[MOD] Yisha supervising Hiring and Firing

[Litauen]

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Yisha in Hiring and Firing cutscenes

Version history:

1.01 Removed weird plot cutscene with 2 Yishas
1.00 Initial release

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[MegaJohnny]

Actually a very interesting idea. Gives the feeling that Yisha is more involved in the empire, even without changing the mechanics at all.

[NZ-Wanderer]

Oooo I like it, dashes off to steam to subscribe
Thank you for yet another great mod...

[Senner]

Good mod. Lots of small improvements will make the game enjoyable.

[Miniding]

And again an immersive mod by you Litauen!!! will add it anytime soon when I get back!!

Thanks again for this and for the Capship bridhe and the new loacation of the landing pad!!!

Great job!!!

[YorrickVander]

Lol stop giving me good reasons not to test vanilla! (Seriously though, nice idea.)

[Tamina]

Great!!!
A little bit odd though when playing the story. At the beginning of the campaign you can see Yisha entering the skunk on the Badlands Colony while another Yisha clone stands in the background

[LordSneazy]

Is there anyway you can remove Yisha from the animation that is played in the Plot line when you first go to Badlands Colony? Since the animation is of Yisha walking back into the ship, to only have another Yisha looking at herself.

[Litauen]

There is a way. But necessary effort is not worth the gain. I suggest to use mod after the plot and you will avoid this weirdness with 2 Yishas.

[YorrickVander]

If it's important to you it's not too hard to accomplish. In Plot_ep1_ch1.xml the code to handle that scene is :

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                <cue name="P1_Tutorial_Docked_Actor_Conv_End">
                  <conditions>
                    <event_conversation_finished actor="$BadlandsEngineer" outcome="P1_Tutorial_Docked_Actor_Conv"/>
                  </conditions>
                  <actions>

                    <!-- Yisha entering playership cutscene -->
                    <play_cutscene key="'EnterPlayerShip'">
                      <param name="npcref" object="$Yisha" />
                    </play_cutscene>

                    <add_copilot actor="$Yisha"/>
                    <set_value name="$BadLands_Delivery_Done" exact="false"/>
                    <set_value name="$PlayerUndocked" exact="false"/>
                  </actions>
                  <cues>
                    <cue name="P1_Signal_Badlands_Crate_Cues">
                      <conditions>
                        <event_cutscene_stopped key="'EnterPlayerShip'"/>
                      </conditions>
                      <actions>
                        <signal_cue cue="P1_Badlands_Restock"/>
                        <signal_cue cue="P1_Find_Crate"/>
                      </actions>
                    </cue>

With a subtle rearrange and commenting out like so (untested)

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                <cue name="P1_Tutorial_Docked_Actor_Conv_End">
                  <conditions>
                    <event_conversation_finished actor="$BadlandsEngineer" outcome="P1_Tutorial_Docked_Actor_Conv"/>
                  </conditions>
                  <actions>

                    <!-- Yisha entering playership cutscene
                    <play_cutscene key="'EnterPlayerShip'">
                      <param name="npcref" object="$Yisha" />
                    </play_cutscene> -->

                    <add_copilot actor="$Yisha"/>
                    <set_value name="$BadLands_Delivery_Done" exact="false"/>
                    <set_value name="$PlayerUndocked" exact="false"/>

                    <signal_cue cue="P1_Badlands_Restock"/>
                    <signal_cue cue="P1_Find_Crate"/>
                  </actions>
                  <cues>
                    <!--<cue name="P1_Signal_Badlands_Crate_Cues">
                      <conditions>
                        <event_cutscene_stopped key="'EnterPlayerShip'"/>
                      </conditions>
                      <actions>
                        <signal_cue cue="P1_Badlands_Restock"/>
                        <signal_cue cue="P1_Find_Crate"/>
                      </actions>
                    </cue>-->

will remove the cutscene but possibly leave Yisha just vanishing. On the whole it's not a big thing either way

[Litauen]

@YorrickVander - nice suggestion, just to remove the weird scene!

[Litauen]

Ok, spent 2 hours trying to remove this part. No luck.

