jonpetro

I'm thinking a true "full" respawn of all cells, maybe every few days, with some additional provisions to help "clean up" the world- 1) remove all corpses 3) replace all taken items, including picked ingredients etc. 3) remove all items not native to the cell 4) replace all moved items in a cell to their starting position

I'm working on a mod that randomly assigns new weapons to enemies. The problem is, these enemies need ammo for their new gear, and I'm not particularly keen on manually adding the different ammo types on a case-by-case basis. I've tried something like: set rAmmo to rWeapon.GetWeaponAmmo rMob.additem rAmmo 20 ..but evidently the function doesn't work the way I need it to. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Mod is coming along nicely. The equip routines are working well, and the resulting encounters are getting pretty interesting. A question though - How would I go about skipping "Special" npc's. For example - quest-related npc's, or the tied-up prisoners in the legion camps (silly to have them spawn with full equipment), or just npc's that should really have a set, unvarying appearance? Is there a simple universal way to lump all the "cannon fodder" npc's into on group? Ideally I just want "combat-oriented" npc's to receive random gear, though I will take steps to make sure faction appears remains true to the theme of the game. Any suggestions?

Great suggestions, kudos mate.

The actor values seem to work as you described -- thanks for the quick response! You were also correct about the weapon glitching/becoming invisible upon the additem call. This poses a bit of a problem, so I'm hoping for some insight.. To better explain my intent, the mod will essentially strip all "normal" NPC's naked when a player enters a cell, then re-equip them with random gear based on their normal load, stats, faction, abilities, etc. It will then randomize certain item properties (magazine size, rate of fire, sway, etc.) or possibly apply small stat bonuses or penalties, in an effort to add a bit of variety and excitement to item drops. The problem is, the transition is already far from seamless - When you enter a new cell within visual range of NPC's, you will see them stripped and re-equipped, and of course the newly added weapon ends up glitched. Anyhow, any suggestions on how to make the transition a bit more elegant, or at least remedy the weapon glitch expediently, would be much appreciated. Thanks! Regards, Jon

Here's the long and short of it, and I suspect I'm going about this entirely wrong... I am writing a mod that checks all existing NPC spawns when the player enters a cell, and will at some point randomly requip them with custom gear. So far I've set up a game mode block that stores the current cell in a variable after the first iteration, so I can skip multiple passes on the same cell. Yes, this seems silly and convoluted, but to be honest, the G.E.C.K. scripting format seems pretty silly and convoluted, so I'm working with what I got. Anyhow. This is all technically well and good, but it brings me to my second point. I don't want to re-quip NPC's every single time the player enters a cell, just the first time (until the NPC respawns). This means I either need to somehow mark the cell to be skipped until the re-spawn timer kicks, or the modified NPC's need to be marked themselves, either through a custom boolean variable or some kind of workaround. I was hoping someone with a better understanding of the GECK could offer up some insight, since I've just started playing with it. Thanks.

BTT. Someone's gotta have an idea, this would REALLY simplify things for me!

I need to add a local string variable that can be set on items. I've compiled a .gda named var_item that has the additional variable and I placed it in my core/override, but I can't seem to get it to apply to items, only the mod - ie. If I use GetModule() instead of the item object, it pulls the correct value. Any help would be appreciated.

I've just about finished a fairly large mod that creates random drops on creatures and placeables, and also adds a chance of adding random magical effects and properly renaming the item using SetName(). The problem is, after you logout and resume the game the restrung names go back to their default item name. The other properties seem unaffected. Anyone know a fix?

Any ideas?

All I'm trying to do is change the char's starting points from 5 to 10. I've already updated the M2DA, but I can't get anything to work. #include "events_h" #include "sys_chargen_h" void main() { event ev = GetCurrentEvent(); int nEvent = GetEventType(ev); object oOwner = GetEventCreator(ev); switch(nEvent) { case EVENT_TYPE_CHARGEN_START: { int nMode = GetEventInteger(ev, 0); object oChar = GetEventObject(ev, 0); if(nMode == CHARGEN_MODE_CREATE) { SetCreatureProperty(oChar, PROPERTY_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE_POINTS, 10.0, PROPERTY_VALUE_BASE); break; } else { break; } } } }

I would like to add a few things to the standard character sheet, mainly any elemental damage bonuses you may have. Where would I find the file containing the information that is displayed when you press 'c'? Thanks.

When I try to open areadata.xls in the toolset I get an error - "The editing of the game resource failed. Reason: Unable to locate editor for object. Isn't there some sort of script that sets mob level based on area level? (I am also assuming mob stats are subsequently scaled to mob level, which *hopefully* is the case.) Like I said, this is pretty new for me, and while I have some coding experience, my problem lies in navigating as well as understanding where everything is in the source files, and how they relate to one another. ETA: I am familiar with sys_autoscale_h - and have modified it with some success thus far, though any attempts to alter mob level within this header has yielded poor results. Perhaps I am not exporting the file properly? I understand that with .h files you need to recompile all dependent/associated files, which I believe is done through the export tool? I must confess I am not sure exactly how the export tool works, or when and how it needs to be used to ensure that all the included files are updated. Sorry I am so clueless, I really appreciate any help with this. :)

Pretty simple, but I'm completely new to this. I essentially want to make all mob's spawn at twice their given level. Which file(s) set mob level, and where exactly? Thanks.

I think that's a great idea. A lot of times, particularly when using OOO, your enemy's health is massive and their resistances to various forms of damage are high, so it would be especially helpful seeing which types of attacks are more effective and to get an idea of how much damage per second different types of weapons and effects inflict. In fact, a DPS variable could be used to actually calculate and display your damage per second, which could simply run down when out of combat, or possibly be manually cleared in order to test different setups. But I feel it would still give a good idea of the balance between weapon speed, range, weapon type, damage, etc. ETA: I am a fairly competent programmer but for some reason TESCS just eludes me as to the formative application of mods that actually interact with the in-game algorithms. If there is a good tutorial that references this particular aspect of the editor I would love to look it over. Thanks for the replies.