Shaping your story - Video tutorial series

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Shaping your story - Video tutorial series

In this series you will learn the basics of how to create your story, quests, dialogue and triggered/scripted events. I will build a quest from scratch and show you how it is done.
My tutorial requires some understanding of Redkit, so you should first watch the video tutorials of Klabautermann (http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/159-Creating-Worlds-Video-tutorial-series). He explains the basics of Redkit and how to create your world. In this tutorial, we learn how to bring this world to life.


Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knqO4l4zBlI

- Spawning
- Communities
- Partitions
- Actionpoints


This tutorial may be a little bit fast in the beginning, so I advise you to use the pause button from time to time.

Be sure to have only one Quest Entity, one QuestComponent and one Quest file. If you have multiple ones it doesn't work anymore. So every main- and sidequest needs to be started with these three files.

Ps: At 7.05 when you open your new partition, you can also rightclick on "Root" and "Add Partition". This way you can have multiple partitions for houses, caves, etc. If you don't do this and only want one partition, you will only find "Root" when you click on "World" later on. Only one partition also works, but since you have to load everything all the time, it might be bad for performance. It is best suited for small and more simple levels.



Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKA3OLmoHxU

- Creating a dialogue file
- Voicetags
- Writing dialogue
- Choices
- Adding it to your quest

My video tutorial about advances scene settings (cameras animations, etc.) for dialogues: https://vimeo.com/59246469

7.10: img: INTIMIDATE = It shows a small symbol of a fist for this choice.
7.20: [Hit the cook] = I only use brackets to show that this is no dialogue, but an action. The brackets also show up in the choice.

Ps: Please excuse the writing in the dialogue. I didn't prepare the dialogue as always and suddenly I had to write it while recording and hadn't a lot of time to think about it. ;)



Part 2.5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwhqUT3Typ8&feature=youtu.be

Trying out the dialogue
 
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Thanks a lot! :) I´m really really looking forward for this series... I actually was about to give up :)
 
Toll!
I startet learning how to place NPCs a few days ago. I wished there were a tutorial and it seems my wish was heared. Can't wait watching the videos when I've enough time.
 
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKA3OLmoHxU

- Creating a dialogue file
- Voicetags
- Writing dialogue
- Choices
- Adding it to your quest

My video tutorial about advances scene settings (cameras animations, etc.) for dialogues: https://vimeo.com/59246469

7.10: img: INTIMIDATE = It shows a small symbol of a fist for this choice.
7.20: [Hit the cook] = I only use brackets to show that this is no dialogue, but an action. The brackets also show up in the choice.
 
I've got a little problem. When I paste npc to my npc folder appeares information: "Unable to insert string 0 info into db. Assigning new id.", and next "Unable to update string 0 info into db.". Do you know, what's going on?
 
Got same problem as Tangh, got it when copying 2 npcs to my group, then i cant save dialogue, got a pair of errors for each string:

As first error, only one occurence for this type:
.Unable to insert string 0 info into db. Assigning new id.

Then every string i created get such pair of errors:
1.Unable to update string 0 info into db.
2.Unable to update string 2147483650 info into db

Edit: i get these errors when trying to save, otherwise i can do everything as shown in the video.
 
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Yes, I think I know what the problem is, we had this problem in the Redkit beta, but I thought it was fixed with the new patch:

Go to ...\documents\Witcher 2\config and open user.ini.



Copy the bold parts into your user.ini. Cheat makes you able to fly with pressing F1 when you are playing the game in the editor and the two things for [Localization] should help with your problem.

[Cheat]
Level=2


[Dlc]
abetterui.dzip=1
alchemy_suit.dzip=1
base_scripts.dzip=1
dlc_finishers.dzip=1
magical_suit.dzip=1
merchant.dzip=1
roche_jacket.dzip=1
swordsman_suit.dzip=1

[Engine]
CustomRenderingSettings=1
PerformancePlatform=3

[Gameplay]
HardQte=0
ShowCombatLog=0
ShowTutorial=0

[Input]
KeyboardLayout=QWERTY

[Localization]
UnlockStringId=1
UseLocalDB=1


[Rendering]
AllowAntialias=1
AllowBloom=1
AllowBlur=1
AllowCutsceneDOF=1
AllowDOF=1
AllowDecals=1.0
AllowMotionBlur=1
AllowRain=1
AllowSSAO=1
AllowScatterDOF=1
AllowShafts=1
AllowSharpen=1
AllowVignette=1
AspectRatio=0
AtlasTextureDownscale=0
DanglesLimiter=0
DetailTextureDownscale=0
Fullscreen=1
MaxAtlasTextureSize=4096
MaxCubeShadowCount=1
MaxCubeShadowSize=256
MaxSpotShadowCount=3
MaxSpotShadowSize=512
MaxTextureSize=2048
MeshDistanceScale=1.2
ShadowQuality=3
ShadowedLights=3
TextureDownscale=0
TextureMemoryBudget=400
UberSampling=0
VSync=0

[Sound]
MusicVolume=1
SoundVolume=1

[Viewport]
Height=1080
Width=1920
 
That didn't help me, maybe I should create the whole dialogue again with this updated config and newly copied npcs?

EDIT: not dialogue, everything that was shown in tutorial.
 
Write, if it'll work for you
EDIT: Maybe it's folt of operation system. I've got W8
 
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Nothing changed, got same error when copying, then same error when trying to save dialogue.

Gonna wait for patch or solution.

Any way your videos are wellwritten and paced, hope we will see more.
 
I've got it! On instalation finish uncheck this point saying about strings, and everythink will work :D
 
You mean reinstallation of whole redkit? Damn, hope I can still import my world to reinstalled redkit, with this tutorial dialogue.
 
hi @Benzenzimmern
könntest du bitte ein touturial uber die erschafung von wasser machen brauche das echt.

hoffe das ist nicht zuviel aber du bist ein profi , und das wiki ist weg ....
 
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