I'm trying to think of a good workaround for NPC item damage and health.

As far as armor goes, I've set it as clothing, and moved the armor class to a shield ability on the NPC. This seems to work around armor damage.

Now I'm wondering about weapon damage...

I'm thinking along the lines of giving the items a high health level, and maybe adding a "Begin OnUnequip, remove item, add item" type deal to ensure they always have healthy swords.

Anyone know if that will work? I'm trying to avoid having any dependencies besides stock oblivion, so I'd like to avoid OBSE, etc.

-Andy

That sounds like a good way to do it. You could even use a Leveled List for the "item" you remove/add so that the weapons upgrade as the Player levels up (if you want them to).

Now that I think about it, I'm not sure the NPC ever actually unequips his sword, I'm assuming he simply "unreadies" it.

So I'm trying something like this:

ScriptName NPC-SelfHealingSwordfloat BladeDamaged; We assume the blade will be damaged during combatBegin OnStartCombat	set BladeDamaged to 1EndBegin GameMode        ; If the blade isn't damaged, or we are currently in combat, halt script	if (BladeDamaged != 1) || (IsInCombat == 1)		return	endif        ; Otherwise we remove the sword and add a new one:	if (GetItemCount SelfHealingSword > 0)		UnEquipItem SelfHealingSword		RemoveItem SelfHealingSword 1		AddItem SelfHealingSword 1		set BladeDamaged to 0		EquipItem SelfHealingSword	endifEnd

Now I need to think of a good way to actually test it... hmmm

I don't think this works... :/

I really have no idea if this works or not... It's kind of hard to test.

It LOOKS like it should work, and I do notice that the NPCs running it, tend to "shuffle" their swords after leaving combat...

If you disable and then enable the NPC would the health and enchantments of the weapon/armor not reset?