Getting an Activator to move...

[Mysterious Mr. Bear]

Basicly, the desired effect that I want is to have the player cast a spell, and a boulder to appear above his head and fire at the target. I am attempting this by placing the rolling rock trap, which is an activator, above the players head, then setting the trap off as usual, thinking it would have some kind of ... BOOST to it, to push it forwards. but no... it has the (amusing) effect of plopping down on the players head.

So, does anyone know of a way to get the activator to move without prompt? I think it's possible as I've seen it used a couple of times in Midas Magic, but he might be doing something tottttaly differnt. Any ideas anyone?

Thanks in advance

Mysterious Mr. Bear :D

Edited August 29, 2011 by Mysterious Mr. Bear

[Lanceor]

Hmmmm... I'm not sure if it's possible to give the rock a certain amount of momentum causing it to fly at the target in a scientifically-accurate parabolic arc. But something fairly close could be doable. From the top of my head:

• Changing one of the default magic effects to have a rock mesh as the projectile, and firing it like a ranged spell (probably the easiest, but may conflict with other mods).
  
• A static rock that is moved using a bunch of SetPos commands (may be processor intensive).
  
• Make an arrow that looks like a rock mesh and summon an invisible NPC to shoot one arrow! (NPC's rarely behave as expected.)
  

[Citrus]

I'd go with Lanceor's first suggestion. Plus, we all know the laws of Physics in oblivion are different than the ones on our planet, so... Not to mention that if the rock were to be thrown at a high speed (for maximum damage on impact), a parabolic trajectory can be negligible if the target's close enough.

[Mysterious Mr. Bear]

hmm, I may just have to use OBME after all in my mod... gives lots of new magic effect slots!

Good ideas guys... I may pick apart midas magic first though, but I did want to figure it out without doing so because it feels like stealing.

[HeyYou]

Have a look at some of the new script commands from OBSE as well. Things like changing gravity vectors...... might do what you want.

[Mysterious Mr. Bear]

I'll have a check, HeyYou, thanks