Exploding npc/creatures

[DragonAir216]

I have very little scripting experience but would like to try and make a mod that something/someone (haven't decided yet) would explode after dying it seems simple but I would like some help getting a grasp on what I would have to do.

[BlahBlahDEEBlahBlah]

Don't really need a script, as on the npc/actor record there's a button to add Destructible Data (or something like that).

 

Really straightforward from there on that new screen after hitting the button, but you could reference any car that can be blown up if get stuck from there.

[MissingMeshTV]

The latest version of FROST has glowing ghouls explode giving a burst of rads when you kill them. You might take a look at that mod to see how they are set up. Fair warning: if you give that a try, be prepared to click through a ton of CK warnings when you open the .esp.

[DragonAir216]

Thanks for all the comments we may see exploding people yet

[werr92]

This is a very simple thing indeed. If you wanna go with body parts being exploded use Dismember() function. It has an option to not only it can rip off the heads, the legs and the arms but to make them literally explode in a bloody mess. Then there is another kind of "explosion". You can place the actual explosion such as grenade one at the feet of an NPC (with PlaceAtMe() function) while he is dying. Suit yourself here, but the nice idea would be to combine these two types of explosion, so that all of the limbs were blown away from the center of explosion. If you attach script to actor it looks something like this:

 

 

  Event OnDying(Actor akKiller)
    Self.Dismember("Head1", true, false, false)
    Self.Dismember("Torso", true, false, false)
    Self.Dismember("LeftArm1", false, false, false)
    Self.Dismember("RightArm1", true, false, false)
    Self.Dismember("LeftLeg1", true, false, false)
    Self.Dismember("RightLeg1", false, false, false)
   
    Utility.Wait(0.15)
    Self.PlaceAtMe(pFragExplosion)
  EndEvent