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Mithrandir666
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 Posted: Wednesday, 04 November 2009 09:33AM |
I've been trying to get a script to work that checks whether an NPC corpse has an item on it after it's been killed, but it doesn't seem to work.
I'm wondering if anyone knows whether a corpse cannot be checked for items for some reason?
This is the script:
If I put this on the heartbeat of the creature, the item check works fine, but when called from an ondeath script it fails. The creature's corpse is destroyed however, which implies that oTarget is correct.
Any thoughts appreciated 
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ChocoBlok
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Posted: Thursday, 05 November 2009 12:33AM |
Hi there,
I did some testing on this, by doing the following:
I attached the following script to the death event on several monsters, and tried killing a horde of them.
Since every time I got a "found", I decided to try something a little closer to your code:
And this worked fine for me, although I didn't try killing more than one monster at a time.
Hope it helps.
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Mithrandir666
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Posted: Friday, 06 November 2009 01:47PM |
Ok, that inspired me to have another look at this, and whereas previously our script was split into 2 scripts, having it as one script did help. However, have run into an issue (which is I believe related to my original issue).
In summary, what I'm looking for is a creature that has a heart in its inventory. When it dies, the script should check whether this heart is present and if it is then it spawns a new creature, and destroys the corpse. However, there needs to be a delay in checking for the heart, so the PCs have time to get it off the corpse.
So my issue is that this script:
.. works fine in that it does create a new creature. However, because the heart check is done instantly, but the creation not for 8 seconds, there's no time for the PC to get the heart, and hence a new creature is created every time.
But, this script:
... never creates a new creature. Putting some debug messages into there shows that oTarget is valid, but oHeart is not.
So, to me it looks like a lootable corpse can be queried directly in a script, but cannot if a subsequent script or function is called.
Perhaps passing a parameter into a function or script passes in a copy of the item, but in this case without any inventory?
Bit confused! Serves me right for thinking I was getting the hang of this!! 
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http://www.silver-spire.comEdited By Mithrandir666 on 11/06/09 13:51 | |
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Cereborn
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Posted: Friday, 06 November 2009 06:33PM |
In the onDeath script, you're not querying the lootable corpse (which hasn't been created yet) you're querying the creature, which at that point still has it's inventory. After the onDeath script, the lootable corpse is created (a body bag placeable, actually) and the creature's inventory is moved to the placeable (because you can't open a creature's inventory). You can find the placeable by using GetNearestObjectByTag (nearest the creature) - the tag will be "BodyBag" iirc (or maybe "Body Bag". Try both...)
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Mithrandir666
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Posted: Friday, 06 November 2009 08:18PM |
I was heading towards the lootable corpse being a different object, but I never would have got the BodyBag thing - so many thanks for that! It now works pretty much flawlessly!
For reference, here's the core bits of the script, placed in the onDeath of the creature:
This gives the PC 15-20 seconds to rip out the heart from the creature, else it "rises" again.
Many thanks for the help - much appreciated!
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