Start quest when another quest starts?

[fireundubh]

How do you start a quest when another quest starts?

 

For example, I want to add an item to the player when the player leaves Vault 111 and starts the game proper—and only then.

 

In Skyrim, I'd want to add an item to the player when the player leaves the cave at Helgen for the first time.

 

Currently, I have a quest that adds an item to the player immediately without any quest awareness.

[zilav]

Maybe create a quest in story manager for changed location event outside of vault? But I'm noob regarding quests

[Kesta]

Cheap way to do it without editing the quest itself :

 

 - Add a spell to the player at the beginning (via OnInit on a playeralias for instance), spell with a scripted magic effect.

 - In the conditions for this magic effect (in the spell form, not the magic effect form), you set a GetStage or GetQuestRunning condition.

 - In the magic effect's script, into the OnMagicEffectStart event, you do whatever you want to do, so it can be aQuestProperty.Start()

 

 

With a bit of maintenance inside the OnPlayerLoadGame event, you can remove the spell once it have been added once (and thus the magic effect applied and your script processed / quest started), for a super-very-minor performance improvement.

[fireundubh]

This was my solution:

ScriptName dubhAutoLootQuestScript Extends Quest

Quest Property MQ102 Auto
Form Property dubhAutoLootHolotape Auto

Event OnQuestInit()
	While MQ102.IsStageDone(6) == False
		; waiting until the Pip-Boy sequence finishes
	EndWhile
	Self.Stop()
EndEvent

Event OnQuestShutdown()
	Game.GetPlayer().AddItem(dubhAutoLootHolotape, 1, False)
EndEvent

Basically, that while loop will do nothing and iterate until MQ102's quest stage 6 is done. When that happens, the quest stops and an item is added to the player then.

 

Note: CompleteQuest() does not Stop() the quest.