I am creating a "debug mod" to help me play through some mods I used to use years ago because I am feeling nostalgic but don't have time to actually pick up the game again for a long term basis at this time. Basically I want to put an item in the first town, which when I pick it up gives me a certain other item, then deletes itself. How would I script this?

begin debug_scri

short OnPCAdd

if ( OnPCAdd )
    Player->AddItem "OtherItem" 1
    Player->RemoveItem "DebugItem" 1
endif

end

Sometimes removing an item from within its own script can cause a crash, but for something this simple I doubt you'll have any problems.

It crashed

I prefer onActivate. Add the desired item to the player-> and then disable the activated item, wait for a couple of frames and the delete it, like

short s1
;
if ( getDisabled == 1 )
  set s1 to s1 + 1
  if ( s1 > 3 )
    setDelete 1
  endif
return
endif
;
if ( onActivate == 1 )
  player->addItem "Whatever" 1
  disable
  set s1 to 0 ; # just to be sure, in case you use this var for other purposes elsewhere in the script
  return
endif
;
; # Whatever else the item that you pick up may do like float and rotate or shrink and expand ...
;

I do it all the time, and it always worx nicely.

Yeah, activate could do it. Or drop then delete.


I gotta ask though, why not just do a simple console command?

Player->AddItem "item name" 1