LE Cast a spell at a target's direction?

[leron9999]

Hello all! I posted this in the mod talk, but this forum thread seemed more appropriate. I was hoping I'd get more answers from here.

 

I'm trying to make a new spell that sort of manually does a chain spell, but only affects hostile characters. Here's what I have so far:

Scriptname CastOnHostileScript extends activemagiceffect  

SPELL Property aaMagicToCast Auto
Actor Property aaPlayer Auto

Event OnEffectStart(Actor akTarget, Actor akCaster)
       aaPlayer = Game.GetPlayer() as Actor

       while(akTarget != aaPlayer)
               if(akTarget.IsHostileToActor(aaPlayer))
                  ; cast magic to the target
               endif
       endwhile
EndEvent

 

The script is attached to a cloak type magic effect and is supposed to "tag" an actor as a target if he/she/it is hostile to the player, and if so, the caster will cast magic at the tagged actor. I've gotten everything down except for the actual casting of the spell. I'm aware of the <spell>.cast(akSource, akTarget) function, unfortunately akTarget seems to only apply to "target" delivery spells and most offensive magic are "aimed". So is there a way to get the caster to cast an aimed spell at the intended target? Any help would be much appreciated.

[Astymma]

Have you considered just rotating the caster to point at the target and simply using "cast" leaving akTarget empty?

Probably miss a moving target and you'd have to add rudimentary target prediction.

And yes, this wouldn't be a trivial solution, I'd keep looking for something less demanding.

[leron9999]

I was actually considering that solution, just that I wasn't very familiar with the translateto function (that's what you were suggesting right?). I wasn't sure if it was possible to just rotate the caster instead of totally moving him towards the target.

[Astymma]

Can use SetAngle (method of class ObjectReference which is the parent of class Actor).

 

Also see this article on local rotation.

Edited September 18, 2012 by Astymma

[leron9999]

Thanks! I'll try it out as soon as I get the chance!

[leron9999]

@Astymma:

I just wanted to let you know that the setAngle link you gave me pointed me in the right direction. Thanks a lot!

[Astymma]

@Astymma:

I just wanted to let you know that the setAngle link you gave me pointed me in the right direction. Thanks a lot!

 

Ahh, cool... glad to be of help.