Hello,

I have a potion that I am working on which uses a script. And that script is not working. I am hoping someone knows what I am doing wrong.

The potion is intended to give a timed effect, with the end result similar to the Perk: Avoid Death. The idea being you can drink the potion, and for the next X period of time if a hit brings you to less than 10% of your health, it will heal you.

Overall, I have this working just fine.

What I cannot get to work is that once the it heals you, I want the overall potions effect to be dispelled.

The potion has a magic effect as normal. The magic effect runs the script. The script then does an OnHit event to cast the healing spell - and hopefully to ultimately dispel its own magic effect.

The script's code is:

Scriptname GBobMagicItemPotionAvoidDeath extends ActiveMagicEffect  ; based upon Avoid Death perk and script in Vanilla SkyrimSpell Property HealSpell  Auto  float Property PercentHealth = 100.0 Auto  MagicEffect Property EffectToDispel Auto; ready to heal youEvent OnHit(ObjectReference akAggressor, Form akSource, Projectile akProjectile, bool abPowerAttack, bool abSneakAttack, bool abBashAttack, bool abHitBlocked ); ;	debug.trace(self + " Enter Bleedout");		; cast heal spell	PercentHealth = GetTargetActor().GetAVPercentage("Health")	If (PercentHealth < 0.1)		HealSpell.Cast(GetTargetActor())		if (GetTargetActor().hasMagicEffect(EffectToDispel)=1)			GetTargetActor().EffectToDispel.Dispel()		endif	EndIfendEvent

The lines:

if (GetTargetActor().hasMagicEffect(EffectToDispel)=1)
GetTargetActor().EffectToDispel.Dispel()
endif

... are the overall problem that I cannot get to work as it does not compile. I believe I am using the whole MagicEffect and dispel incorrectly, but cannot find a good reference or example on how to do it.

Essentially, it is this ActiveMagicEffect that I want to remove (dispel, etc) immediately after the healing spell is cast.

Does anyone have any advice?

Thanks in advance!

You're going to like the simplicity of this solution. Instead of:

HealSpell.Cast(GetTargetActor())if (GetTargetActor().hasMagicEffect(EffectToDispel)=1)   GetTargetActor().EffectToDispel.Dispel()endif

Just put this in your code:

HealSpell.Cast(GetTargetActor())dispel()

And you can ditch the MagicEffect property altogether. You've been trying to dispel the base MagicEffect, which is just a template on which this active effect is based. Using the "dispel()" command (or "self.dispel()" will do the same thing) will instead dispel this particular effect.