LE Help please. Limit number of childwisps + distinct wispmother superior

[irswat]

I want to limit the number of childwisps a wisp mother can summon. Fought a wispmother the other day and she summoned like 30 wisps! Unacceptable. I also want to make a wispmother unique in appearance when she summons a child wisp by forcing her to wear a crown. I'm going to try my hand at this later.

My initial thoughts:

I'll add a counter so every time an orb/childwisp is summoned the counter will increment. Every time a childwisp dies the counter will decrement. Wispmother will only summon orb if number of childwisps < 9.

My pseudocode.

if (number of childwisps>=1)
{
int WispMotherID=self.GetFormID
int CrownID=DLC1LD_AetherialCrown.GetFormID

Game.WispMotherID.AddItem(CrownID, 1, true)
WispMother.EquipItem(CrownID, true)
}
elseif (number of childwisps==0) //does Papyrus use == ?
{
    if (Game.WispMotherID().IsEquipped(CrownID))
     {
     WisMotherID.UnequipItem(CrownID, true)
     }
}endif
//do I need semi colons at the end of statements?

Questions:

Re: the use of self parameter, is this acceptable use of self, does Papyrus even use Self references, and can I use Self in this syntax in trying to obtain the FormID of any given WispMother?

When using AddItem and EquipItem can i use FormID, or must I use BaseID?

I don't want to alter the vanilla wispactorscript. How can I implement a script like this without altering the vanilla script?

Please feel free to share your thoughts.

Edited August 23, 2016 by irswat

[Caerulean]

I can't really help with the scripting part, but as someone who's tried to make use of the vanilla wispactorscript (which seems buggy as heck), I'll share my thoughts.

 

One thing, the wispactorscript, which I believe was intended to create two Wispmother shades (when the Wispmother reaches the low health threshold), seems to have a high tendency to bug out and also create 'shades' of other actors involved in the fight, which often happen to be the Wispmother shades themselves and - apparently as you said - the wisp 'children'. In fortunate cases, only the Wispmother Fog FX, which is also added by the same script, gets mistakenly attached to a different actor. I've tried adding a condition on the Magic Effect (for a different actor which I wanted to use the script on) but to no avail.

 

What can be tried is to create your own edition of the wispactorscript and add the necessary condition(s) or alterations there so that it won't replicate other actors. Then replace the script in the magic effect with yours.

 

^ I hope I made sense 'cause I wrote a lot of information in between sentences. lol

[irswat]

I got it working last night with help from family freddy. I may work on it some more tonight though. Have you ever seen a wispmother superior spawn like 30 wisps?

[Caerulean]

Not really, fortunately. I read somewhere that someone had a similar bug that caused the shades to replicate about that same number, I think. So far, I've only encountered such issues when I tried to make a similar Magic Effect with the wispactorscript.

 

Have you tried testing again without your fix to see if the issue's consistent? Anyway, congrats on getting it to work. :)

[irswat]

Yes, the issue happens without the script. However I'm having some problems getting the script to work.

Here is link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2pmxpz1opvz0p0t/wispActorScript.psc?dl=0

 

Scriptname WispActorScript extends ActiveMagicEffect  
{Abilities and FX for Wisp/Glimmerwitch}
;======================================================================================;
; IMPORTS     /
;=============/
import utility
import form
import debug
;======================================================================================;
; PROPERTIES  /
;=============/
keyword property wispChild01 auto
keyword property wispChild02 auto
keyword property wispChild03 auto
 
spell property wispBuff01 auto
spell property wispBuff02 auto
spell property wispBuff03 auto
 
spell property Phase1ConcSpell auto
{A long range concentration spell for phase #1}
spell property Phase2ConcSpell auto
{Shorter range spell for phase #2}
 
actorBase property encWispShade auto
 
VisualEffect Property WispFXAttachEffect Auto
explosion property ExplosionIllusionLight01 auto
Activator property AshPileObject auto
{The object we use as a pile.}
 
float property PhaseThreeHPPercent auto
{At what % of HP should I spawn my dopplegangers?. DEFAULT: 0.2}
 
Armor Property TGCrown01 Auto
;======================================================================================;
; VARIABLES   /
;=============/
ObjectReference selfRef
 
