A tale of two doors.....

[sassman]

I have a question for the master scripters out there...

I have two doors in existance in a mod. One is in an interior cell going out; the other is an exterior door going inside. The problem is, the exterior location is not fixed; it will be determined by the player. Therefore, I have to alter the X, Y, and Z coordinates of the exit point for the interior door. Now, this position is guaranteed to be an exterior cell, or else a specific, literally-named cell such as the two large "exterior" cellss in Mournhold, so only the X/Y/X coordinates are variable. Fortunately, the outside door, while it's position is not fixed, has a fixed arrival point into the interior cell.

So...I need a script to take the three values, and assign them to the interior door's exit coordinate values.

Anyone know if this can be done without MWSE/MWE, and if it can be done faster/better/easier in MWSE, etc?

Thanks!

-- the SASS Man

[Fliggerty]

Yes, that can be done but only in exterior cells.  It will not work in Mournhold.  But if you use MWSE, you can do it in any cell at all using xPositionCell.

You have to use the SetPos function.  When the player activates the door going inside, save the location:

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set xpos to player->GetPos x
set ypos to player->GetPos y
set zpos to player->GetPos z

Then when the player is going out, just use the opposite:

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player->SetPos x xpos
...etc

[sassman]

Thank you, Fligg...yes, and I believe thay CAN work in Mournhold, as long as I know which cell I'm arriving from (The temple courtyard or the Plaza), and then just explicitly set the return to that cell, like I did with the Ranger Tent Advanced Scripts.

That won't take companions, though; what I'd really like to know is, if the destination coordinates for a standard (not scripted) door can be alterred in-game?  Since the location is fixed PERMANENTLY once the user decides on a location, it would be extremely valuble to be able to be able to set it once and forget it--maybe even get rid of the calling script...(or, whatever it's on, anyways.)

If I can't re-define a normal door, I suppose I could re-use the RTA Script, but that seems a bit clunky for a doorway that never moves again.

I suppose it would be helpful to tell you that I'm working with "Grow Telvanni Towers," and I'm bascally trying to find a way to make it work much more like a standard "companion-friendly" house mod.  It gets awfully lonely in those 'shrooms without even a slave, a revenant, or a Dweomer Cyborg to keep me company....

-- the SASS Man

[Nicholiathan]

Another approach would be to place multiple copies of your door. Activators (buttons) for each door could then be scripted to move the door up 500 units on the z axis once when that door is not active and when activated move the door down 500 units. One of these activators would by default be set to active and the others would default to inactive.

[sassman]

Well, that would be good, if the interior "location" were a finite set of fixed points, all I'd have to do is create one for each possible landing site.  That's the approach that Dongle probably used with his Private Mobil Base mod.

Unfortunately, with "Grow Telvanni Towers", the user can put a manor pod literally anywhere on Vvardenfell, Solsteim, Fort Frostmoth or Tamriel Rebuilt; and I am forced to deal with an exit point that I simply can't hardcode into the face of my interior wall.

-- the SASS Man

[peachykeen]

You could try a hybrid approach. Add specific doors that take you to Mournhold and are enabled when needed, and a generic exterior door that can take you anywhere outside. That would leave you with only unique doors for the interiors you need to support, which wouldn't be more than a half-dozen, I should think. MWSE is obviously more flexible, but without it, I think this would work best.

Or, you could limit the growing of Telvanni towers to outside of city limits, which would neatly bar Mournhold. I doubt they'd appreciate it much anyways.

[sassman]

What I've used is a Global var called "SASS_modname_cell" which stores a value of 0, 1, or 2, for "Real" exterior, "Mournhold, Plaza Brindizi Dorum" or "Mournhold, Temple Courtyard".  In my script, I pull out the stored X, Y, and Z values, which are ALSO globals, and then if I'm in Mournhold, I just send the player to the stored coordinates in the specific Mournhold cell; or, if not, I send the player to a safe spot--I prefer the roof of Caias Cosades's house in Balmora--and I have a static activator there that sends the player to the coordinates I've stored away.

This is what I've had to do when I'm not using MCSE...obviously, there is more flexibility when using MCSE, but since I've had computers that refuse to run Morrowind when MCSE is loaded, I prefer to have a non-MCSE option available, of course.

-- the SASS Man