Here's my script so far, it's a simple knock-out mace for thieves.

I never put my hands of spells with Papyrus, i totally failed with " cast " so what should i use to paralyze the target ?

Thanks

Scriptname drkKnock extends activemagiceffect  Spell property Paralyze autoEvent OnEffectStart(Actor akTarget, Actor akCaster)If (Game.GetPlayer().IsSneaking() == true)Game.GetPlayer().PushActorAway(akTarget, 0)akTarget.SetUnconscious()Paralyze.Cast(akTarget) < failed hardUtility.Wait(25)endIfEndEventEvent OnEffectFinish(Actor akTarget, Actor akCaster)akTarget.SetUnconscious(false)EndEvent

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Paralyze.Cast(Game.GetPlayer(), akTarget)

Thank you sir.

Another question, is this possible to make a body unlootable ?

Because i'm messing with the resurrect function, and sadly when a NPC is ressurected, his inventory too.

You could try calling BlockActivation() on the NPC... But then you wouldn't be able to talk to him/her either.

BlockActivation worked like a charm, thank you !

Well, i must admit it's sad that players can't loot knocked-out NPC's ( in my mod ) but sadly i don't know another way to fix this.

An exemple :

Player knock a random NPC out, in the script the NPC is now set as dead, so the player can move the ragdoll, interact with it ( only way i found to do this ) for 60 seconds. After 60 seconds, in the script the NPC is now set as resurrected, so he gets up, and get all his stuff back ( because it's how resurrection work with Bethesda ).

Problem is :

1. The player can easily glitch and knock the NPC like 10 times to have almost infinite items since they come back.
2. Seeing a naked body suddenly reappear with all his clothes back kinda ruin the thing.

So the only fix i found was to block the loot. And it works thanks to RandomNoob.

But if someone knows a way to " really " fix this, and still be able to loot, would be awesome.

Sorry for the poor english.

just before you trigger the resurrection, use NPC.RemoveAllItems(ResurectionSaveContainer) to store any unlooted items in a hidden container used only for this purpose, then after you trigger the resurrection, you could use RemoveAllItems() (no passed variable, so it destroys the items), then do ResurrectionSaveContainer.RemoveAllItems(NPC) to return the saved items to the NPC.

Only drawback is, the NPC may not put the restored items on right away.

It seems to work partially, the NPC is naked etc but sadly got some trouble compiling " ResurrectionSaveContainer.RemoveAllItems(NPC) " like you said.

Scriptname drkKnock extends activemagiceffect  ImageSpaceModifier Property GetHit  AutoContainer Property drkSavedItems  Auto  Event OnEffectStart(Actor akTarget, Actor akCaster)If (Game.GetPlayer().IsSneaking() == true)GetHit.Apply(2.0)Game.GetPlayer().PushActorAway(akTarget, 2)Utility.Wait(1)AkTarget.KillSilent()Utility.Wait(20)Debug.SendAnimationEvent(akTarget, "GetUpStart")Utility.Wait(4)AkTarget.RemoveAllItems(akTarget, drkSavedItems)AkTarget.Resurrect()AkTarget.RemoveAllItems()drkSavedItems.RemoveAllItems(akTarget)Utility.Wait(1)Debug.SendAnimationEvent(akTarget, "DrunkStart")Utility.Wait(10)Debug.SendAnimationEvent(akTarget, "DrunkStop")Game.GetPlayer().PushActorAway(akTarget, 3)endIfEndEvent

Try casting it as an ObjectReference.

And you don't pass it the thing it's called on, just where the items are supposed to go.

AkTarget.RemoveAllItems(AkTarget,drksavedItems) would put all the items right back in the NPC. And that shouldn't work anyway, since the second parameter should be a boolean ( since it exists, it evaluates as "True")
after the wait, it should be:

AkTarget.RemoveAllItems(DrkSavedItems)

then later,

(DrkSavedItems as ObjectReference).RemoveAllItems(AkTarget); to put them back after destroying the re-spawned items.

maybe?

I don't even know how .

I edited and showed ya.

Oh, and make sure that you actually have said container out there somewhere of course...heh.

Well sadly this container business does not seems to work.

Have to reblock the activation, sadly.

Oh, it works, you just need to define your container as an Objectreference, and pick it in the render window wherever you placed it. Apparently defining it as a http://www.creationkit.com/Container_Scriptmakes it completely useless (note the utter lack of any functions, events, or anything of any use whatever.)

Container is just a class to manipulate the container object or to detect if an object is in container class. If you add some properties or function in "Container.psc", recompile it, all your container can have these properties/function if you cast them as container after.

I didn't find yet the real use to add something to a class but it's possible, I tried quickly with Weapon class and it works more or less.

So yeah, this time the compilation worked, but it has no effect ingame. The NPC is back with the same items as before.

Don't know why.

Scriptname drkKnock extends activemagiceffect  ImageSpaceModifier Property GetHit  AutoSound Property WPNImpactBluntVsFlesh  AutoObjectReference Property drkSavedItems  Auto  Event OnEffectStart(Actor akTarget, Actor akCaster)If (Game.GetPlayer().IsSneaking() == true)WPNImpactBluntVsFlesh.Play(Game.GetPlayer())GetHit.Apply(4.0)Game.GetPlayer().PushActorAway(akTarget, 3)AkTarget.KillSilent()Game.GetPlayer().PushActorAway(akTarget, 0)Utility.Wait(1)Game.GetPlayer().PushActorAway(akTarget, 0)Utility.Wait(1)Utility.Wait(60)Debug.SendAnimationEvent(akTarget, "GetUpStart")Utility.Wait(4)AkTarget.RemoveAllItems(DrkSavedItems)AkTarget.Resurrect()(DrkSavedItems as ObjectReference).RemoveAllItems(AkTarget)Utility.Wait(1)Debug.SendAnimationEvent(akTarget, "DrunkStart")Utility.Wait(10)Debug.SendAnimationEvent(akTarget, "DrunkStop")Game.GetPlayer().PushActorAway(akTarget, 3)endIfEndEvent

I do wonder what made them switch back to the Morrowind-style resurrect command instead of Oblivion's version (which would allow you to resurrect that instance of an NPC only, and not respawn it).

Don't know why indeed.

So yeah, the SavedItems container works well, it saves items, but the NPC are still back with full items like nothing happened i don't know why.

Damn.

Try adding another RemoveAllItems() in there:

AkTarget.RemoveAllItems(DrkSavedItems)AkTarget.Resurrect()AkTarget.RemoveAllItems()(DrkSavedItems as ObjectReference).RemoveAllItems(AkTarget)

You forgot a line. After the ressurect, you need to use this:

akTarget.RemoveAllItems()

before reloading the saved items from your save barrel..

God damnit i'm [censored].

Thank you very much.

So yeah the script is working fine. A small video :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lKoSP885KA&feature=player_embedded

There's still some rough edges, like the [censored] resurrect fade effect ( once the NPC has played the GetUp animation he get respawned, and as you can see it's not very fluid, we can see the transition ) but otherwise i think it's pretty decent.

Thanks again Redwood and Randomnoob.

I wonder if other NPCs will react to him being nvde like they do when you run around in the buff?

No idea !

I was in tdetect off, for recording purpose, but i will give it a try in " legit " conditions.

Anyway, i'm 100 % sure that the NPC's are reacting to a knocked out corpse like they would do with a dead corpse, because i've seen that in action. Pretty cool side effect actually .

Hmmm, seems everyhing is not truely fixed.

If i knock a NPC out, and if i don't take anything in his inventory, he will resurrect naked for some reason .

Grmrmrmflfppfpffffuuu.