Decrease maximum HP

[Mindtwistah]

Is there a script to decrease the maximum HP of the PC with 5?

If it is, can someone write it down here?

[tk102]

Just what you'd expect:

void main() { 
 object oUnluckyChap=GetObjectByTag("sometag");
 SetMaxHitPoints(oUnluckyChap, 5); 
}

[Mindtwistah]

Two questions, is this for K1 and what should I write in sometag?

[Master Zionosis]

Two questions, is this for K1 and what should I write in sometag?

 

Yes the script will work for K1, most scripts do, only a few new functions introduced with K2 don't mwork in K2, and you replace "dometag" with the tag of the NPC

[stoffe]

Two questions, is this for K1 and what should I write in sometag?

 

If you want to reduce the max VP of the player character by 5 you can use GetFirstPC() instead of GetObjectByTag(), like:

 

void main() { 
   object oPC = GetFirstPC();
   SetMaxHitPoints(oPC, GetMaxHitPoints(oPC) - 5); 
}

[swfan28]

If you want to make it a temporary effect use the script:

void main()
{
    object oPC = GetFirstPC();
    int iHP = GetMaxHitPoints(oPC) - 5;
    int iDuration = "whateveryouwant";
    effect eTempHP = EffectTemporaryHitpoints(iHP);
    ApplyEffectToObject(DURATION_TYPE_TEMPORARY, eTempHP, oPC, iDuration);
}

[Mindtwistah]

Thank you all for the scripts.

[stoffe]

If you want to make it a temporary effect use the script:

void main()
{
    object oPC = GetFirstPC();
    int iHP = GetMaxHitPoints(oPC) - 5;
    int iDuration = "whateveryouwant";
    effect eTempHP = EffectTemporaryHitpoints(iHP);
    ApplyEffectToObject(DURATION_TYPE_TEMPORARY, eTempHP, oPC, iDuration);
}

 

This script would nearly double the hitpoints of the characters it is applied to though, not reduce it by 5, since you add a bonus of (MaxVP-5) to them for the duration of the effect.

 

(Also, duration needs to be a float value and not an integer.)

[swfan28]

Originally Posted by stoffe

This script would nearly double the hitpoints of the characters it is applied to though, not reduce it by 5, since you add a bonus of (MaxVP-5) to them for the duration of the effect.

 

(Also, duration needs to be a float value and not an integer.)

Umm okay. I thought that the EffectTemporaryHitpoints() would set the hitpoints to a specified value, not add a bonus. The effect can't be used to decrease hitpoints then because it won't accept negative integers.