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I'm so sorry, Tony, I seem to be on a bit of a roll. I would have added to an existing ticket, but thought it would be good as a separate one, just in case someone has a similar question in the future.

Either way, my apologies for bombarding you this week!

I had a quick question about how best to "do something at the start of a quest" and "do something at the end of a quest", mainly around the use of Actions within the Quest and Quest Nodes?

It's easier to visualise things like HUD and Journal Text, as there's a flow you can move through to understand how they "build up" over the course of parsing the Quest at a point in time. For actions, I find it less clear in my head!

If I want to execute a single, one time action at the beginning of a Quest, where's the best place to do so? Quest > Start Node > Active? Or Quest > State > Active?

Same question, if I want to execute a single, one time action once a Quest has been completed, where's the best place? Quest > Success Node > True? Quest State > Successfull?

I hope this ramble makes sense to you and you can help me out. Thank you again!

mroshaw wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 11:24 amIf I want to execute a single, one time action at the beginning of a Quest, where's the best place to do so? Quest > Start Node > Active? Or Quest > State > Active?

Same question, if I want to execute a single, one time action once a Quest has been completed, where's the best place? Quest > Success Node > True? Quest State > Successfull?

In both cases, the answer is: either. They effectively run at the same time. When a quest goes active, it runs the Quest > State > Active actions, and then it immediately sets the Start node active and runs the Quest > Start Node > Active actions. So you can add the actions in either place, wherever it feels most logical to you.

Perfect, thank you again. I've now got everything working absolutely brilliantly, with various minimap markers being enabled and disabled as I progress through quests, and as the available and active quests change across my Quest Givers. Awesome!

Great! Happy questing!