Restrict armor

[Legacy_Surek]

               

I have a question about armor.

Is there any way to restrict a certain armor type from being worn by the PC through scripting?

Example, restricting the PC from wearing any type of heavy armor. Any ideas on how to do this would be greatly appreciated.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Proleric]

               

The usual way to do this is in the module OnPlayerEquipItem event. For example, here is the CEP script which prevents wearing items if the custom gender restriction applies:

 

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void ZEPGenderRestrict(object oItem, object oPC)
{
// ---------------------------------------------------
    // CEP Gender restriction property script
    // Searches the item just equipped for a gender
    // restriction property.  If it finds it, it will
    // check the PC's gender against the appropriate value
    // and de-equip the item if they are found not to
    // match.
    // ---------------------------------------------------
    //First we check if this has the item property: Use Limitation: Gender.
    //If so, we enter the if statment and check PC gender
    //vs. the item's limitation.  Else we continue out of the
    //function.
    if (GetItemHasItemProperty(oItem,ITEM_PROPERTY_USE_LIMITATION_GENDER))
        {
        itemproperty ipGenderProperty=GetFirstItemProperty(oItem);
        //We're not sure if the above property is the one
        //we want, so we'll check it vs. the Gender property,
        //and, if it's not it, loop through until we find it.
        while ((GetIsItemPropertyValid(ipGenderProperty))&&(GetItemPropertyType(ipGenderProperty)!=ITEM_PROPERTY_USE_LIMITATION_GENDER))
            {
            ipGenderProperty=GetNextItemProperty(oItem);
            }
        //If, after all that, the property is invalid for
        //some reason, we return.  Else we now have a property
        //with the data of the Gender restriction of teh PC's
        //item.
        if (!GetIsItemPropertyValid(ipGenderProperty)) return;
        //Next line is kind of long and wonky looking, but bear
        //with me as I'm doing this to cut out variables.
        //We're comparing the item property parameter value (gender
        //type) vs. the PCs.  Theoretically they use the same
        //scale...
        //If they are not the same, we de-euip the item
        if (GetItemPropertySubType(ipGenderProperty)!=GetGender(oPC))
            {
            //Not equal, so take it off!
            AssignCommand(oPC,ActionUnequipItem(oItem));
            //Tell PC why.
            string sMessageToPC= GetStringByStrRef(nZEPGenderRestTXT,GENDER_MALE);
            SendMessageToPC(oPC,sMessageToPC);
            }
        }
}

 

In your example of heavy armour, you could check GetBaseItemType instead.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_meaglyn]

               

The armors will all have the same baseitem type so it gets a little more complicated. The type of the armor is based on the chest part's ACBONUS value, which in turn determines if it's light, medium or heavy.

   int nTorso = GetItemAppearance( oItem, ITEM_APPR_TYPE_ARMOR_MODEL, ITEM_APPR_ARMOR_MODEL_TORSO);
   // Read 2DA for base AC
   string sACBase = Get2DAString( "parts_chest","ACBONUS", nTorso);
   int nAC = StringToInt(sACBase);

Then use nAC to determine if you consider this heavy armor or not. I think the game uses >= 6 for heavy.  Of course you'll want to check the base item type is armor before using the above or won't mean much.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Proleric]

               

The armors will all have the same baseitem type so it gets a little more complicated....

lol I remembered that shortly after posting - thanks for the correction.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_meaglyn]

               

I thought you probably knew that '>  I was just giving a more complete soultion rather than trying to correct you.  

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Proleric]

               No worries - it's just that I was driving around all day thinking "actually what I said was bollox" so glad you put it straight.