Campaign Scripts & Triggers for Events

**MasterOfNone** · April 08, 2009, 07:30 AM

If you kill a character in a campaign script (a script that runs before not after the campaign begins, or until such time as control is passed to the player) it will cause the event message 'faction destroyed' (if he's the last remaining family member) to come up in the first turn.

Events in the campaign events file trigger only after the first turn I believe.

What other commands, other than kill character, could be put in a campaign script to cause an event scroll to trigger in the first turn?

**HouseOfHam** · April 08, 2009, 11:22 AM

If the mod is based on v1.2, console_command test_message <message_type>

Unfortunately, this method no longer works in the newer versions.

If you're only concerned about the 'faction destroyed' message, you can get rid of it by adding:

wait 1
console_command clear_messages

Or, you could try the dominant religion method I mentioned in the other thread.

ps: Strictly speaking, campaign script runs after the campaign begins, too.

**MasterOfNone** · April 08, 2009, 11:35 AM

Thanks HoH,

I want to display a message to players when they first begin. I cannot use the faction destroyed method this time (as in ToL) so I was wondering what else might work.

p.s. I have edited the first post

**Salvor Hardin** · April 08, 2009, 01:40 PM

If you have a faction internally named huns and they are set as a horde at game start, the message huns_hording (A Storm from the East!) will also appear at game start, I think.