Hi there, i am new to the forum and to scripting. I have a mod with some guard NPCs that i want to script so that at gamehour 22 (before they go to sleep) their longsword, shield, gauntlets, armor etc. respawns, that is all i want to do. This is because the guards frequently have ongoing battles and i notice their armor and weapons take damage and maintain it right until the NPC dies before the whole NPC itself respawns. As said i need to script the guards so that at a certain time each day/week their armor and weapons are replaced. I am having problems in construction set, i know about additem and removeitem and number count, and "on gamemode", so far unfortunately my script mod has made the NPC just spawm loads of weapons and armor at a particular time of the day rather than just remove one item and replace it with one other item. I would greatly appreciate if someone would spare me enough time to write me here a small script and leave a space or symbol to represent the object ID that i want to remove and replace, thanks.

ScriptName AttachThisObjectScriptToYourNPCInt bReplaceStuffBegin GameMode	If (GameHour >= 22) != bReplaceStuff		Set bReplaceStuff to (bReplaceStuff == 0)		If bReplaceStuff			RemoveItem EditorID 1			AddItem EditorID 1		EndIf	EndIfEndIf

...should do it.

Will selecting levelled list items respawn?

*LVLIs can be added but not removed. Items must be added and removed individually.

Retroactive interference: Guess that only works with the Fallouts...

so that can compensate for the script then? Does that mean all individual items need to be removed when leveled lists are placed into inventory, such as rings and amulets don't need to be respawned?

It's probably because I'm a noob, but I don't really get the script. I'd try this if that doesn't work:

ScriptName AttachThisObjectScriptToYourNPCshort bReplaceStuffBegin GameMode	If (GameHour >= 22) && (bReplaceStuff == 0)		Set bReplaceStuff to 1		RemoveItem item1 1		AddItem item1 1		RemoveItem item2 1		AddItem item2 1;		...	ElseIf (GameHour < 22) && (bReplaceStuff == 1)		Set bReplaceStuff to 0	endifEndIf

With the Fallouts, a LVLI can be added and all the items will be given, but it looks like only one item from a list is added with Oblivion, so I'd just add and remove everything individually.It's the same ol' same ol'... but with less code. Set Boolean to (Boolean == 0) toggles it to whatever it's not, making for one check per iteration rather than two. Particularly in GameMode, one should keep things 'cheap'.

[yes, it works]

Also: Int, Long, and Short are all interchangeable. Int just makes for less typing. *is lazy*

OK... I think I get it now...

And I wasn't sure whether or not "int" was an OBSE variable. I see it in the OBSE documentation but not on the http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Category:Variables.

I tripped on the 'Set Bool to Bool == 0' hinge ...thing too, at first (Cipscis' code), but it's quite enabling once it clicks.

Int is indeed a stock variable (integer).

ok thanks, i'll have to see when NPCs are havign a battle, have a look at the armor the next day to see if it is back to hundred percent health. You wouldn't happen to know anything about why a shield, once an NPC has been killed, appears in a red hand icon, rather than a white, considering the shield is not attached to any faction, and it is ok for me to loot all other items from the npc? It doesn't come up as a stolen item though, when i take it. Could it be the .nif files of the shield that is displaying this red hand icon? Ok that was my last question.

No prob All should go well with that template script.

Stolen shields: Are you certain the soldier was dead rather than set as essential and merely unconscious? If that's not it, I'd have to see the plugin and witness it to try to figure that one out. Sorry....

I figured it out, it was because i left "can corpse check" on, i thought that just meant you could search the npcs body. But when i turned it off then the shield appeared with a white hand icon. Thanks for your help, and i wonder if i can delete this thread, so other posts can receive important attention.