Funny Nude Spell

[MrSly]

I usually use a Disrobe Spell to mark which bodies I've searched. Then I know where I've been.

 

My sons were showing me how they like to go into a house and trash it with Weak Fireball spells (due to it's area of effect).

 

This combined in my (not so stable) mind into a spell that would have a person "explode" with their items! It would basically work like this:

 

- unequip all items

- drop all items

- area of efect spell to scatter their belongings

 

I'm picturing walking through town, target someone, cast the spell, have the person literally erupt in a spray of their items flying all over the place!! ;D

[BobSob2020]

- unequip all items

- drop all items

- area of efect spell to scatter their belongings

 

-Area of the effect within the people are affected by that spell (maybe even including the player :P )

 

I've been thinking the same thing (I'd just hope that it could be possible to edit these at the altars too, but I presume that is bit too complex).

 

Also, since this spell would be rather effective in combat too (completely disarming the enemy), it would only be fair if (at least to attain this spell) one should expose oneself to the spell (cool goblin staffs are always welcome :P ).

 

I could come up with a story (that means only 'play'-script and reference tough, since I am not skilled to mod) regarding (or including) this mod, IF there is any interest of anyone modding this within a story. (magnitude of the story MAY be determined by the amount of interested modders/modellers/etc.)

[MrSly]

I was thinking that the area of effect would be small, just enough to toss their stuff about a room.

 

Yes, this spell COULD be used in battle, but that's not at all what I had in mind. Although, it would be fun to use it on some guards...

 

I'd be willing to help with the story as well. I've been known to spin a yarn or two. Of course the story would have to be something crazy and fun, like the spell.

 

Every time I think about this spell, I can't help picturing people "exploding". Brings a smile to my face every time!

[BobSob2020]

Every time I think about this spell, I can't help picturing people "exploding". Brings a smile to my face every time!

 

I'm not sure (since I am not a modder... at least yet) how easy would it be to "push" the items dropped bit farther away (making it look cooler), but I presume that someone could be able to script NPC:s to "drop" their belongings as the player can drop them by going to inventory and clicking everything with sift pressed down (for modders: could this action be copied to NPC:s?). I believe that this would be moderately easier to do, but would still look as exploding at least with enough stuff to drop (yeah, by bro did decide to "explode" that way in a shop when he noticed that all the clay-bowls and stuff, that came with a house, where worthless, and I have to admit, dropping that much stuff looks rather cool).

 

Not that my babbling seems to change the world very much :P

[MrSly]

That's why I was thinking about having some kind of area effect spell to do the exploding portion, just like the weak fireball. Although, we wouldn't want to SEE the spell (fire/frost/whatever), just have the effect to scatter their belongings.

[BobSob2020]

I agree, but since the default of dropping is that one drops the item primarily in direction of the character, secondary bit left (or right), etc. until there is no more room in the direct existence next to the player, when the cycle starts again bit farther away until it comes the full circle etc.

 

What you would basically want to be done is to logⁿ the items in the inventory of the NPC, delete them from the inventory, and finally randomly spawn the items in area or radius (and clear the logⁿ).

 

If I'd be a modder I'd probably know which was easier, but I believe that since there already is an existing command line for dropping items, it would be easier to use. And as I think of it, it would not be possible to start from the other and evolve (regress) to another, since creating these two options are in quite different manner.

 

Unless of course the lines of action, that the player performs, could be copied from the player made action, and edited the manner of dropping the items (i.e. changing the positioning of the items to random), however, since the limitation for possible items to be dropped from the inventory is more or less relevant to the capacity of what the player may carry, I wonder if the radius of dropping items is limited (causing the placing of NPC-dropped-items to be unrealistically random).

 

Okay... anyone, tell me if the last part made any sense to anyone... :)

[MrSly]

Ok, I've made a spell that unequips everything from the target. So far, so good, Nude People. Now I need to know how to loop through all of the items in the target's inventory so I can DROP them. I know I've seen it before somewhere, but can't remember where. It looped through the inventory, got the ID's, then the number of each item, then issued a "DROP ID Number" command.

 

Oh, and I don't want to have to use the OBSE for this. Trying to make it vanilla compatible.

 

Thanks for any help...

[BobSob2020]

Ok, I've made a spell that unequips everything from the target. So far, so good, Nude People. Now I need to know how to loop through all of the items in the target's inventory so I can DROP them. I know I've seen it before somewhere, but can't remember where. It looped through the inventory, got the ID's, then the number of each item, then issued a "DROP ID Number" command.

 

Oh, and I don't want to have to use the OBSE for this. Trying to make it vanilla compatible.

 

Thanks for any help...

 

I am not completely sure how the mechanics work, but I think the game itself logs the inventories of the entities. Wouldn't that be possible to read the inventory ID of the NPC, and loop the contents of it.

 

However, I never imagined that this could be done without OBSE since I can't remember any vanilla NPC ever to drop anything, so I am assuming that the dropping command is only written for the player in the vanilla. However if there is such NPC action in the original game, you can use that for reference. As for looping the command on the inventory, could it be possible to use the same principle as you use for unequipping the NPC:s? The other option is to not to drop them, but to spawn the items, and then deleting the inventory. Somehow the looping trough the inventory seems so elementary basic to do, yet I can't get my finger on how to do it (I wonder if you could solve this problem by regressing temporary to newbie modder and rethink it therefore from different view. How do you initially loop any list? If there is one, or more, items in the inventory, read the ID of the first item in the inventory and drop it, then recheck the amount of the items in the inventory, since you already may unequip the apparel you have to know how to read the inventory, no? Although, this might also confuse you even more if you don't catch my drift on here... and besides I only know the theory of coding).

 

However, I just figured that this might have interesting effects on some NPC:s (for example daedra), that have their organs in their inventories. Would this spell kill them, or just ignore the organs (and maybe the quest items too, since otherwise it would become too easy to make some quests).

[QQuix]

Walking the inventory requires OBSE> see the WIKI page Walking Through Inventory Items

 

The Drop function is vanilla, but it needs the ID of the Base Object> “xNPC.Drop Apple 1”

 

And it places all droped objects at the same spot ahead of the NPC, a little above the ground. (check this

where an NPC drops 1000 item several different ways).

 

You would need additional, non trivial OBSE scripting to position the objects according to your goals .

 

There are some scripts that you may use as example and/or adapt in my Mod: QQuix Test Environment - Bloat V1_1

[BobSob2020]

Walking the inventory requires OBSE> see the WIKI page Walking Through Inventory Items

 

The Drop function is vanilla, but it needs the ID of the Base Object> “xNPC.Drop Apple 1”

 

And it places all droped objects at the same spot ahead of the NPC, a little above the ground. (check this

where an NPC drops 1000 item several different ways).

 

You would need additional, non trivial OBSE scripting to position the objects according to your goals .

 

There are some scripts that you may use as example and/or adapt in my Mod: QQuix Test Environment - Bloat V1_1

 

I've just spent 9 minutes and 2 seconds watching an NPC dropping various items, I I don't feel... I feel... a... feeling, I suppose... is that normal? o_O

 

Anyhows, that leaves to the assumption that this mod will not be possible with pure vanilla (add chocolate in the blend). So, could it be possible to just spawn the items around the NPC and clear it's inventory of the items just spawned? This would bring up the possibility to use i.e. "ThespinningDaedricTrapThingieThatExplodesAndSeemsToNotHaveARecordOnAboutFor

heReferenceOfName" (the oblivion plane mines that activates when you pass them too closely) as a physics for the items replacing the shrapnels with the inventory (It'd look rather cool I think :P) if that is possible by any mean.