SSE Quick question about script on alias

[Fantafaust]

So basically I have a short quest I'm working on, where you retrieve an item from an enemy you have to kill. Everything is going well so far, but when I kill the enemy and the objective changes to retrieve the item taking it from the enemy inventory does nothing

 

I have tried a container change script on the item itself, and on the alias I've used for the item in the quest. No dice

 

So should I place the item in the world (don't want to) or would an alias for the player with a script that watches for the item entering the player inventory work?

[agerweb]

I have never had a problem with this and it is fairly common in retrieval quests. I normally put the container change script directly on the item (not it's Alias you can do but it may not always have one and I like to maintain consistency) to set the next stage. You can have two objectives one for killing and then one for retrieval but I don't normally bother and it allows a player to pick pocket the item if they are that sort of player.

 

If you have done this and it's not working you have something not right somewhere.

[Fantafaust]

I'm at work right now, but as I recall the script went like this:

 

 

 

Quest property myquest auto

Int property StageToSet auto

 

Event oncontainerchange(Objectreference newcontainer, objectreference oldcontainer)

If newcontainer == game.getplayer()

Myquest.setstage(stagetoset)

Endif

Endevent

 

 

Then I fill in the properties of course.

There may be minor typos, but would that be the gist of a working script?

 

The enemy is an ambush scripted leveled draugr, so no pickpocketing lol

[agerweb]

Well spelling and brackets are important so worth checking and int is not a property:

 

Quest property myquest auto
Int StageToSet

Event oncontainerchanged(Objectreference newcontainer, objectreference oldcontainer)

If (newcontainer == game.getplayer())
Myquest.setstage(stagetoset)
Endif

Endevent

[Fantafaust]

That looks closer to what I can remember. I'll compare it when I get home, but it did compile fine when I saved it.

 

Thanks for your help so far :)

[Fantafaust]

Update: turns out, there was nothing wrong with my scripting. For some reason however, I can't get multiple scripts to run on a single item. So I just combined the scripts.

Thanks again for your help agerweb