Getting a Placeable to drop an item?

Dragonfolk2000

So I'm trying to make it so a tree will drop planks of wood when it is destroyed. However, you can only target a placeable if it is set to useable. I don't want the player to click on it and open up an inventory. So I have Has Inventory set to false. I have an existing 'loot drop system' in place that seems to work for placeables and creatures as long as they have an inventory. I've found a function that checks if an object is a placeable and another function that checks if a placeable has an inventory. My current loot system places objects into the inventory of the dying creature using CreateItemOnObject but this won't work if the object doesn't have an inventory.

I am trying to find a function that will give a placeable object an inventory. Does one exist? If not I'll probably make a separate loot thing that handles placeables without inventories. The existing loot system would be difficult to make adjustments to account for objects without inventories otherwise.

NeverwinterWights

So I'm trying to make it so a tree will drop planks of wood when it is destroyed

Something kinda like so?

//Placeable OnDeath drop stuff
void main()
{
location lLoc = GetLocation(OBJECT_SELF);
CreateObject(OBJECT_TYPE_ITEM, "res ref of item", lLoc);
}

Dragonfolk2000

NeverwinterWights wrote: »

So I'm trying to make it so a tree will drop planks of wood when it is destroyed

Something kinda like so?

//Placeable OnDeath drop stuff
void main()
{
location lLoc = GetLocation(OBJECT_SELF);
CreateObject(OBJECT_TYPE_ITEM, "res ref of item", lLoc);
}

That's what I ended up doing. But this method requires making extra scripts for the objects that don't normally have inventories.

meaglyn

One extra script maybe (really that could easily be avoided too). "res ref of item" cries out to just be a variable on the placeable...

sunxre

Just add onto your loot system. No need for 2 scripts....

switch(hasinventory(yourobject))
{
  case FALSE:
//stick createobject section here
    break;
  default:
//shove your original code here for objects with inventories.
    break;
}