questing profiles and help with leanring language.

[cgw-1991]

Hello everyone, I have a bit of confusion with what the wiki is telling me. So, I hope some of you wont mind helping me comprehend what im trying to learn. I have several questions that I would like addressed, if possible.

My first question is do you need to specify the location of a quest giver that you pick up or turn in? because as shown in many questing profiles it does not specify an xyz location

IE: <PickUp QuestName="The Rear is Clear" QuestId="28820" GiverName="Sergeant Willem" GiverId="823" />
<TurnIn QuestName="The Rear is Clear" QuestId="28820" TurnInName="Marshal McBride" TurnInId="197" />

as you will notice no xyz location is shown above

so, that being said does that mean that you I don't need to specify the quest givers location?

Question 2, as many of us know this type of code is a quest tag that determines where to go, what to kill, what to loot, or what object needs to be farmed.

IE: </Quest>

<Quest Id="14382" Name="Two By Sea">
<Objective Type="KillMob" MobId="36397" KillCount="1">
<Hotspots>
</Hotspots>
</Objective>
<Objective Type="KillMob" MobId="36399" KillCount="1">
<Hotspots>
<Hotspot X="-2200.901" Y="2592.248" Z="1.723628" />
</Hotspots>
</Objective>
</Quest>

But I was wondering if their is a way to use the honorbuddy bot to generate that xml code much like you would generate my first example, by going to the developers tab--> profiles--> and clicking on the quest followed by copy xml you can retrieve the information for the pick up objective and turn in parts of a quest. Can i do that to generate the quest tag and its xml or do i need to hand right it?


Those are my two major concerns at the moment, if you answer these questions correctly and thoroughly I will reward you with more rep. Thanks in advance for those that help me.

Solved, thanks to chinajade.

 

[chinajade]

My first question is do you need to specify the location of a quest giver that you pick up or turn in?.

No, the X/Y/Z is not required unless the pickup is from an Object, or the built-in Honorbuddy database does not know the location of the Giver. From the <Pickup> Wiki page...

X, Y, Z (required if type is an Object)

these values are only needed if the quest giver is an Object, or Honorbuddy is having trouble locating the Giver from the values contained in its internal database. These are the X-Y-Z coordinates where the toon must be standing in order to interact with the quest giver.

If omitted, the X-Y-Z values will be obtained from an internal Honorbuddy database.

Question #2:

But I was wondering if their is a way to use the honorbuddy bot to generate that xml code much like you would generate my first example, by going to the developers tab--> profiles--> and clicking on the quest followed by copy xml you can retrieve the information for the pick up objective and turn in parts of a quest. Can i do that to generate the quest tag and its xml or do i need to hand right it?

What you are referring to as the "Quest tag" is actually a Quest element in XML parlance, and referred to informally as a "Quest Override" by Profile Writers.

But to answer your question...
Honorbuddy generates as much information as it can for you when you click that button. The rest, you must fill in for yourself.

If you think about it, if Honorbuddy could safely and reliably generate the rest of that information, profile writers would not be needed.


cheers,
chinajade

 

[cgw-1991]

thank you for you help jade, your time was much apreciated. But, with your statement I have one more question. How do i add the xyz for interaction with the quest givers so that i can ensure a safe smooth profile.

 

[chinajade]

How do i add the xyz for interaction with the quest givers so that i can ensure a safe smooth profile.

[wiki]Profile Writing: Locating X-Y-Z Coordinates for Game World Entities[/wiki]​

Welcome to profile writing! Its always exciting to see new faces taking the plunge!

cheers,
chinajade

 

[cgw-1991]

Beautieful, thank you jade your support is very much apreciated.