Help with Newbie Tutorial

[Ming]

Having a bit of a problem here. . .

Ok, I've decided to try my hand at editing this game and am trying to go through the Newbie modding tutorial.  

Unfortunately, no matter how many times I try it, I cannot enter the 'Horse Emporium' I have just created.  When attempting to do so, I get a message that says 'You approach Horse Emporium' and then the standard attack options for when you encounter a hostile party.  Following the tutorial to the best of my ability, this happens without fail. When I tried to be sneaky, and used the unofficial editor to make the Emporium and circumvent the module system, the same thing happens.  

Now, I'm pretty sure I know what's wrong:  I'm missing something blindingly obvious and fundamental.   But I just can't seem to figure it out.  I swear I'm following the tutorial exactly. . . but I obviously can't be.  Gone through 5 or 6 times now and (Uninstall, reinstall after each failed attempt.) am at the end of my rope.   Any help?

[Janus]

That tutorial is slightly outdated. The encounter code has changed in .731 so that the encounters are first checked through the new encounter trigger in simple_triggers.py before being routed to the game menus. You need to add a check in there to reference your Horse Emporium menu. You can model it along the way it checks for some of the other places.

[Ming]

Thanks for responding.  I've just started familiarizing myself with editing concepts so I'm a little dumb.

Are you saying I need to add another else step to the module_simple_triggers script?

[Janus]

Thanks for responding.  I've just started familiarizing myself with editing concepts so I'm a little dumb.

Are you saying I need to add another else step to the module_simple_triggers script?

Correct, an extra

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        (else_try),
           (eq, reg(1), "p_four_ways_inn"),
           (jump_to_menu, "mnu_four_ways_inn"),
in there with "p_four_ways_inn" changed to the name of your horse emporium party (with correct "p_" prefix), and "mnu_four_ways_inn" (with "mnu_" prefix) changed the same way to point to your menu.

[Ming]

Thanks! tried it and worked.

Hmmm, I thought I read something about the tutorial being updated. . . must have got confused.

[Janus]

No problem.