Summon Companion Script

[King Aaron]

Hi, I'm new to modding and have very little knowledge about scripting, but I want to make a "pet" creature and a spell that summons him permanently until I cast the spell again. I already have my creature, and the FollowPlayer AI, I just need some help with the script. I know that this is possible, because it's pretty much just going to be a spell version of the summoning altar in Frostcrag Spire. Any help would be very much appreciated and I will give credit to whoever helps me when I release the mod, if I decide to release it. Thanks for reading!

-KA

[InsanitySorrow]

A small script like this should do what you need:

Scriptname aaISSummonScript


Ref Creature

Ref HoldingCell


;Global State


Begin ScriptEffectStart

	Set Creature to YourCreatureReference

	Set HoldingCell to YourStorageCell

End


Begin ScriptEffectUpdate

	If (State == 0)

		Creature.MoveTo Player 64 0 0

		Creature.Enable

		Creature.AddScriptPackage YourAIPackage

		Set State to 1

	Elseif (State == 1)

		Creature.PositionCell 0 0 0 0 HoldingCell

		Creature.Disable

		Set State to 0

	Endif

End[/code]


You'll need to create a global variable called State to track the state of the summon I.E to summon to player or send away. You can also customize this tio play shader effects ect.

[King Aaron]

I copied down everything in that script, with the exception of renaming Creature to aaaKAPet and HoldingCell to aaaKAPetHoldingCell and it didn't work. Does the script have to be exactly as you wrote it or is there just something weird going on?

-KA

Edited June 19, 2010 by King Aaron

[Kyubimark]

I tried the same script to and it did not work. Though Im not completely sure what to replace here kinda confused on the Set Creature to YourCreatureReference set HoldingCell to YourStorageCell part.

[InsanitySorrow]

That's only a rough script, untested at that, but it should work

What you do is this:

For this line Set Creature to YourCreatureReference, replace the YourCreatureReference with your creatures persitant reference.

And for this line Set HoldingCell to YourStorageCell, replace YourStorageCell with your storage cell name.

[Kyubimark]

Ive did that but it said there was an error with the creature Ref on line 9. I dont really need the script I was just testing it for practice. I would just like to know how it works.

[InsanitySorrow]

It all compiled perfectly on my end, I made sure of that before posting.

[Kyubimark]

Eh I dont know whats wrong thing everything okay on my end as far as the references

[King Aaron]

I'm having a lot of trouble with this little project, now my creature is messed up! I dropped him into a shop in the Imperial City to see if he was just invisible or something, and every time I did my game crashed. I took a look at him in the Construction Set and a bunch of errors popped up, and where he should be was that nice little exclamation-point-on-a-piece-of-cheese. I know that means there is a mesh missing, and I checked and saw that all the meshes were in their correct place. I'm going to try my new script with a random monster and see if it works, then move on to fixing my monster.

[WillieSea]

I would recommend looking at my horse summoning script in the mod Ancient Towers.

I have a horse with a simple script that does just what you want. You cast the spell, and the horse appears before you. You cast it again, and it goes to the 'home' position.

It only requires one global variable, and an XMarker at the home location with a reference ID on it.

If you look at my scirpt, you will see its a bit bigger because I also play a sound, play a magic shader on the horse, and also use the alpha to fade the horse in or out, depending on if I am calling or sending it back.

The script is: AncientSpellHorseScript

Its attached to the spell: AncientSummonWarhorseSpell as a 'script effect'.

You get the spell by reading the book: AncientBookSummonWarhorse

[King Aaron]

Ok, I couldn't fix my monster, but I finally got the summoning script to work, so I've decided just to use a vanilla/SI monster. Now, one more script question...would it be possible to script him to ignore 3 friendly hits, attack enemies on sight, and ignore all of my hits?

[WillieSea]

'Scripting' that would be problematic.

Mostly because even if you tell the NPC to stopCombat, they sometimes start it up again a few seconds later.

Some commands that might help in your quest:

GetFriendHit

SetIgnoreFriendlyHits

StopCombat

StopCombatAlarmOnActor