What Tribunal Added

Well, Tribunal added a lot of things, but there's one feature that has a direct bearing on the subject of this tutorial. Most of the other things are scripting commands and functions, and way out of the scope of this document. These also came with Bloodmoon if you didn't have Tribunal, and Bloodmoon added even more stuff.

Remember those check boxes in the Journal window that I told you to ignore? Well, if you have Tribunal or Bloodmoon (or both), we can use those to make life easier on the PC. If you don’t have Tribunal or Bloodmoon, just skip to the next part!

  1. 1. Open the dialogue window by clicking the button on the toolbar.

  2. 2. Find the Journal tab and click it, and select the Journal category we created in the tutorial.

Contents
1. Introduction and Background
2. General Quest-Creation Tips
3. The Sample Quest
3.a. Adding the NPC
3.b. Adding the Book
3.c. The Dialogue Window
3.c.i. Journal Entries
3.c.ii. Greetings
3.c.iii. Topics
3.d. The Script
4. Testing Your Mod
5. Additional Tweaks
6. What Tribunal Added
7. Final Notes
8. Glossary and Links
  1. 3. Now, right click on the first entry in the Info/Response box, and select New. Type in: The Lost Book. This should be in the very top line of the Info/Response box. If it isn’t, move it up using the left arrow key.

  2. 4. Now, this isn’t your typical journal entry. We aren’t going to give this an index, but what you do need to do is go down and put a check in the little box labeled “Quest Name”. This will allow all of these entries to be sorted by the journal and kept under this heading in the game.

  3. 5. Click on the final journal entry (the one with an index of 30), and check the box labeled “Finished”. This will remove the quest from the list of active quests in the journal, so the PC doesn’t have to worry about it anymore.
  5. 6. Just a note about using this feature. If you decide you want to add this to your quest, then anyone who plays your mod will need either Tribunal or Bloodmoon installed. If they don't have one of the expansions, the mod won't be compatible, and it won't work. So think carefully before you add any features that came with the expansions!

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