[LE] How To Make 1 Spell Do Multiple Things?

[peterh0lland]

Hi all, first let me just apologize for the terrible Topic Title, it's quite hard to describe what I want.

 

Anyway, I am trying to make a spell that allows me to make 2 Actors fight each other. The way I want my spell to operate is the first time I cast it on a target, it will store that actor in a property for later use. Then on the second cast, it will hit another Actor and make the first Actor Attack this one.

 

I have tried using a combination of If statements and Intergers to simulate "stages" (here is some code, so you know what I mean)

 

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Scriptname aasMassCombatInteruptScript extends activemagiceffect

Int Property stage Auto

Actor Property Actor1 Auto

Actor Property Actor2 Auto


Event OnEffectStart(Actor Target, Actor Caster)

if stage == 1

Actor2 = Target

Actor2.StartCombat(Actor1)
Actor1.StartCombat(Actor2)



EndIf

if stage == 0

Actor1 = Target
stage = 1

EndIf

EndEvent

 

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I was looking online, and some people where talking about "Custom Functions" no idea what that is, would it help?

 

Thanks in advance boyos,

 

Pete :smile:

Edited December 18, 2018 by peterh0lland

[HadToRegister]

This is what I'm seeing

 

 

[peterh0lland]

This is what I'm seeing

 

 

There mate, fixed it. Sorry bout that ;)

Edited December 18, 2018 by peterh0lland

[foamyesque]

Each instance of an active magic effect is separate, so, as you currently have it, you're only ever going to have a bunch of people in stage 0.

[peterh0lland]

Each instance of an active magic effect is separate, so, as you currently have it, you're only ever going to have a bunch of people in stage 0.

Yeah, I found that out during my testing. Is their anyway to get around that, and have a spell that does what I've said above?

 

Cheers Pete :)

[peterh0lland]

So I have finally figured out how to do this, I found it out just by purely messing around.

Bascially the way I did it was, by using a GlobalVarible I created to simulate the "stages" that I wanted

Using this method I have created the spell, that I was speaking about above. (but I'd rather not show that code, until its 100% finilized)

In the mean time, just incase you dont understand what I'm saying I whipped up a simple "teleport" spell. (Its not great by any means, but it does the job)

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Scriptname aasMassCombatInteruptScript extends activemagiceffect

GlobalVariable Property aaaTargetActive Auto

ObjectReference Property locationMarker Auto

Event OnEffectStart(Actor Target, Actor Caster)

If aaaTargetActive.GetValue() == 1

;This moves the caster to the 'locationMarker'

Caster.MoveTo(locationMarker)

Debug.Notification("Teleported to Saved Location...")

;This sets the GlobalVarible (aaatargetActive) back to 0 so the next time you cast the spell; it will save your current location

aaaTargetActive.SetValue(0)

else

;This Assigns 'Caster' as the Player (not needed, I was just testing)

Caster = Game.GetPlayer()

;This moves the marker to the player (saving their location)

locationMarker.MoveTo(Caster)

;This sets the GlobalVarible (aaatargetActive) to 1, so on the next cast the if statement above will run; allowing us to TP to our marker

aaaTargetActive.SetValue(1)

Debug.Notification("Location Saved...")

EndIf

EndEvent

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Edited December 21, 2018 by peterh0lland