i have another question please...about the cave entrance door again. i havnt deleted any that i know of and i understand when you said it isnt good to delete them and try to put it back out. but im wondering about moving it. is it ok to move a dungeon entrance?

the reason im asking is that i find it annoying that i can throw a rock in any direction in the "wilderness" and hit a cave. i was wanting to spread them out more. maybe even move them completely into another world space im working on creating. is this possible to do cleanly? or would it still result in the ghost door left behind where it used to be?

im wondering if the ghhost door did remain if i might just place a huge rock over it to hide it and if the moved emtrance would then still function ok??

If I want to use armor in one mod in another mod can I just merge them using TES Geko or do I need to copy the meshes and textures and then make the items in that mod?


I.E. I want to use David Brashers KOTN expansion mod and he has the various knights wear diferent armor, but I would like to substitue what armor they use with armor from a couple of different KOTN styled armors

Is it possible to give armor rating to a creature? Or the only way is through a Shield ability? I'd rather prefer another way, since the Shield magic effect seems to work wonky on creatures: even a very small amount causes a great damage reduction, and the creature can even end being completely immune to any and all physical attacks if his Shield pts are high enough.
Edit: hmm, I hadn't tested enough. What happens is that the shield effect does allow creatures to reach 100% damage reduction, whereas NPCs are limited by the max armor rating game setting.

I'm working on a mod to add additional gold to every NPC in the game and I have two questions:

1. Is it possible to do this with a Quest script so I don't have to do it one NPC at a time in the CS?

2. If so, will the extra gold be added again when an NPC respawns?

Just my quick thoughts:

1. I would create an unplayable token item called something like Dontgivememoney. I would run a scripted quest that checks for nearby NPCs, and if found, would check if that NPC has a Dontgivememoney token. If not, it would add some gold and one of those tokens. (getfirstref, getnextref, getitemcount, additem)

2. When the NPC respawns, I believe the inventory will be reset. In that case, the quest script would simply add the gold and token again.

documn's suggestion is sound if you just want everyone to have more money for whatever reason. Note that my mod Enhanced Economy has an option to set a multiplier for how much money dead actors have when looting, or alive NPCs have when pickpocketing (two different multipliers). So if you just want more money to pickpocket or loot, you can use EE.

Thanks. However, my scripting knowledge is very poor. :shakehead: Might such a script look something like this:

scn SVGoldAddScriptref Actorset Actor to GetFirstRef 69 1  If Actor.getitemcount DontGiveMoney == 0	 additem f 50  endifset Actor to GetNextRefloop

My intent is to eventually add other items to NPC inventories depending on several factors (such as Race, Faction, Quest Stage, etc.) and use the GoldAdd script as a base.

Something like, but here's with a few changes (there may be more required).
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scn SVGoldAddScriptref ActorBegin GameModeset Actor to GetFirstRef 69 1While Actor  If Actor.getitemcount DontGiveMoneyToken == 0	 additem Gold001 50	 additem DontGiveMoneyToken 1  endif  set Actor to GetNextRefloopEnd

I added the "While Actor" line to match your loop, added "Token" to the token name for best compatibility, swapped gold's formId for its editorId (formId is used in the console, editorId in scripts), and added the token to the actor (if not, the 50 gold would be added each frame the script ran). And finally put it inside a gamemode block.

I can see one problem with this script. AddItem f 50 needs to be changed to AddItem Gold001 50 (FormIDs should never be used in scripts). That's all I can see, but my scripting knowledge isn't the best. I'd be interested to know what this script should look like too. It would make one of my current projects a lot easier.

Edit- Ninja'd by TheNiceOne.

A couple of quick questions:

How do I get an NPC to "visually" activate a container. ie, to bend down, and fiddle with it for a bit, before getting up. Like the guards do on dead NPCs? (The body's fresh, there's a killer on the loose!) I used "RPSQ01SanvynCupboard.activate" in the NPC's script and although the next lines were processed, it didn't look like anything had happened.

Number 2:
I've attached a script to several light sources, so that they turn off at certain points in the day, and different ones turn on. That works just fine. But whenever I load the CS I get a whole load of messages complaining that 'Light X has a script containing a "getself" on a carryable form'. I would understand this if the light sources could be carried, but they are not set to be that in the CS, and they do not even have world models (they are "hollywood" lightsources) It's not causing any problems in game, but is there anything I can do to stop the messages from popping up?

Theniceone's script looks good to me.

Thanks! Should I make this a Quest script or should I add it to a token and add the token to the player?

Is there any way to compile only one script at a time?

Yes. That's essentially what you do when you save a script - Compile it.

thankyou, lets say i actually wanted to do this on purpose for a moment...lets say that i purposefully move the dungeon to my new world space i create, complete with marking its new location on the map i make and erasing it from the old map. i assume the old persistant door would still be seen there like you say. but cant i just place a huge rock over it to hide it? as long as the new door and entrance link where i moved it to will work then i should be able to get away with this right?

I'm trying to make an activator using the arwelkyditem01.nif. I want the Player to be able to activate it (by touching it), but I don't want it to fall (like welkynd stones do when they're hit with something). How do I modify the .nif to accomplish this?

I don't know nifskope, so if it were me, I'd import the nif into blender, then export it with the collision type set to static. But you can go into nifskope, find the BKCollision block (something like that) and modify it so it is static rather than clutter. Not sure which precise buttons to press though.

Couldn't you just create a new Activator form, and have the .nif file set as the arwelkyditem01.nif, or does that make it fall?

Thanks! I'll look into both methods.


The havoc physics are part of the .nif, so it would still fall like a normal welkynd stone (I found this out the hard way).

Is there any way to temporarily disable the messages that pop up when you add or remove something from your inventory? For example, it's kind of annoying when you have to see 1000 "removed 100 apples" when you're using an alchemy sorter. I've seen some mods do this, but I have no idea how....

Thanks!

Use the OBSE functions http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/AddItemNS and http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/RemoveItemNS. A workaround used before these functions were available was printing an empty message twice before adding a lot of items. That and other techniques are explained here: http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Message_Spam.

Okay, I made this a Quest script, but it won't let me save it. I get this error message:


The script will save as an Object script. So should I make a token with this script and use a quest script to add it to the player?

Edit- Okay that caused CTD immediately. I also tried changing the script a bit. I changed additem Gold001 50 to Actor.additem Gold001 50 and did the same for the token (thanks Qazaaq). That version did save as a Quest script, but it also caused a CTD as soon as I put the crosshair on an NPC. :banghead: What do I need to do to get this to work? :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

The function addItem requires a reference to operate on. In other words the function needs to know which actor will be getting the item. You need to specify this with the dot syntax: Actor.addItem.

Object scripts assume you want to perform each function on the object it's attached to. That's why it allows you to save it as an object script.

NVM- Wrong Forum.

Is it possible through scripting or otherwise to determine what the player was just damaged by? Like can a script tell the difference between a blade hit and a blunt hit? Or even an arrow hit? If so, is it possible to tell each time the player is hit without being too performance hungry?