Coding Help "season_day" dialogue for custom npc

[raydad]

hi i hope im doing this thread thingy right. also im not an english native so sorry for possible weird phrasings.

i'm creating a custom npc and i really want to make him able to say one specific line for one specific date every year (it's about another character's bday and he's gonna say something along the lines of "oh it's x's birthday tomorrow i need to prepare a present!"). i know there's a key for a dialogue on a particular day of month like "spring_14" but it works only for the first year. and i need my npc to say this line every year. i've tried literally every method i can possibly think of but none of them seems to work.

so the question is: 1) is it even possible to create a specific date line for all the following years after the first one? 2) if yes - how?

(i'm creating this npc using both miss coriel's npc creator and writing stuff into the .json files directly myself, if it'll help somehow)

 

[azurl]

I may be able to help you. but I need to see how you get the current season and day to determine what the NPC says.
I've been poking around in the code myself for as mod I'm making and the Game1 class exposes what you need.

 

[raydad]

I may be able to help you. but I need to see how you get the current season and day to determine what the NPC says.
I've been poking around in the code myself for as mod I'm making and the Game1 class exposes what you need.

i'm trying to follow author-guide for content patcher on github. smapi doesn't say there are any errors or anything but this dialogue still doesn't work (i'm neither a coder nor a skilled sdv modder so i'm sure it looks silly)

 

[azurl]

i'm trying to follow author-guide for content patcher on github. smapi doesn't say there are any errors or anything but this dialogue still doesn't work (i'm neither a coder nor a skilled sdv modder so i'm sure it looks silly)
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I will see if I can help you later today or tomorrow if I get some time after work.
I'm quite curious about this myself.

 

[azurl]

Try DayOfMonth instead of Day. see if that works at all. I'm working exclusively in backend so I can't test this myself at the moment.

 

[azurl]

i'm trying to follow author-guide for content patcher on github. smapi doesn't say there are any errors or anything but this dialogue still doesn't work (i'm neither a coder nor a skilled sdv modder so i'm sure it looks silly)
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According to the wiki dayOfMonth only works on first year, to work around this you might need to add firstOrLaterYear, setting it to 1 will make it hit on first year, setting it to 2 will make it hit on any year after.

 

[raydad]

According to the wiki dayOfMonth only works on first year, to work around this you might need to add firstOrLaterYear, setting it to 1 will make it hit on first year, setting it to 2 will make it hit on any year after.
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GOD BLESS YOUR KIND SOUL ngl i remember about those values for years but i wasn't sure how to put them with what i needed to do. i was just trying to smash it together into one new value i guess. now i've tried to do this (the first pic with code) AND IT SEEMS TO BE WORKING?? no errors or anything neither from smapi nor from content patcher. once again thank you very much /pos /gen

 

[azurl]

I'm happy I could help :)