A question or two.

Hi,

I was asked a question by a friend recently which left me kinda blank in how to response; really don't know how to do what he wanted. So, I got the brilliant idea to ask here, hoping someone might know the answer.

How does one make a NPC appear dead in an area; as in, spawn in dead on the ground and stays that way - permanently?

(I know the creature in question likely need the "Leaves lootable corpse" checked in properties, but after that I'm kind of blank. )

On the (custom) spawn in script have a bit that goes along the lines of;
EffectDamage(OBJECT_SELF, GetMaxHitpoints(OBJECT_SELF) );

Basically an auto-kill line.. with the flag "leaves lootable corpse" set ..... although it's been aaaggggeeesss since I last done any NWN scripting so my syntax and actual commands may be slightly wrong... and this might not even work....

Alternatively use a placeable corpse ? There are hundreds of "dead things" in the battlefield sections ?... set the dead placeable corpse to have an inventory and voila a dead corpse chest.... ...

Could try manually setting the Creatures HP to -1... that might work too...


Just throwing out ideas, but my guess is you'll need something like option A .....

Good Luck

There may be some overkill in here but this has worked for me placed in the creature's onSpawn event hander.

Code:

SetIsDestroyable(FALSE,FALSE,FALSE);
effect eDamage = EffectDamage(GetCurrentHitPoints(OBJECT_SELF)+10,DAMAGE_TYPE_MAGICAL);
effect eDeath = EffectDeath();
ApplyEffectToObject(DURATION_TYPE_INSTANT,eDamage,OBJECT_SELF);
ApplyEffectToObject(DURATION_TYPE_INSTANT,eDeath,OBJECT_SELF);


Oh, I see. So I hadn't aimed that far from the target in my initial try.

Thank you very much both of you for the quick response, very much appreciated!