So I've been looking at the CK Wiki for the past two hours and it's really confusing. There aren't examples for all of the types of scripts, so can someone do a quick example script for me?

How would you write a script to add to a magic effect that would kill the target upon impact?

I don't really understand the syntax, but I think it would start with:

ScriptName *insertmagiceffectnamehere* extends ActiveMagicEffect

If I just had an example to work off that would be awesome.

Don't make things so complicated.

For example you could just copy the fireboltspell and alter Damage to like 9999999999999Pts and give it a speical effect

It's not the effect I want, but the scripting knowledge.

I'd expect this to work, although I haven't tested it:

ScriptName InstantKillEffectScript extends ActiveMagicEffectEvent OnEffectStart(Actor akTarget, Actor akCaster)	akTarget.Kill(akCaster)EndEvent

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Worked perfectly, and I think I'm getting the idea of the syntax. Thank you.

Glad I could help

I find that the http://www.creationkit.com/Category:Events page is possibly the most useful reference page on the wiki when planning and writing scripts. You'll likely also need to look up documentation on functions that you want to use, but to start with you'll need to know what events are available.

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