good idea for soul gem mod, where do i start?

[AxeVII]

ok, do you guys hate it when you capture a petty soul and fill up a greater soul gem because all your others were already filled?

 

me too, and i think its time i did something about it.

 

you know when you trap a soul, and a message comes on the screen saying "soul gem filled"

i want to make that more specific, like for example "common soul gem filled 2/7"

 

would i do something like this

 

debug.messagebox (" X soulgem filled Y/Z ")

 

where

X = class of soul gem

y = filled gems of that type

z = total gems of that type

 

i dont know much about scripting using papyrus yet, but im learning

 

i see this may fit better in the request thread, but i wasn't really requesting someone to do this for me. i simply wanted more technical info about how soul trapping works.

i just wanted some tips on what kind of things i should be looking into for a better understanding of how the vanilla soul gem mechanics work.

would i need to make a script that checks the inventory for empty and filled soul gems, much like the transmute spell does for iron, silver, and gold ores?

like as a conditional, if an empty lesser soul is removed and a filled one is replaced, then show my messagebox saying what kind, how many filled and empty.

 

i thought of another approach that might work as well

just have a messagebox saying how many of each empty gem when you equip a (presumably custom) soul trap spell

 

anything that might point me in the right direction?

i think its a golden idea (probably attempted before in a different way though)

im new to modding skyrim, but i want to start off with something unique and different from the usual

Edited June 11, 2013 by AxeVII

[AxeVII]

sorry, didn't mean to reply to my own post...

 

is there an event for when a soul is trapped?

if so, that can be my trigger to show the notification.

just need to know how to check the player character's inventory for how many empties of each kind of soul gem.

 

think i may need to take baby steps first, papyrus is a lot to take in at once.

 

blah, and i want to major in computer science. i need to learn this stuff, but its a bit intimidating...

Edited June 11, 2013 by AxeVII