels like it) :)
Yandros on 3/3/2018 at 18:31
Wow, that looks amazing Jeanne!
