Normal damage, but headshot always lethal?

[Sarteka]

I am currently messing around with creating weapons and I was thinking it would be really cool to have a sniper rifle that had normal damage but if it hits them in the head its an instant kill (to compensate it would have a 1 bullet clip).

 

Anyway, I was wondering if this is possible. I know the game has a way of registering a head shot (for a quest like you gotta shoot em in the head, but I don't know what the scripting function is)

 

I suppose that the script could just run "kill" on the creature/npc, but is there a way to multiply the damage of that individual shot?

 

Edit: I found the function for hit location, now i just need to figure out how to kill the npc if its a head shot.

 

http://geck.bethsoft.com/index.php/GetHitLocation

 

Ok then I know that i have to use the killactor function http://geck.bethsoft.com/index.php/KillActor which can also be set so that player did it.

 

Now the only real problem i have right now, is how do i select the npc that was hit by the bullet to be the target of the killactor function?

 

Tested this in game. Anyone want to take a crack at why this doesn't work or suggest a better way to do this?

 

Begin OnEquip

If GetHitLocation == 1 || GetHitLocation == 2 || GetHitLocation == 3

Player.GetCombatTarget

KillActor player, 1, 2

endif

end

[Zilod]

best thing prob will be to add the script to the weapon itself as an object effect

 

try something like this

 

scn SniperkillahScript

 

begin scripteffectstart

If GetHitLocation == 1 || GetHitLocation == 2 || GetHitLocation == 3

damageactorvalue health 10000

endif

end

 

create a base effect

SniperKillahEffect

 

and link it to SniperkillahScript, remember to flag on touch in the options

 

then create the object effect SniperKillah

select weapon from the drop down menu and add the SniperKillahEffect on the effect menu

 

open your sniper rifle and select SniperKillah in the object effect

[Sarteka]

"GetHitLocation won't work if used in a weapon's Object Effect, but will work if used in the weapon's Crit Effect. "

 

quote from the top link in my first post =o

 

I could try it anyhow though

 

side note that 3 was meant to be a 13 1 = head_1 2= head_2 13 = brain

 

I might try putting this as a crit effect rather than object effect

[Zilod]

uops true... well you can do that on crit and eventually put 100 crit chance on the sniper with a very low crit

 

if not you can try firing something from the object effect (a spell for example) and do the check with that one

 

another route can be to not use gethitlocation but to compare the health values of the head, before and after the hit, probably with a mix of getcombattarget and object effect it can be done but a lot depends when the object effect is fired