Hey guys, I need a bit of help with part of my script.

I'm trying to damage the health of the NPCs' armor and weapon on death.

I've been able to script their armor damage so that it it works perfectly in my script, but I cannot seem to get the equipped weapon's health to be damage. I think that the problem may be mostly because the weapon is often dropped, but even when the weapon is not dropped, it is still not damaged. I've even tried using the right hand slot, without any success. This is the part of my script that I'm having problems with (the armor part works great).

set rTarget to GetCrosshairRefif rTarget.getDead 	set ArmorHealth to rTarget.GetEquippedCurrentHealth 2	if ArmorHealth > 25		set ArmorHealth to 25		rTarget.SetEquippedCurrentHealth ArmorHealth 2	endif	set WeaponHealth to rTarget.GetEquippedCurrentHealth 5	if WeaponHealth > 25 		set WeaponHealth to 25		rTarget.SetEquippedCurrentHealth WeaponHealth 5	endifendif

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Edited: I forgot to add that this is part of a quest script.

Did you remember to make a custom script processing delay time? That is, something like 0.01 s to get it to run in each frame?

Yes, I have the delay set at 0.01.

I did some tests in the console where I clicked dead NPCs and used GetEquippedCurrentHealth. For GetEquippedCurrentHealth 2, I got the health of the armor, but for GetEquippedCurrentHealth 5 (and GetEquippedCurrentHealth 6) I got no result. So it would seem that weapons are automatically unequipped when an NPC dies. An alternative to the script above would be to walk through the inventory of the NPC and handle all their weapons, but it could cause some lag ...

Thanks for doing the tests!

Yes, the unequipping of their weapon on death seems to be the biggest problem. There are times when their weapon is not unequipped . . . perhaps 1 in 10 cases (or even less) . . . and then the second half of my code does work, and their equipped weapon is damaged.

So, now I'm wondering if there is any way to cause them not to unequip their weapon on death.

Zumbs: Er, that's not going to work as inventory walks return base items.
Refwalking all the weapons in the cell and picking the one closest to the dead NPC is probably the closest you're going to get.

They don't drop weapons that are equipped but not drawn, or are flagged as "Can't drop" or "Unplayable".

In most cases, even the dropped weapons are still in their inventory.

So perhaps I'm going about this in the wrong way.

Is there a way to do this using "if menumode 1008" ; ( Container), with a if GetDead condition?

(I wound not mind if all of a dead NPC's inventory was damaged.)

You can use a perk with an Activate entry point with the conditions GetIsObjectType == NPC and GetDead == 1. In the result script of the perk entry point, you can set your quest rTarget variable to GetCrosshairRef, then start your quest script to do the processing on the NPC.

Since there's no way to know what the health of the weapons in the container are, you could set it randomly to various values, with perhaps a cap depending on level, modified by luck, perks, or other factors.
You might approach it this way:
Walk the inventory and add all the weapon-type base objects to a form list, say TargetFormList (Depending on how complicated you want to get, you can set this up to either ignore, or add multiples of the same item)
Remove all the weapons from the NPC - rTarget.RemoveItem TargetFormList 999 <---- learned this trick from TheTalkieToaster
Go back through the TargetFormList and read the first item,
Figure out the random health % you are going to give it - fHealth
Add it to the NPC - rTarget.AddItemHealthPercent 1 fHealth
Repeat for the other items.
Finally, activate the rTarget container for the Player
Stop the quest script until you need it again

That's very interesting, what exactly does that do?

It removes up to 999 of every item in the formlist.

Thanks RickerHK,

but that is way more involved than what I want (and I'm not very confident that I could get that to work).
I still think the best approach for me would be if I could prevent the NPCs from dropping their equipped weapon when they die.

After not having any luck damaging the health of dropped weapons, I'm wondering if there is any possible way to toggle on an off the "playable" tag that is attached to weapons?

I've searched the GECK wiki and the FOSE commands, but cannot see any direct way to do this. So I'm wondering if there might be an indirect way. Any ideas?