MSFD Limiting the use of teleport

[no fix] DisableTeleporting

[no fix] EnableTeleporting

Rather self explanatory, these functions turn the ability to use teleporting magic on or off. Nice to keep those magic user types from wimping out of your dungeon . In the original game it's only used when the player encounters Dagoth Ur.

I won't show the whole script as it would be quite a spoiler, but here is the part that uses the function:

short teleportDisabled

if ( teleportDisabled == 0 )

DisableTeleporting

Set teleportDisabled to 1

endif

This is later reset in the EndGame script.

Note: when the original Tribunal is installed this function is effectively broken: One of the start-up scripts in Tribunal overrides all other teleport commands and forces teleporting on except within one specific area in Mournhold (thanks to Slink and Riiak for the info). Here is the culprit:

Begin TribunalMain

;check for teleporting

if ( GetPCCell "Sotha Sil," == 1 )

DisableTeleporting

else

EnableTeleporting

endif

;check levitate

if ( GetPCCell "Sotha Sil," == 1 )

DisableLevitation

elseif ( GetPCCell "Mournhold" == 1 )

DisableLevitation

else

EnableLevitation ; This is why teleporting was always on outside Mournhold

endif

end

With one of the updates this problem was fixed. The latest version of the script looks like this:

Begin TribunalMain

short disablestate

short newstate

;by default, enable teleport and levitate

set newstate to 0

;only need to check cells in interiors

if ( GetInterior )

if ( GetPCCell "Sotha Sil," == 1 )

;disable teleport and levitate here

set newstate to 1

elseif ( GetPCCell "Mournhold" == 1 )

;disable levitate only here

set newstate to 2

endif

;if state should change

if ( disablestate != newstate )

if ( newstate == 1 )

DisableTeleporting

DisableLevitation

elseif ( newstate == 2 )

DisableLevitation

elseif ( newstate == 0 )

EnableTeleporting

EnableLevitation

endif

set disablestate to newstate

endif

end

Note: DisableTeleporting does not disable scripted amulets etc. for teleporting. DinkumThinkum suggested the following workaround which uses GetPCCell to check the player's current location. As long as they're in one of the mod cells, nothing happens. If they're not where they're supposed to be, then the script teleports them back into the correct area: back to the initial entry point for the mod, for example. This wouldn't be exactly the same as blocking the teleports, but it should make the area totally inescapable until you've fulfilled the modder's conditions for getting out legitimately.

Begin DT_Test_BalmoraTrap

If ( GetPCCell, "Balmora" == 1 )

Return

Endif

MessageBox "Off to Balmora with you!"

Player->PositionCell, -21278, -17613, 534, 0, "Balmora (-3, -3)"

End DT_Test_BalmoraTrap