Take the DarkDoomZ flashlight with ACS?

[Enjay]

When working on a map that has a section which plunges the player into darkness at a particular point, I noticed that using TakeInventory in ACS to take away the DarkDoomZ flashlight (version 1.9b I think) left it active (with no way to switch it off) if the player had the flashlight switched on when the script took it. i.e. there was still a dynamic light attached to the player after the inventory item had gone.

Is there any way to take this item away from the player and have its effects (i.e. the beam of light) deactivated at the same time?

I'd prefer to do it from the ACS side, but I'm happy to add something to the ZScript if that can address it.

[Jarewill]

I don't know if ACS can find the flashlight spotlight actors and remove them, but if you don't mind altering ZScript code, you can add this to the flashlight item:

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    override void DetachFromOwner() {
        if(SelfLight1) { SelfLight1.Destroy(); }
        if(SelfLight2) { SelfLight2.Destroy(); }
        super.DetachFromOwner();
    }

The flashlight item is called DarkDoomZ_Flashlight, so you will need to put that snippet somewhere inside the class definition.
For example, this was put at the very end, after ToggleActive function definition:

[Enjay]

Thank you kindly. Nice clear instructions and it does the job perfectly.