Playing with aliases, ForceRefTo, and OnDeath

[jimhsu]

Trying something non serious, but wacky fun. But here's the setup:

 

1. A single actor in the world is initialized with, say, a disease (with a ReferenceAlias script).

2. SetAV aggression 3 and hilarity ensues.

3. OnDeath of that actor, infect the killer of that actor with the disease (with say some probability).

4. SetAV aggression 3 and hilarity ensues, again.

5. OnDeath of the second actor .. so on and so forth. Eventually the whole of skyrim goes insane (probably) unless I intervene.

 

The problem I am having with the script in the Reference Alias panel is that while I get the alias handoffs just fine (with ForceRefTo), I can't get the alias script to run on the 2nd actor (so OnDeath doesn't work on step 5). Is this at all possible or should I use a different approach? Bear in mind that the killer can be ANY actor, so obviously having OnDeath scripts for every actor in the game is not practical.

[jimhsu]

Could this work if I wrapped the entire thing up as an ActiveMagicEffect? I still need to get OnDeath somehow though.

[pauderek]

The OnDeath() event can be used in magic effect, it will detect the actor that has that magic effect. For what you are trying to do I think it's the best way.

 

If the magic effect is dispelled on death I recommend you to use the OnDying() event instead.

Edited July 9, 2012 by pauderek

[jimhsu]

Oh, I neglected to read the final line from the Creation Kit wiki:

 

"ActiveMagicEffects will also receive events from the Actor they are attached to. "

 

Interesting. Will try this out.

Edited July 9, 2012 by jimhsu