PlayMagicShaderVisuals Question

[Crimsonfoxy]

If I want to apply a continuous effect to an actor, in my case, a custom Bighorner, do I only need to call it once without a duration parameter or constantly?

 

Eg.

 

begin GameMode
pms GlowingOneFXShader
end

 

OR

 

begin GameMode
if ( doOnce == 0 )
pms GlowingOneFXShader
set doOnce to 1
endif
end

 

It does work without the doOnce but I can't tell if it's reapplying it constantly and wasting resources. Anyone got any experience with this?

 

http://geck.bethsoft.com/index.php/PlayMagicShaderVisuals

[Jeux]

How about giving the creature the actor effect GlowingOneGlowSpell? Not sure if this is the right approach, just a suggestion.

[Crimsonfoxy]

I did try it before but I had another go and it still didn't work...until I tried to shoot it then it activated the glow. Now if I can get that without it being in battle (especially seeing as this one shouldn't be affected by gunfire). Edited November 29, 2011 by Crimsonfoxy

[Jeux]

You might have added it to the unarmed effect drop list for the creature. you gotta do it under the "Actor Effect" list.

 

Check out the GlowingOne creature and script.

[Crimsonfoxy]

Nope, got it setup exactly like that. Only thing I don't have is the GlowingOne script which just covers it's death.

[Jeux]

scn GlowingOneGlowSpellScript

Begin ScriptEffectStart
pms GlowingOneFXShader
End

[Crimsonfoxy]

Yeah I've seen that, though I don't know how ScriptEffectStart is called (Which seems to be trigged by combat), which leads me back to my original post, if I'm doing it through the GameMode block, does it need to be constant or just done once.

[Jeux]

This is just strange. All I can say at this point is to just mimic what you see for the Glowing One creatures....ones that have that spell as an actor effect. There's got to be something that you're doing wrong.

[dree74]

ScriptEffectStart block is for effect script only.

 

 

 

begin GameMode
pms GlowingOneFXShader
end

 

that might crash the game because you are calling pms function every frame.

 

begin GameMode
if ( doOnce == 0 )
pms GlowingOneFXShader
set doOnce to 1
endif
end

 

 

this is much better approach than the one above, potential problem with this is that when you load the save file, it will have GlowingOneFXShader off but doOnce is set to 1, so it won't apply the effect any more.

 

Begin OnLoad
pms GlowingOneFXShader
End

 

Try this one. This will apply the shader once when the npc is loaded.

 

From my experience with GlowingOneFXShader, this needs to be called only once, and the shader effect stays with the NPC.

Edited November 29, 2011 by dree74

[Crimsonfoxy]

 

Begin OnLoad
pms GlowingOneFXShader
End

 

Try this one. This will apply the shader once when the npc is loaded.

 

From my experience with GlowingOneFXShader, this needs to be called only once, and the shader effect stays with the NPC.

This works perfectly, exactly what I'm looking for. Still probably think the actor effect is a better method but as I can't figure out what's going wrong this works just as well. =) Cheers guys.