How to do Event Chains?

[Heavenly Serpent]

So, I'm trying to write a series of connected events that can consistently reference and use a pair of rulers, started by a targeted decision so that the chain, starting with the decision, looks kind of like this:

Decision by A, acting on B, starts Event 1:

Event 1 happens for B, who sends Event 2 to A, and then Event 3 on a 10 day delay.

Event 2 fires for A.

Event 3 fires for A, and selecting any of the three options available will send Event 4 to B.

Event 4 fires for B, killing B, and setting A to B's killer.

However, I'm having difficulty figuring out what all of the ROOT and FROM and FROMFROMs and whatnot should be; right now, Event 3 is sending to B instead of to A, and Event 4 is sent to B instead.

I also can't get the localisation files to do [FROM.GetFirstName] for any of them, so that B's name won't show up in any of A's events, and A's name won't show up in any of B's events, leaving blank spaces instead.

Finally, I can't seem to get Opinion Modifiers to set between both characters so that A has an opinion towards B as a result of the chain, and B has a similar opinion toward A, and that's a separate issue of the incorrect delivery of Event 3.

If anybody has any advice on how I should structure these events so that they send correctly and can reference localization correctly, and especially if you have a really clear and concise explanation of how Scope Operators such as ROOT and FROM work (since my dumb ass clearly doesn't) I would greatly appreciate your help.

 

[Keizer Harm]

ROOT is whatever scope this event you're writing in was triggered for. If you call an event on Heinrich, within that event's script, ROOT would refer to Heinrich.
If you trigger an event on Louis, from Heinrich's code, then in Louis' event (event 2), Heinrich is the FROM (and Louis is the ROOT). So to get back to Heinrich, trigger an event in the FROM scope.

Localisation: use [From.GetFirstName] rather than [FROM.GetFirstName] Yeah, it is finicky like that.

Opinion modifiers are not very intuitive to add. Try this:

opinion = {
  modifier = your_modifier
  who = FROM
  years/months = <whatever time you want>
}
reverse_opinion = {
  modifier = your_modifier
  who = FROM
  years/months = <whatever time you want>
}

The first one sets ROOT's opinion of FROM, and the second one sets FROM's opinion of ROOT.

 

[Heavenly Serpent]

character_event = {
    id = example.0004
    desc = EVTDESCexample.0004
    is_triggered_only = yes
    option = {
        name = EVTOPTAexample.0004
      
        ai_chance = {
        factor = 100
        }
        hidden_tooltip = {
            character_event = { id = example.0006 days = 20 }
        }
        custom_tooltip = {
            text = example_strong_tt
        }
    }
    option = {
        name = EVTOPTBexample.0004
        ai_chance = {
        factor = 100
        }
        custom_tooltip = {
            text = example_sexy_tt
        }
        character_event = { id = example.0007 days = 20 }
    }
    option = {
        custom_tooltip = {
            text = example_brainy_tt
        }
        ai_chance = {
        factor = 100
        }
        name = EVTOPTCexample.0004
        character_event = { id = example.0008 days = 20 }
    }
}

Here's an example of another event that I just cannot seem to get working. It won't fire the other events, which are all built just fine! Any idea what could be causing the problem?

 

[Shirokitsune]

Have you tried removing the extra zeros in the event ids? Like using example.8 instead of example.0008. That's may be causing the issue... Also, remember to have a namespace at the top of your file that matches the id one. So you'd need a namespace = example at the top of your event file.