SSE Delayed Action Poisons

[CirnoNeuron]

I am trying to make a poison that slowly takes health away and at a percentage of health remaining, triggers a secondary effect. I am guessing that I want to look at scripts for this, problem is, I don't know scripting very well.

if anyone knows if this is possible and how it is done, I would appreciate a point in the right direction.

[dylbill]

Here's a script that will do this: 

Scriptname SlowPosionEffectScript extends ActiveMagicEffect
{Damage the target's' sActorValue by DamageAmount every UpdateInterval while this effect is active}

String Property sActorValue Auto 
Float Property DamageAmount Auto 
Float Property UpdateInterval Auto 
Actor Target

Event OnEffectStart(Actor akTarget, Actor akCaster)
    Target = akTarget ;save target actor so it can be used in other events in this script
    Target.DamageActorValue(sActorValue, DamageAmount)
    RegisterForSingleUpdate(UpdateInterval)
EndEvent 

Event OnUpdate()
    Target.DamageActorValue(sActorValue, DamageAmount)
    RegisterForSingleUpdate(UpdateInterval)
    ;Update is automatically unregistered when the effect ends.
EndEvent

 

Compile the script, attach it to a magic effect then set the properties in the properties tab in the creation kit. 

Example, if you set sActorValue to "Health", DamageAmount to 2.0 and UpdateInterval to 1.0 it will damage the target's health by 2.0 every second while the effect is active.