Marking a corpse for delete after an item is taken

[Giveth]

I've just got my toes in the water as far as modding FNV and I've made some improvements to mods that I use (just changing damage and DT values, or very minor scripting)

What I want to do is modify the robots from the greasemonkey perk in MorePerks to drop a "Salvageable [Robot_Name] Parts" item when they die, so that the player can then reconstruct the robot. I want the corpse to vanish after taking that item, however. And I'm almost positive that there's something in the base game that does that but I can't remember where.

I also assume that I'll have to make 2 different salvaged parts for each robot, one being a dummy item that is removed from the player when they pick it up, and another that is given- so that the script doesn't just delete whatever box you put the salvaged parts in later.

Any help would be appreciated.

Okay so I think I might have a lead, using the Violet's head script since it activates on taking her head and affects the corpse.

scn HeadVioletScript

begin OnAdd player

; explode Violet's head

FiendVioletRef.KillActor player 1

if GetStageDone VMS12 5

if GetObjectiveDisplayed VMS12 10

SetObjectiveCompleted VMS12 10 1

endif

SetObjectiveDisplayed VMS12 40 1

endif

end

So the begin onadd player part I understand, so this script would be run when the player accepts the item, but then "explode violets head" I don't understand, maybe just something explaining what the code does?

So instead of FiendVioletRef.killactor would it be GreasemonkeyGutsyRef.markfordelete ?

edit: Ah, now I see, so I'll have to somehow get reference data for something that doesn't exist yet. Looking through the wiki to try and wrap my head around that

Edited March 28, 2021 by layerkayk