Device unlock for dominant follower - dialogue

[Jappa123]

Hello everyone,

 

I'm trying to set up dialogue for dominant follower, what I want to achieve is:

 

Once device is locked on player, unlock dialogue wont be available for let's say next 5 hours, ater 5 hours follower will be able to unlock locked device. 

 

Could you give me some advice, how to get it working? Thanks!

[Taki17]

If you just want the unlock dialogue to have a 5h cooldown when clicked, put 5 in the "Hours until reset" field of the appropriate topic info in the quest that handles this follower's dialogue.

 

If what you want is that the follower locks the player in a restraint in dialogue, then makes the unlock dialogue option unavailable for the next 5 hours, that'll take a bit more work:

 

In the script for the follower's dialogue quest, you need to create the following:

• a conditional variable that stores if the unlock dialogue is currently on cooldown or not (let's call it UnlockOnCooldown)
• a variable that stores the exact time the player was locked in the restraint (let's call it PlayerLockedTime)
• a function that is called from the script fragment attached to the dialogue that equips the player with restraints (let's call it LockPlayerAndSetCooldown)
• an OnUpdate event handler that periodically checks if the cooldown has expired

So the mechanics would look something like this:

• For the unlock dialogue option to work, add the condition that UnlockOnCooldown needs to be false
• The follower locks the player in restraints. In the script attached to this dialoge, we call LockPlayerAndSetCooldown
• In LockPlayerAndSetCooldown, get the current game time and store it in PlayerLockedTime and also set UnlockOnCooldown to true and register this script for an update event
• In the OnUpdate event handler, check if subtracting the value of PlayerLockedTime, from the value of the GameDaysPassed global, converted to hours results in a value equal to or larger than 5. ( GameDaysPassed.GetValue() - PlayerLockedTime ) * 24.0 > 5.0 )
• If so, the cooldown is over, set UnlockOnCooldown to false and do not register for another update - the unlock dialogue option will be available again. If not, register for another update to check this again

Edited March 7, 2023 by Taki17

[Jappa123]

Thank you, I will try to get it working as soon i have some free time. 

[CaptainJ03]

Are you aware of this mod?

 

[Jappa123]

2 minutes ago, CaptainJ03 said:

Are you aware of this mod?

 

Yes, might be good mod to look up for some help in scripting and stuff, will check it out.

[MTB]

Simplification suggestions for Taki17th's solution:
When starting the timer simply compute the expire time eg  CanReleaseAfter = GameDaysPassed.GetValue() + duration_in_days  and put it somewhere a condition can get at it such as a conditional quest variable or a global.
Then on the release conversation info put a condition:
 GetVMQuestVariable MyQuest CanReleaseAfter < GameDaysPassed (check use global)
or
 GetGlobalValue CanReleaseAfter < GameDaysPassed (check use global)

 

(initialize CanReleaseAfter to a large value or add an AND CanReleaseAfter > 0 so conversation is not available before setting timer.)