I'm not asking for a COG handout. I just want to ask a question that will determine whether or not I commit myself to learning basic COG.

Is it possible to write a dialogue system with COG that would act similarly to KotOR's dialogue system? I'm not planning anything totally extensive. I just want to have maybe an NPC in a level that you can talk to, and have the mission objectives alter depending on the path you choose.

Does it sound feasible or is this just wishful thinking?

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Have a good one,
Freelancer

It's probably possible. You'll probably have 10 or so objectives, but the cog only certain ones show up based on what happens in the level. For example, if you killed your commander, the objective "Protect the commander" wouldn't show up; instead, the objective "Your commander is dead; take your anger out on the stormies!" Would appear. Maybe you could use bins or something to keep track of the path of the story.

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Crap, my cog isn't showing up in Jed. It's in project folder/cog ... But I go there to add the cog and nothing shows up in Jed for either my proj. dir or under /cog.

Also, this is my first COG. I was wondering if someone could critique it and see if anything's wrong with it:



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Have a good one,
Freelancer

Make sure its named "blah.cog" and not "blah.cog.txt". Cogpad can help with this....

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

I'm pretty sure I managed to iron that problem out. I think it might have something to do with how I saved or how I set up my directory. Does anyone have any advice about this? It's been a long time since I've edited..

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Have a good one,
Freelancer

Literally anything is possible to a sufficiently talented editor.

Not outside the scope of the functions provided.

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Correct:

C:\Windows\Desktop\JED\Nexus\Nexus.jed
C:\Windows\Desktop\JED\Nexus\cog\blah.cog

Incorrect:

C:\Windows\Desktop\JED\Nexus\Nexus.jed
C:\Windows\Desktop\JED\cog\blah.cog

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what are the limitations exactly? so far i have found nothing i cant do in cog other from moveingsectors/surfaces/vertexs.

i heard you cant have more than a certain number of symbols but i dont know if its true or not.

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Yeah, its somewhere around 200 symbols. You wont really notice anything at first, until you try to create something with that cog. Then youll notice it. Youll notice that you cant create anything. Its wierd, I know, but after youve got more than ~200 symbols, you cant use any of the CreateThing verbs.

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True Emon, but as of yet I haven't seen anything in any game that cog can't somehow halfass.

If this NPC thing is where you go and talk to someone and then talk to someone else and people can change what they say etc. I was thinking of doing this once. The way I was going to do it was to for example: Have a person you talk to him and he tells you to talk to someone else. Then in that same talking cog a person gets teleported to a location with a talking cog already attached to him. Then you find him you talk and he tels you to go back and talk to the other guy. Then at that moment the otherguy gets destroyed and a new identical guy appears in his place with a different talk cog.

I know this is a noob way to do it but I dont have the cog knowledge to do it anyother way.

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Colored lighting.

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Well, I can't think of anyway you could choose different things to say to a certain person (like this), but I know you can cog a "Choose your own Adventure" thing into your level.

It would be something like "Go do this job for me and then talk to Mr. So-and-so," and depending on how you do the job determines what Mr. So-and-so says to you and what you say to him.

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Um, physics, decent AI, decent collision detection...I suppose you could more like "one eight *** it", but that's not really fair.

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RBots and Hideki's Sniper Arena satisfy the latter two, just to note.

Colored lighting... hm... I know there's a way to halfass *that*. There's got to be. Emon, what kind of physics can't be halfassed with cog?

...And what do you mean, 'decent collision detection?' Explain.

[This message has been edited by Checksum (edited February 07, 2004).]

You show me how to do colored lighting in JK, and Ill bow down. Hell, stable dynamic lighting is hard enough, you want to add color to it?? This isnt Indy3d you know!

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

Colored dynamic lights? I can't halfass that one. So Emon, what did you mean by 'decent collision detection?'

I wish I could do lighting .

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And part of the Nightfire mod team