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Yeah I've been trying to see skyrim scripts and learn from them but I can't exactly find how Bethesda gets their water to boil from a fire spell. It is not a mod, its actually there by default and in fact if you open up the creation kit and got to Special Effects, AddOnNod and search for boil you can find the effect. But you can also try it in game. Certain waters will in fact boil from a fire spell, I just don't know how that works. I also found out about this two days ago. Pretty neat.

Anyway to make it have the proper collision? Any substitutes? How do they get fire spells to make the water boil? Wouldn't that be on hit?

As in all the water objects that are listed under the World Objects > Activators > Water section. Can you not add scripts to those Activators that would work for other Activators such as the WETempActivator?

EDIT: Ok So I got it to strike me once, when I hit one time but the sound of it hitting me is stuck on. Then when I hit it again, nothing happens. It only hits me once when I hit it once for the first time. So I added a messagebox on the OnHit and OnUpdate to see what was going on. I get "Hit!" when I hit it and take damage and then I get "Update!" for Even OnUpdate but then it just gets suck on "Hit!" over and over even without me hitting it. I just don't understand why OnHit would get stuck? Here is my code. I figured a large portion of the code was useless for what I was trying to do and so I commented it out. EDIT AGAIN. It seems to be because the spell I am filtering via the if loop and the spell I"m having it cast is the same is causing it to constantly go through the if loop as true over and over again. Once I changed the spell for the object to cast to lets say thunderbolt, it began working as I had expected it too. I'd cast sparks on it and it would launch a thunderbolt. I'm still confused as to why this is so. Or maybe its because Sparks is a spell that can always be casted? I'll have to try with fire to see. So with flames as the spell for the object to cast I can see that it constantly spouts flames out but I can hit around the object and have it change the direction it spits the falmes, its actually pretty neat! But still not what I'm looking for. I need it to do the same with sparks and I need it to do it for like a short while, might have to make a new spell... Final EDIT: So I resorted to making a new spell, it works but doesn't look like I want it. Trying to apply the same script to a body of water and it won't work ? Not sure why yet. any thoughts on this?

Ok I got it working. I remembered I had another mod that altered its script and I deleted that, then I assigned values to all the random variables and x y and z offsets and its working. Not what I had in mind cause I thought I would see the spell go from it to me but instead it just zaps me, still neat! Thanks for the help!

Float Property SeekRange = 1000.0 Its set to 1000 though? As for the RegisterForSingleUpdate, it's Float Property PulseRate = 1.0 so RegisterForSingleUpdate(PulseRate) is RegisterForSingleUpdate(1) right?

Oh please mention all things. Because from what I understood is that the example script should pretty much function as is. But I had tried putting values for the offsets with no results but not for the randomFloat which I thought would give a random number. Also the points below the example say that if I want it to focus the player to leave TargetTypeList to default and it would default to the player if SpawnNode was set to false which it is. If you want it to look for targets nearby, set SpawnNode to false and put a formlist of the valid targets in the TargetTypeList. If no Formlist is given, it will default to trying to shoot the player. I'll try putting a value for the randomFloats

Thanks for the response. I have done chapters 1-3 on the CK wiki. I'll take a look at yours but to follow through with more information here is my script (which is essentially a copy and paste from the wiki) along with the properties I have modified as best as could follow from what the wiki itself says to do. This is what I have. Scriptname HelloWorld extends ObjectReference import Utility Actor Property PlayerREF Auto Float Property xOffset Auto ; Relative X position for the target Float Property yOffset Auto ; Y Offset for Target Float Property zOffset Auto ; Z offset for Target Float Property RandomOffsetX Auto ; Randomness applied to X Offset. Initializes at 0. Float Property RandomOffsetY Auto ;Randomness applied to Y Offset. Initializes at 0. Float Property RandomOffsetZ Auto ; Randomness applied to Z Offset. Initializes at 0. Float Property PulseRate = 1.0 Auto ; How often do we shoot? Float Property RandomRate Auto ; Add random delay to pulse rate, capped at this value Activator Property TargetType Auto ; What type of object are we zapping if we're spawning a node? ObjectReference Property CurrentTarget Auto ; The actual target we're shooting at Bool Property SpawnNode Auto ; Do we spawn a target? If not, zap the nearest valid target. Initializes 'False' Spell Property Zap Auto ; What spell shall we use for the effect? FormList Property TargetTypeList Auto ; List of potential targets Float Property SeekRange = 1000.0 Auto ; The range it will "Lock into" a target if not making a node. Event OnInit() if CurrentTarget ;!= None elseIf SpawnNode float newXOffset = XOffSet + RandomFloat(-RandomOffsetX, RandomOffsetX) float newYOffset = YOffSet + RandomFloat(-RandomOffsetY, RandomOffsetY) float newZOffset = ZOffSet + RandomFloat(-RandomOffsetZ, RandomOffsetZ) CurrentTarget = PlaceAtme(TargetType) CurrentTarget.MoveTo(Self, newXOffSet, newYOffSet, newZOffSet) endif RegisterForSingleUpdate(PulseRate) EndEvent Event OnUpdate() ; find something nearby to shoot at if we're not making our own target. if !SpawnNode && !TargetTypeList && GetDistance(PlayerREF) < SeekRange ; No list given, Default to the player if he is in range. CurrentTarget = PlayerREF elseif TargetTypeList CurrentTarget = Game.FindClosestReferenceOfAnyTypeInListfromRef(TargetTypeList, Self, SeekRange) endif if CurrentTarget ; it's possible that there is no target Zap.Cast(Self,CurrentTarget) endif RegisterForSingleUpdate(PulseRate + RandomFloat(0.0, RandomRate)) EndEvent Here is a screenshot of my properties window for the script.

I'm trying to get the example script to work off the creation kit site. I've done/read a few tutorial and thought I'd understand how to make the example script work. However, after following the pointers under the example script given and changing/assigning properties as it states, the WETempActivator object will not strike me with the sparks spell I have assigned it. Here is the script I'm trying to follow. CK Site