Modifying Quest Journal

[timbecile]

Hey Tony,

Now that I got Quest Machine working in my game, I wanted to expand the quest journal.

I'm trying to move the quest title out of the journal's Scroll Rect, and I'd like to add a spot where I can put the name of the quest giver on the UI.

looks like the quest journal script is a wrapper, so I'm not sure how to make that happen...

[Tony Li]

Hi,

Don't let the wrapper throw you. It's just a subclass of the real class. Right-click on the real class name and select Go To Definition:

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I strongly recommend making your own subclass. Don't modify UnityUIQuestJournalUI directly. Otherwise you'll lose your modifications when you update Quest Machine. (A new update with some bug fixes is pending release on the Asset Store even as I write this.)

[timbecile]

perfect! Thanks again Tony!

[Tony Li]

Happy to help!

[timbecile]

ok, so I created a complete copy of the UnityUIQuestJournalUI, and added it to the JournalUI instead of the original, but now the journal won't open.

looks like the QuestMachineConfiguration script is looking for IQuestJournalUI (which my new method inherits from), but I can't add the new Journal UI to it. Also, FWIW, I can't add the original script there either now.

[Tony Li]

Hi,

Please see: How To Assign Quest Machine UIs

As long as it's assigned, it should work.

[timbecile]

wow! learn something new every day...

[Tony Li]

Well, this is an obscure one. It's really just a shortcoming of the Unity editor, and a workaround for it.

[timbecile]

one more question....how do I increment a counter through script?

[Tony Li]

Hi,

Get the quest, get its counter, and increment it:

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Quest quest = QuestMachine.GetQuestInstance("peskyRabbits");
QuestCounter counter = quest.GetCounter("numCarrots");
counter.currentValue++;

API References:

• QuestMachine.GetQuestInstance
• Quest.GetCounter