Activate on furniture

[claptovaughn]

I'm trying to make a script that causes a spell to be cast on the player once they get up from a particular chair. I've decided to start slow so for now I'm just trying to make it give a debug message upon getting up from the chair. Here is what I've written so far:
 

Scriptname ChairMessage extends ObjectReference

{Test Script}

Event OnGetUp(ObjectReference akFurniture)
Debug.MessageBox("Good Bye")
endEvent

When I test it...it does nothing. What am I missing? 

[WillieSea]

I have not used this, but here is what I understand from the wiki:

 

What is the script attached to?

Its an actor script, which means you would have to place it on the player for it to work on the player. And 'akFurniture' would be populated with the furniture item the player just got up from. That means, it would fire off when the player gets up from any furniture. You would have to check for your furniture item.

 

I usually steer clear from this sort of thing, preferring the 'onActivate' event instead, and just cast the spell on them when they sit, instead of get up.

[claptovaughn]

The script is attached to a chair. I want the player to receive a spell (or in this case, simply get a message) from that one chair only. 

 

Yeah, I figured using onactivate on the chair would be simpler, but for purely aesthetic reasons I wanted the spell to hit only once they get up. I'll go back to onactivate, then.

 

Another question, can I cast calm on myself with a cloak effect? So it essentially calms every hostile around me within a certain radius? I'm just curious if the game even allows this at all, because I don't recall ever seeing a calm spell with an area-of-effect. Or can furniture cast calm in a radius?

Edited April 19, 2013 by claptovaughn

[WillieSea]

Calm? never used it either.

I usually want to fight!

 

Again, I would take a look at the calm spell, and the magic effect attached to it. Then look at other magic effects that use the AOE effects, and apply your calm magic effect the same way.

[claptovaughn]

In the meantime, I'm still trying to figure out how to cast a spell from activating an object.

 

In this next test, I'm just trying to get the chair to paralyze me upon activating (sitting on) it. 

 

 

 

Scriptname paralyze extends ObjectReference
{Test Script}

Spell property PARALYZE Auto

EVENT OnActivate(ObjectReference akActionRef)
; Cast a spell on player
paralyze.Cast(Self, akActionRef)

endEvent

 

 

I'm using paralyze simply because I found this script on another board and couldn't find any examples of the spells I actually wanted to use. It doesn't work for me however. 

[claptovaughn]

How would I go about making it so "fortify stamina" is cast on the player upon sitting on a chair? I've tried the above script with various forms of fortify stamina I've seen in the CK, but none of them do anything. 

[WillieSea]

try this:

 

paralyze.Cast(akActionRef, akActionRef)

 

I don't think 'self' works.

 

Same with the stamina.
 

[claptovaughn]

I get this error message when I try to compile:

 

 

Starting 1 compile threads for 1 files...
Compiling "Paralyze"...
F:\Games\Skyrim Modding\Data\Scripts\Source\temp\Paralyze.psc(3,16): cannot name a variable or property the same as a known type or script
F:\Games\Skyrim Modding\Data\Scripts\Source\temp\Paralyze.psc(7,9): Cast is not a function or does not exist
F:\Games\Skyrim Modding\Data\Scripts\Source\temp\Paralyze.psc(7,9): cannot call the member function Cast alone or on a type, must call it on a variable
No output generated for Paralyze, compilation failed.

Batch compile of 1 files finished. 0 succeeded, 1 failed.
Failed on Paralyze

This is the script I wrote:

 

 

Scriptname Paralyze extends ObjectReference

Spell property PARALYZE Auto

EVENT OnActivate(ObjectReference akActionRef)
; Cast a spell on player
paralyze.Cast(akActionRef, akActionRef)

endEvent

Edited April 21, 2013 by claptovaughn

[WillieSea]

You can't call the script 'Paralyze' and also use a spell name of 'paralyze' in the same script.

[claptovaughn]

I get the same errors even when I rename the Script to something else. Also, are the other errors indicating that the cast command does not work at all in this situation?

[WillieSea]

You cannot 'rename' a script. You have to create a new script if your going to change the script name. And delete the old one.

 

Your getting cast errors because it cannot use the spell name of 'paralyze' because of the previous error.

Edited April 22, 2013 by WillieSea