; let's refer to the witchlights as "orbs" to avoid confusion.
objectReference orb01
objectReference orb02
objectReference orb03
 
objectReference Shade01 
objectReference Shade02
 
;track number of living orb babies
int liveLights = 3
 
; have my FX been attached?
bool bFX = FALSE
 
;counter for number of summoned wisps
int WispChildCount = 0
int ShadeCount = 0
int WispCount = 0
int SpawnFlag = 0
;======================================================================================;
; EVENTS    /
;=============/
EVENT onLoad()
trace("Wisp: Has Loaded 3D ("+selfRef+")")
EVPall()
endEVENT
 
EVENT OnEffectStart(Actor Target, Actor Caster)
trace("AbWisp Effect Start on: "+SelfRef+"")
selfRef = caster
 
if selfref.getLinkedRef() == NONE
; only attack FX at this point if I am not in an ambush link
WispFXAttachEffect.Play(selfRef, -1)
bFX = TRUE
endif
int RemainingWispChildren=(9-WispChildCount)
if RemainingWispChildren>=3
orb01 = selfref.getLinkedRef(WispChild01)
orb02 = selfRef.getLinkedRef(WispChild02)
orb03 = selfRef.getLinkedRef(WispChild03)
WispCount = 3
WispChildCount+=3
elseif RemainingWispChildren == 2
orb01 = selfref.getLinkedRef(WispChild01)
orb02 = selfRef.getLinkedRef(WispChild02)
WispCount = 2
WispChildCount+=2
elseif RemainingWispChildren==1
orb01 = selfref.getLinkedRef(WispChild01)
WispCount = 1
WispChildCount+=1
endif
EVPall()
 
if phaseThreeHPpercent > 1.0
; if we passed a high value, the user probably meant a whole number percentage like 30%
phaseThreeHPpercent = phaseThreeHPpercent/100
endif
ENDEVENT
 
EVENT onGetup(ObjectReference akFurniture)
if akFurniture == selfRef.getLinkedRef() && bFX == FALSE
; if I was in a furniture ambush, then add my FX when I leave it
WispFXAttachEffect.Play(selfRef, -1)
bFX = TRUE
endif
endEVENT
 
Event OnCombatStateChanged(Actor victim, int aeCombatState)
if aeCombatState != 0 ; 0 means not in combat, so non-zero means we entered combat
; debug.trace("Wisp began combat with "+victim+"  ("+self+")")
if aeCombatState == 1
if WispCount==1
(orb01 as actor).startCombat(victim)
Debug.Notification("1 orb spawned")
elseif WispCount == 2
(orb01 as actor).startCombat(victim)
(orb02 as actor).startCombat(victim)
Debug.Notification("2 orbs spawned")
elseif WispCount == 3
(orb01 as actor).startCombat(victim)
(orb02 as actor).startCombat(victim)
(orb03 as actor).startCombat(victim)
Debug.Notification("3 orbs spawned")
endif
; Start listening for critically low HP
registerforSingleupdate(1.0)
endif
endif
endEVENT
 
EVENT onActivate(objectReference actronaut)
; debug.trace("Wisp Activated")
if actronaut == orb01 || orb02 || orb03
utility.wait(0.1)
; debug.trace("Actronaut was one of my orbs")
liveLights -= 1
; debug.trace("Livelights = "+livelights)
if liveLights <= 0
; debug.trace("All child lights dead for "+selfref)
;Variable07 sets up the berserk package/combat style
(selfRef as actor).setActorValue("Variable07",1)
;also "eliminate" her ability to cast spells - take all her magicka away.
trace("WISPS: move to combat phase 2")
; Take away her magicka (she'll regen) and shuffle her spell set
(selfRef as actor).damageActorValue("Magicka", -((selfref as actor).getActorValue("Magicka"))) 
(selfref as actor).removeSpell(Phase1ConcSpell)
(selfref as actor).addSpell(Phase2ConcSpell)
endif
endif
endEVENT
 
