Companion Health Display

[InsanitySorrow]

Companion Health Display

A little while ago myself and Joben were randomly chatting about companion mods, namely our own creations. I had a quick idea that I thought would be nice to have where when your crosshair is over the companion you'll see it's health in the HUD, well Joben had some interest too . After thinking about it I decided to have a go and see what I could conjour up and this is my result.

Notes:

Quest Script

Requires OBSE v18+

Script:

;===========================

;Name: Companion Health Script

;Version: 1.0

;Author: InsanitySorrow

;===========================


;===========================

;Scriptname

;===========================


Scriptname aaISCompHealthScript


;===========================

;Variables

;===========================


Ref Target							

Float fQuestDelayTime			


Int CurrentHealth	

Int BaseHealth


String_var Text


Short Initialize						


;===========================

;Script

;===========================


Begin GameMode

	If (GetGameLoaded)

		If (Initialize)

			let fQuestDelayTime := 0.005

			let Initialize := 1

		Endif

	Endif


	let Target := GetCrosshairRef


	If (Target == 0)

		Return

	Else

		If (Target.GetFactionRank PlayerFaction >= 0)

			let CurrentHealth := Target.GetAv Health

			let BaseHealth := Target.GetBaseAv Health

			let Text := "Health: " + $CurrentHealth + "/" + $BaseHealth


			SetMenuFloatValue "visible" 1005 2

			SetMenuFloatValue "hudinfo_dest\visible" 1005 2

			SetMenuStringValue "hudinfo_dest\string|%z", Text 1005 

		Endif

	Endif

End[/code]


The main idea a behind this is that it will work on companions, Now after some research I noticed that about 90% of companions I looked at were all apart of the [b]PlayerFaction[/b], so I thought this would be the best thing to check for, though you could see if the companion is following you, but that may not be so good with some enemy NPCs.


Now with a simple edit to this rather simple script you can change when the health shows up by altering this line:


[b]If (Target.GetFactionRank PlayerFaction >= 0)[/b]


What you could do here is make the script require a specific reference which would limit it to your own Companions, incase it you don't want it on all companions. Or you could alter it so it shows on everyone.


[color=#FFA500]Example:[/color]


[b]If (Target == YourCompRef)[/b]


This will make the script only run when the Reference in the player's crosshair is this.


[b]If (Target > 0)[/b]


This will make it work on any ref (NPC/Creature) in the Crosshair.

[grond]

What a fantastic script and idea. IS does it again!

[WillieSea]

Luckily, Fallout 3 already has this functionality against ALL NPC's and creatures.

[InsanitySorrow]

What a fantastic script and idea. IS does it again!

Thanks Grond

Luckily, Fallout 3 already has this functionality against ALL NPC's and creatures.

I'm guessing Beth realised it would be a helpful addition since it was present in MW (with one of the expanions) but missing from OB

[WillieSea]

Yeah, it makes sense to me for realisim purposes. Since there are no graphical cues as to how damaged something is, the health bar is a good idea.

[Zabre]

Sigh... Of course this needs OBSE.

To make a long story short, i tried making this with the vanilla scripts. I never thought of OBSE

Good job Sorrow!!