I have a >Magic Effect with the below script on it.
The magic effect is assigned to an >Enchantment.
The enchantment is assigned to an >Explosion.

When the player pulls a lever, any 'dead bodies' in the area of the explosion are looted and then deleted. (using a placeatme of the explosion object on an XMarker. The script will then run on objects in the explosion range.)

This works perfect for dead bodies.
Does anyone know how I would go about checking if the object is a 'dropped' weapon? Or if it will even momentarily run on a weapon?

 Scriptname LevelersArenaDeathScript extends activemagiceffect ObjectReference Property LevelersArenaChestREF  Auto Event OnEffectStart(Actor akTarget, Actor akCaster) if akTarget.IsDead()    akTarget.RemoveAllItems(akTransferTo = LevelersArenaChestREF)    akTarget.Delete() endifendEvent

Well, the only parameters for OnEffectStart are actors, which leads me to believe that only actors can run magic effect scripts. I know it doesn't work on doors at any rate.

EDIT:

A way around this would be to have the explosion spawn an activator, which could be scripted to use http://www.creationkit.com/FindClosestReferenceOfAnyTypeInList_-_Game to remove weapons.

That just might work, it can be a command on the lever. Thanks, I will try it out now.

It will not work in my lever's 'ObjectReference' type of script.

What do you mean by 'spawn an activator'? I have not seen the 'Game' type of script and I am not sure how its used.

Game functions should be available in pretty much any script, you'd just type:

Game.FindClosestReferenceOfAnyTypeInList(parameters)

You can consider 'Game' a library, same for 'Utility' and 'Math'. You can use the function simply by adding 'import Game' to your script. Or you could just use Game.FindClosestReferenceOfTypeInList(your list property).


I had assumed you were causing your explosions with spells, so maybe it works differently. But by spawning an activator, I mean this:

It's possible to assign explosions to a magic effect, so that when the spell impacts something, an explosion is created (eg the VoiceThrowVoiceEffect magic effect of the VoiceThowVoice shout spawns the ThrowVoiceExplosion). You can assign a placed object to an explosion, so that when the explosion occurs, the object is created at the explosion (eg the VoiceCastMarker is created by the ThrowVoiceExplosion).

Okay, I had the function scripted wrong... Thats why it would not comile.

I had imported the 'Game' so that was covered. I did not use the '=', I used the '.' instead, so it was a 'fail'.

As for the magic effect, that is an enchantment attached 'to' the explosion. But I am not using this function in that script. I am adding this function to the lever that creates the explosion.

Now to go test it since its compiling now. I will report later if it works.

It works. Sort of.

The afRadius (Maximum distance from center to look) does not appear to work. The weapon has to be extremely close to the center of the function call.
I have made the radius 500, 1000 and even 10000 and it only works on weapons in the list that are close. I will give it some more testing, just to make sure its not something else.

well it finds the closest one...thus the name of the function? Are you saying that if there are no close ones at all, it doesn't come back with one if there are some others further away?

It will 'grab' them 'if' they are close to the epicenter. I can 'move' the weapons closer and it will then 'grab' them when I pull the lever.
I put the command in a while loop, so it should at least grab the closest 10 weapons.

I am going to try some ridiculously high radius amounts and see if that helps.


ObjectReference Property ObjWeapon Auto Hidden

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   myLoop = 10  While myLoop > 0      ObjWeapon = FindClosestReferenceOfAnyTypeInList(WeaponList, 2584.0, 4084.0, -408.0, 50000.5000)      LevelersArenaChestREF.AddItem(ObjWeapon)      ObjWeapon.Delete()      myLoop = myLoop - 1  EndWhile

A thought...how close is your chest to the lever?

Not far, its on the ledge above the arena. But the function is not running on the chest, its running at a location on the arena floor.
But that is not the problem since the weapons are not 'deleted' off the floor unless they are 'selected' from the formlist.
I can move the weapons closer to the 'function location' which is down on the arena floor. Not where the chest is.

If the system you use to spawn the gladiators is by placeatme, I see no problem but if you are using spawn zones, deleting the corpses will avoid them being spawned again.

Actor spawn is handled with PlaceAtMe at XmarkerHeadings so there is not problem with them. Been modding Beth games since 2003 with Morrowind.

I tried several different radi and nothing seemed to work unless the weapon was 'right on the function call point'. Unless someone has any idea's I will have to trash this idea.

Just searched the vanilla game scripts and it appears this function is not used at all.
Perhaps its only in the fragments....

I'd move the chest far far away just to be sure...the find functions CAN locate items inside a chest, and it may be somehow finding them in there. Maybe put the chest in a different cell entirely.

I will remove the part where it moves the items in the chest and see if that works. That way, they do not exist after being cleaned up.

No luck. Its like the radius is at 0. If I can move the weapon in an exact spot, it works.
I suspect the function may not work completely.

Hmn...maybe change to the FindClosestReferenceOfAnyTypeInListFromRef function and put an activator just under the center of the arena to use as your centerpoint?

Tried the REF form of the command with the same results. If its exactly on the marker 'crosshairs' then it works. Otherwise it does not.