EVENT onUpdate()
; Check HP for Phase 3 Combat - Last ditch doppleganger attack!
if (selfRef as actor).getActorValuePercentage("health") >  phaseThreeHPpercent
; HP still high, so hold off.
;utility.wait(0.5)
RegisterforSingleUpdate(0.5)
else
; create my dopplegangers and unregister for update
int RemainingShades=(3-ShadeCount)
if RemainingShades>=2
Shade01 = (selfref as actor).placeAtMe(EncWispShade)
Shade02 = (selfref as actor).placeAtMe(EncWispShade)
Debug.Notification("2 shades spawned")
ShadeCount=ShadeCount+2
elseif RemainingShades == 1
Shade01 = (selfref as actor).placeAtMe(EncWispShade)
ShadeCount=ShadeCount+1
Debug.Notification("1 shade spawned")
endif
;Set AV06 to 1 as a flag for being in this state (used in Frostmere Crypt)
(selfref as actor).SetAV("Variable06", 1)
 
; Dump the orbs.
(orb01 as actor).kill()
(orb02 as actor).kill()
(orb03 as actor).kill()
; restore her longer-range spell
(selfref as actor).addSpell(Phase1ConcSpell)
endif
 
 
bool IsOrb01Dead=(orb01 as actor).IsDead()
bool IsOrb02Dead=(orb02 as actor).IsDead()
bool IsOrb03Dead=(orb03 as actor).IsDead()
 
if (IsOrb01Dead==true)
WispChildCount=WispChildCount-1
Debug.Notification("Wisp Child has died")
endif
if (IsOrb02Dead==true)
WispChildCount=WispChildCount-1
Debug.Notification("Wisp Child has died")
endif
if (IsOrb03Dead==true)
WispChildCount=WispChildCount-1
Debug.Notification("Wisp Child has died")
endif
 
bool IsShade01Dead=(Shade01 as actor).IsDead()
bool IsShade02Dead=(Shade02 as actor).IsDead()
 
 
if (IsShade01Dead==true)
ShadeCount=ShadeCount-1
Debug.Notification("Shade has died")
endif
if (IsShade02Dead==true)
ShadeCount=ShadeCount-1
Debug.Notification("Shade has died")
endif
 
 
bool CrownofPowerStatus=(selfRef as actor).IsEquipped(TGCrown01)
 
if (((WispChildCount >= 1)||(ShadeCount >= 1)) && (CrownofPowerStatus==false))
(selfRef as actor).AddItem(TGCrown01, 1, true)
(selfRef as actor).EquipItem(TGCrown01, true)
Debug.Notification("Diadem of the Wispmother Superior equipped")
elseif (((WispChildCount == 0)&&(ShadeCount == 0)) && (CrownofPowerStatus==true))
(selfRef as actor).UnequipItem(TGCrown01, true)
CrownofPowerStatus = false
Debug.Notification("Diadem of the Wispmother Superior unequipped")
endif
endEVENT
 
EVENT OnDying(Actor akKiller)
; Effects automatically finish onDeath so use this EVENT hook instead 
trace("Actor has died: "+selfref)
(selfRef as actor).SetCriticalStage((selfRef as actor).CritStage_DisintegrateStart)
WispFXAttachEffect.Stop(selfRef)
utility.wait(0.90)
selfRef.placeatme(ExplosionIllusionLight01)
(selfRef as actor).AttachAshPile(AshPileObject)
; pause a second before killing inheritors - I've seen massive damage skip over this
utility.wait(0.5)
(orb01 as actor).kill()
(orb02 as actor).kill()
(orb03 as actor).kill()
(Shade01 as actor).kill()
(Shade02 as actor).kill()
(selfRef as actor).SetCriticalStage((selfRef as actor).CritStage_DisintegrateEnd)
WispCount=0
ShadeCount=0
ENDEVENT
 
 
FUNCTION EVPall()
trace("Sending EVP to self and witchlight children ("+selfRef+")")
trace("Witchlights are the Following:")
trace("--------------------------------")
trace(orb01)
trace(orb02)
trace(orb03)
trace("--------------------------------")
(orb01 as actor).evaluatePackage()
(orb02 as actor).evaluatePackage()
(orb03 as actor).evaluatePackage()
endFUNCTION

 

 

Edited August 26, 2016 by irswat

[irswat]

random question: in c++ I can use iterators like X-=1 and X++, for x=x-1 and x=x+1 respectively. Does papyrus recognize these same iterators?

Edited August 26, 2016 by irswat