CSC notes, observations, wish list items
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2023 1:43 am
Hey, all. I post regularly on Discord but I think that these forums are probably a better place to permanently document things. After going through my notes, I've got a list of story and CSC-related thoughts/misfeatures/requests.
- SendEvent: Amy seems to lack a Peeing animation. She's the only character that SendEvent : StartPeeing doesn't work with.
- Items: The Master Bathroom Toilet is not an interactive item. Would be nice to be able to use it. There's also a laundry hamper in the bathroom that can't be interacted with.
- Items: Any chance of getting an open version of the Upstairs Bathroom Toilet, or an item function to open and close the toilets?
- Zones: Any chance of getting the Master Bathroom, Downstairs Bathroom, and Master Bedroom Closet as distinct Zones?
- Dialogues: After the recent change to Dialogue Response ordering in CSC 1.0.9, the "Order" field is no longer visible. However, it's still saved in the underlying data. New Responses are added with Order=0, causing the story to display them before 'legacy' Responses with a higher Order value. Possible fix: force Order=0 on story import.
- Dialogues: Add up/down arrows to reorder Alternate Texts. Please! This would allow the Order field to be removed.
- Dialogues: Allow copy/pasting of Alternate Texts.
- Dialogues: Allow copy/pasting of Responses.
- Background Chatter: Allow reordering and copy/pasting of BGC objects. If this messes with the audio clip ID, allow that value to be edited.
- General list behavior: click and drag to reorder sortable things in lists. It would save a lot of time over clicking the up arrows.
- Socializing: A configurable setting to control the frequency of socializing (BGC, emotes, etc.)?
- Roaming: A configurable setting to control the frequency of roaming (min/max values)?
- Personality Traits: Can these be made available as mapped Values, like almost everything else? Lots of people have asked for this and apparently it's really hard, but I'd like it to stay on the radar.
- Commands: Is there any reason why the bodypart console command isn't available as an Event in CSC?
- Commands: Can we have a version of WarpTo that accepts XYZ coordinates, like in the console?
- Comments in event and criteria lists? Maybe?
- Character Groups: Allow the CharacterFromCharacterGroup dynamic variable in event chains to be provided by Character Event Triggers, Character Item Interactions, and Scripted Dialogues. (Dare I ask for BGC?).
- For Event Triggers that are caused by a character's action, dynamically store the triggering character so it can be referenced within the Event. Maybe associate this with Character Groups as well, so you can say something like: Female Characters : Enters Vision and then CharacterFromCharacterGroup : Event Triggers : Female Characters : Some Event.
- Far out request: Character Groups as distinct story containers with their own sets of Dialogues, Event Triggers, Item Interactions, BGC, etc.