Hi guys

Can anyone suggest a way to apply a magic effect script to any object in the game world? I have a Papyrus script applied to a Magic Effect I created which currently extends ActiveMagicEffect, however ActiveMagicEffect only seems to have the function to return a target of type Actor. I am wondering if there is a way to use the "self" to get a reference to any object targeted by the spell, eg. a barrel. I haven't been able to get this to work so far. I am still trying to understand the Papyrus scripting language. In Oblivion I seem to remember I could just make a SpellEffect that went:

begin ScriptEffectStart   set spellTarget to getSelf   spellTarget.doSomethingend

So I am trying to figure out how to do this for Skyrim. I don't really know which Event to use either.

I would appreciate any help!

As far as I know, spells are only intended to target actors, not objects...which is indeed sad...

Telekinesis targets objects, so I don't know if thats entirely true, though maybe the fact that TK can target an object is something inherent to the Telekinesis archetype and can't be accessed by any other type of spell.

Yeah but there must be a way. In Oblivion you didn't have to rely on an inbuilt function to get the reference to the spell target.

theres a thread around here somewhere about an unlock spell working on a work around for targeting doors with spells. try doing a search for that.

The http://www.creationkit.com/OnMagicEffectApply_-_ObjectReference event seems to fire for some types of http://www.creationkit.com/ObjectReference_Script, but not others. I think it works on world objects, but not items, although I haven't tested this exhaustively.

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EDIT:

Oh, and this code for Oblivion:

begin ScriptEffectStart   set spellTarget to getSelf   spellTarget.doSomethingend

Is exactly the same as this code:

begin ScriptEffectStart   doSomethingend

With the slight difference that the second bit of code is slightly faster.

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Cool, that event could probably work, but how do I refer to the spell target? I don't think you can just go "disable()"...

And lol good point about that code. I just got the example by modifying one of Bethesda's scripts slightly.

OMG. That would mean...it should work with doors? I will try when I arrive at home

I know that you meant otherwise, but... on the other hand, do you really need that spell to open the doors of your home? :>

The only problem being that you need the object reference in the first place. A glaring oversight that far too many people are having trouble with.

We might have to listen to cscottydont and do what they ended up doing in http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1346360-so-whats-the-problem-with-creating-an-unlock-spell/page__p__20302578__hl__unlock%20spell__fromsearch__1#entry20302578 :\

Damn you Bethesda! You should have left things the way they worked in TES IV.

Yes, I always lose my keys, so until there is a mod to bash open the door, I need a spell! hahaha!

Now I'm doing http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1352976-a-working-open-door-spell/ to target objects. I am not sure if there is a way to target any object yet, but at least you could use it (with an explosion placed scripted item in case you want a ranged spell) to target the nearest object of a kind using GetIsObjectType in the Alias window.

As you see in the link you posted, before I was using GetClosestReference...from List functions, but like that you had to keep a list of all objects you were interested in, and it wasn't...cool

Hope it helps!