Troubling Scripting

[alysiumX]

I came across this problem while working on a project, What i want to do is when a monster gets kill, it give the player a certain amount of armor. I tried to do a action special of 80 on the monster leading to script that said giveinventory("armor", 5); and it wont work, any ideas?

[Enjay]

Hmmm, I'm guessing that the monster is the activator of the script and is therefore the one getting the armour.

There may well be other/ better ways, but how about having a player activated script that simply checks for the presence of the crucial monster(s) and then when they are all dead gives the armour?

[Richard213]

Hmmm. ThingCount(Type,TID); would be the way i'd do it.

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#include "zcommon.acs"

script 1 open
{
 if (Thingcount(0,213) == 0)   // if the actor with TID 213 dies
  {
   GiveInventory("Armor",5);   // give player 5% armor
  }
Delay(1);
restart;
}

[Enjay]

I was thinking more like:

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script 1 (void)  
{
  while (Thingcount (0, 213) > 0)
  {
  delay (1);
  }
  GiveInventory("Armor",5);   	
}

Same nut, slightly different way to crack it.

[Richard213]

Yeah that works too

[TheDarkArchon]

Actually, neither work: Use "ArmorBonus" as the item and then it'll work.

[alysiumX]

Thanks alot guys, its working now.

[Enjay]

Use "ArmorBonus" as the item and then it'll work.

As I was typing my script, I had a feeling that had come up in a thread recently - ReX's healing pool thingy IIRC. Thanks for the correction.