Resetting Fall Damage Timer

[JulianSull]

My script is literally this:

scn aaaStygainResetFallDamageScript


begin OnTrigger


	ResetFallDamageTimer


end

I even put a message box saying 'Ello Then" which plays. I die every single time no matter how big or small the trigger box is. Any ideas as to why?

[WillieSea]

Since the trigger box is not falling, your script will have no effect on it.

Try this instead:

Player.ResetFallDamageTimer

[JulianSull]

haha wow...I feel really dumb. Thanks for the help. I guess I assumed that it just automatically effected the player's fall timer.

[WillieSea]

All I did was a 'find text' to see how the vanilla game used the command.

[AndalayBay]

Secrets revealed...

[WillieSea]

A 'Real' programmer never writes their own code from scratch. You always 'reuse' code when possible. That is how it works in the real world. (not in school)

[AndalayBay]

Well, that's how we'd like it to work in the real world, but my experience has been that's there's way too much ego in the IT industry for that to be a reality

And when it comes to Oblivion scripting, I always recommend that people do stuff the same way Beth did when possible. I still like to believe that they knew what they were doing and they had a reason for doing it that way!

... professional programmer/systems analyst consultant for over 20 yrs... Getting there with some of the java libraries though...

[WillieSea]

The other programmers have no say when you pull the code from the production libraries. You just grab and use. As for beth's coding standards, they did not have any. I find their code a mess and unstructured for the most part. But that may just be because I am a 'little bit' OCD. Or CDO as I like to put it, its like OCD but the letters are in the proper order.

...Professional programmer for 25 years. Both Mainframe and Client server... And I bought my first computer in 1982 and taught myself how to code.

[AndalayBay]

The other programmers have no say when you pull the code from the production libraries. You just grab and use. As for beth's coding standards, they did not have any. I find their code a mess and unstructured for the most part. But that may just be because I am a 'little bit' OCD. Or CDO as I like to put it, its like OCD but the letters are in the proper order.

...Professional programmer for 25 years. Both Mainframe and Client server... And I bought my first computer in 1982 and taught myself how to code.

Oh, no, I meant trying to get programmers to use somebody else's code! It's like pulling hen's teeth! Arghhh... "What do you mean it's going to take 3 months to write that? There's a library right here!" "Yeah, but I can't be bothered reading that. Besides the code is crap..." I was often hired to create code libraries for companies, but if the management support was weak (which it usually was), the libraries never got used. My point of view is a little different because I've always worked as a consultant, so I'd be pulled in when there was a mess already and would be expected to fix it!

Beth's code is suspect in many cases, but I find their process is usually ok. One of the main ones is how to convert an existing house so that it can be used by a mod. The safe was to do it is the same way Beth handles such cases, whereas I've joined teams where all they did was rename the existing house! And do a very good job of breaking the game in the process...

So basically, like you, I recommend having a look at Beth's code to see how they handled something and then look at improving it with better technique

Sounds like our backgrounds are quite similar