Raising defense : Fallout: New Vegas

» Sun Aug 22, 2010 5:36 am

I'm looking up ideas on how to force the player to become 'invincible' for a short amount of time.

I've thought about modAv, and cant see how that would really work in the given circumstances.

Any theories?

» Sun Aug 22, 2010 7:52 am

I'm looking up ideas on how to force the player to become 'invincible' for a short amount of time.

I've thought about modAv, and cant see how that would really work in the given circumstances.

Any theories?

make a piece of armor that covers everything, but the mesh is empty and also unequip the weapons

» Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:36 pm

make a piece of armor that covers everything, but the mesh is empty and also unequip the weapons

Not a bad idea, then I suppose run a getseconds passed script to force the armour to be equipped for x minutes, and upon x minutes counting down to 0, unequip the armour?

Wouldnt the player be able to see this though?

» Sun Aug 22, 2010 10:28 am

Not a bad idea, then I suppose run a getseconds passed script to force the armour to be equipped for x minutes, and upon x minutes counting down to 0, unequip the armour?

Wouldnt the player be able to see this though?

woops you said invincible not invisible, ok thats less complicated, I am not sure for Fallout, but for Oblivion it was setghost 1, then everything passes through you. you could also do a placeatme, that puts a dome around the player, but it is just collision, no actual mesh

» Sun Aug 22, 2010 9:46 am

Easiest is to just call ResetHealth on them each frame, or add an ability with RestoreHealth +999.

» Sun Aug 22, 2010 9:49 am

Easiest is to just call ResetHealth on them each frame, or add an ability with RestoreHealth +999.

Swarley, ahhh I see

gotcha

Talkie, that would work I guess, yeah

I'll try and report back

» Sun Aug 22, 2010 2:16 pm

woops you said invincible not invisible, ok thats less complicated, I am not sure for Fallout, but for Oblivion it was setghost 1, then everything passes through you. you could also do a placeatme, that puts a dome around the player, but it is just collision, no actual mesh

the "utter dome" idea would make the NPCs behave very oddly though, because they would see an obstruction on the landscape and engage pathfinding to get around it, seeing no path they might behave in undefined ways, especially melee-using NPCs.

» Sun Aug 22, 2010 6:25 pm

the "utter dome" idea would make the NPCs behave very oddly though, because they would see an obstruction on the landscape and engage pathfinding to get around it, seeing no path they might behave in undefined ways, especially melee-using NPCs.

no it wouldn't the path-finding is generated in the GECK, not when a cell is actually loading

» Sun Aug 22, 2010 9:16 am

no it wouldn't the path-finding is generated in the GECK, not when a cell is actually loading

You're right, however their pathfinding is undefined for walls not found in the GECK navmesh, because as it stands walls aren't generated dynamically in-game. When they run into said wall they might continue trying to execute what they're doing, running in place, clip, or do other odd things.

» Sun Aug 22, 2010 3:26 pm

You're right, however their pathfinding is undefined for walls not found in the GECK navmesh, because as it stands walls aren't generated dynamically in-game. When they run into said wall they might continue trying to execute what they're doing, running in place, clip, or do other odd things.

its gonna be just encompassing the player, so it won't cause that much trouble since it is not that big of an object, and no one will really run up that close to a player, even melee attacks are a ways away

» Sun Aug 22, 2010 7:14 am

Couldn't you just modav damagethreshold 1000, then modav damagethreshold -1000 afterward?

» Sun Aug 22, 2010 1:21 pm

Couldn't you just modav damagethreshold 1000, then modav damagethreshold -1000 afterward?

Tried that already, doesn't seem to work

» Sun Aug 22, 2010 8:44 pm

Edit:

Scratch that, I used the ghost script and it seems to work spiffingly

» Sun Aug 22, 2010 8:01 am

Edit:

Scratch that, I used the ghost script and it seems to work spiffingly

haha I win again