Anyone know how this script might be written - Fire Weapon = Spawn Something

[SkyEmerald]

Hi there,

 

I was looking at the bloatfly syringe script and trying to figure out how I would change it to 100% spawn bloatfly on fire.

Anyone have any ideas? Any suggestions would be greatly appropriated! Many thanks. :) :)

 

Scriptname damageBloatflyLarvaPoisonSCRIPT extends ActiveMagicEffect

;the bloatfly we're spawning

OBJECTREFERENCE PROPERTY bloatfly AUTO

;the explosino to play when it comes out

EXPLOSION PROPERTY flyExplosion AUTO

ACTOR victim

EVENT OnEffectStart(Actor akTarget, Actor akCaster)

;save off the victim

victim = akTarget

ENDEVENT

EVENT OnDying(Actor akKiller)

;play the explosion, spawn the fly

victim.placeAtMe(flyExplosion)

victim.Dismember("Torso", TRUE, TRUE)

ENDEVENT

[kitcat81]

The script spawns a bloatfly OnDying. The effect lasts 30 seconds so if you kill the npc before the effect is worn off , it will spawn a bloatfly. I`m not sure what you want to achieve. If you want it to spawn a bloatfly as soon as you hit an npc with the syringe , you move the spawning part to the EffectStart :

 Scriptname damageBloatflyLarvaPoisonSCRIPT extends ActiveMagicEffect

EVENT OnEffectStart(Actor akTarget, Actor akCaster)
akTarget.placeAtMe(flyExplosion)
akTarget.Dismember("Torso", TRUE, TRUE)
ENDEVENT

Just don`t change the exsting script, better create your own effect with a new script.

Edited July 30, 2017 by kitcat81

[SkyEmerald]

The script spawns a bloatfly OnDying. The effect lasts 30 seconds so if you kill the npc before the effect is worn off , it will spawn a bloatfly. I`m not sure what you want to achieve. If you want it to spawn a bloatfly as soon as you hit an npc with the syringe , you move the spawning part to the EffectStart :

 Scriptname damageBloatflyLarvaPoisonSCRIPT extends ActiveMagicEffect

EVENT OnEffectStart(Actor akTarget, Actor akCaster)
akTarget.placeAtMe(flyExplosion)
akTarget.Dismember("Torso", TRUE, TRUE)
ENDEVENT

Just don`t change the exsting script, better create your own effect with a new script.

 

Heya, thanks for that :P I'll give it a go. I just wanted to spawn an animal when the gun is fired, was trying to use the bloatfly script as a base for that. xD

 

Scripts are like a foreign language to me at the moment.. Once again, thanks a lot! :)

[ethanv131313]

You could add a custom projectile with an explosion that will spawn the bloat fly, like how the synth relay grenades work, but this will spawn a bloat fly every time you hit something with the weapon, not just when you kill something.