I tried full path, also:

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<remove sel="//play_cutscene[@key='EnterPlayerShip']"/>
<remove sel="//play_cutscene[@key=''EnterPlayerShip'']"/>
<remove sel="//play_cutscene[@key='\'EnterPlayerShip\'']"/>
<remove sel="//play_cutscene[@key='&apos;EnterPlayerShip&apos;']"/>
<remove sel="//play_cutscene[@key='&apos;'EnterPlayerShip&apos;'']"/>

and many other things, don't remember right now. Nothing works. I always get:

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[=ERROR=] Cannot match path '//play_cutscene[@key='EnterPlayerShip']' in patch file 'extensions\Litauen_Yisha_in_HiringFiring\md\plot_ep1_ch1.xml'. Skipping node.

Please advice.

[bm01]

Try with the full path?

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//cues/cue/cue[@name='Part_1']/cues/cue[@name='P1_Tutorial_Docked']/cues/cue[@name='P1_Tutorial_Docked_Actor_Conv_End']/actions/play_cutscene

Or simply replace the whole file and copy past everything except what you want to remove. Could break the plot if it gets updated by ES though.

[Clownmug]

I ran into a similar problem once with the whole single quotes inside of double quotes thing. If I recall the way around it is to do the reverse and have the single quotes on the outside with the double quotes on the inside.

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<remove sel="//play_cutscene[@key='"EnterPlayerShip"']"/>

[UniTrader]

alternatively use the Node inside as criterium and then go one node up from there:
<remove sel='//play_cutscene/param[@name="npcref" and @object="$Yisha"]/..' />

or even better use the sub-node as criterium (you always learn something new - found this when i looked up how to use multiple Attributes )
<remove sel='//play_cutscene[param[@name="npcref" and @object="$Yisha"]]' />

maybe you need to specify more nodes because thats not the only cutscen with Yisha in this file, like:
<remove sel='//cue[@name="P1_Tutorial_Docked_Actor_Conv_End"]/actions/play_cutscene[param[@name="npcref" and @object="$Yisha"]]' />

which can be simplified to:
<remove sel='//cue[@name="P1_Tutorial_Docked_Actor_Conv_End"]/actions/play_cutscene' />

[LordSneazy]

Where did you see that error??? Are you able to load debugging console? How do you do that?

[UniTrader]

attach
-logfile debuglog.txt
to the Startup Parameters of XR and you will find this file next to your Savegame Folder

alternatively you can use the InGame-Log by assigning a Hotkey to it

[Litauen]

Thank you for the advices!

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<remove sel="//cues/cue/cue[@name='Part_1']/cues/cue[@name='P1_Tutorial_Docked']/cues/cue[@name='P1_Tutorial_Docked_Actor_Conv_End']/actions/play_cutscene"/>

gives:

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[=ERROR=] Cannot match path '//cues/cue/cue[@name='Part_1']/cues/cue[@name='P1_Tutorial_Docked']/cues/cue[@name='P1_Tutorial_Docked_Actor_Conv_End']/actions/play_cutscene' in patch file 'extensions\Litauen_Yisha_in_HiringFiring\md\plot_ep1_ch1.xml'. Skipping node

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<remove sel="//play_cutscene[@key='"EnterPlayerShip"']"/>

gives:

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[=ERROR=] LIBXML2: file:///extensions%2FLitauen_Yisha_in_HiringFiring%2Fmd%2Fplot_ep1_ch1.xml?ext=pck%20xml line 6, error 65: attributes construct error
[=ERROR=] LIBXML2: file:///extensions%2FLitauen_Yisha_in_HiringFiring%2Fmd%2Fplot_ep1_ch1.xml?ext=pck%20xml line 6, error 73: Couldn't find end of Start Tag remove line 6
[=ERROR=] Error loading from XML merge/patch file 'md\plot_ep1_ch1.xml'. Check the log for further information. Skipping file.

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<remove sel='//cue[@name="P1_Tutorial_Docked_Actor_Conv_End"]/actions/play_cutscene' />

This one worked! Changing the quotes also works:

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<remove sel="//cue[@name='P1_Tutorial_Docked_Actor_Conv_End']/actions/play_cutscene" />

Now Yisha just instantly disappears from the scene (this can make people unhappy also).

[Litauen]

Version update: v1.01 Removed weird plot cutscene with 2 Yishas

[Clownmug]

Good to hear you found a solution, sorry I didn't help much, but I found a different way around the quotes issue in case someone else needs it for reference.

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<remove sel="//play_cutscene[@key="&apos;EnterPlayerShip&apos;"]"/>