Destroy on death...

[Macil]

I'm trying to script my own ranger warrior thingy. Which will spawn a random peice of ranger armor upon death. But while you fight it, it wears a full set of ranger armor. How do I make it so what he's wearing disappears when you kill it (the ranger armor), so that only one peice of random ranger armor is left on the corpse after it's dead. Instead of the full suit. - hope that makes sense.

[Quantos]

Post the script, using the [code] tags, and any errors that it generates.

Make sure to highlight what you have tried to do to get the armor to not drop.

[Macil]

Well, I modified the Brigand script so it worked for my ranger guy instead. Everything works like I want it to, I get no errors. My question though is how do I make the armor that the monster is wearing disappears after he dies, so that you only get one random peice of ranger armor instead of the full set off the corpse. Here is the script.

using System;
using System.Collections;
using Server.Items;
using Server.ContextMenus;
using Server.Misc;
using Server.Network;

namespace Server.Mobiles
{
	public class ForestRanger : BaseCreature
	{
		public override bool ClickTitle{ get{ return false; } }

		[Constructable]
		public ForestRanger() : base( AIType.AI_Melee, FightMode.Closest, 10, 1, 0.2, 0.4 )
		{
			SpeechHue = Utility.RandomDyedHue();
			Title = "Forest Ranger";
			Hue = Utility.RandomSkinHue();

			if ( this.Female = Utility.RandomBool() )
			{
				Body = 0x191;
				Name = NameList.RandomName( "female" );
				AddItem( new Skirt( Utility.RandomNeutralHue() ) );
			}
			else
			{
				Body = 0x190;
				Name = NameList.RandomName( "male" );
				AddItem( new ShortPants( Utility.RandomNeutralHue() ) );
			}

			SetStr( 86, 100 );
			SetDex( 81, 95 );
			SetInt( 61, 75 );

			SetDamage( 10, 23 );

			SetSkill( SkillName.Archery, 85.0, 97.5 );
			SetSkill( SkillName.Macing, 65.0, 87.5 );
			SetSkill( SkillName.MagicResist, 25.0, 47.5 );
			SetSkill( SkillName.Swords, 65.0, 87.5 );
			SetSkill( SkillName.Tactics, 75.0, 90.5 );
			SetSkill( SkillName.Wrestling, 15.0, 37.5 );

			Fame = 1000;
			Karma = -1000;

			AddItem( new Boots( Utility.RandomNeutralHue() ) );
			AddItem( new RangerArms());
			AddItem( new RangerChest());
			AddItem( new RangerGloves());
			AddItem( new RangerGorget());
			AddItem( new RangerLegs());

			switch ( Utility.Random( 2 ))
			{
				case 0: AddItem( new CompositeBow() ); break;
				case 1: AddItem( new Bow() ); break;
			}

			AddItem( Server.Items.Hair.GetRandomHair( Female ) );
		}

		public override void GenerateLoot()
		{
			PackGold( 150, 225 );
		}

		public override bool AlwaysMurderer{ get{ return true; } }

		public ForestRanger( Serial serial ) : base( serial )
		{
		}

		public override void Serialize( GenericWriter writer )
		{
			base.Serialize( writer );

			writer.Write( (int) 0 ); // version
		}

		public override void Deserialize( GenericReader reader )
		{
			base.Deserialize( reader );

			int version = reader.ReadInt();
		}
	}
}

[Nochte]

make random pieces newbie'd.

[Macil]

I'm not experienced enough to write code on my own, so I take from other scripts and add modify scripts. So, after some searching I found a newbie loot thingy on a dummy sword dude.

I applied the code to my script using ranger armor instead of normal leather in the dummysword script. And it worked fine for the arms, but when I applied the code to all the peices of armor, I get these errors on start up.

RunUO - [www.runuo.com] Version 1.0.0, Build 36918
Scripts: Compiling C# scripts...failed (4 errors, 0 warnings)
- Error: Scripts\Mobiles\Monsters\Humanoid\Melee\ForestRang er.cs: CS0128: (line
54, column 16) A local variable named 'glv' is already defined in this scope
- Error: Scripts\Mobiles\Monsters\Humanoid\Melee\ForestRang er.cs: CS0128: (line
57, column 17) A local variable named 'glv' is already defined in this scope
- Error: Scripts\Mobiles\Monsters\Humanoid\Melee\ForestRang er.cs: CS0128: (line
60, column 17) A local variable named 'glv' is already defined in this scope
- Error: Scripts\Mobiles\Monsters\Humanoid\Melee\ForestRang er.cs: CS0128: (line
63, column 15) A local variable named 'glv' is already defined in this scope
Scripts: One or more scripts failed to compile or no script files were found.
- Press return to exit, or R to try again.

This is the section of script I believe it is referring to.

			AddItem( new Boots( Utility.RandomNeutralHue() ) );
			RangerArms glv = new RangerArms();
			glv.LootType = LootType.Newbied;
			AddItem(glv);
			RangerChest glv = new RangerChest();
			glv.LootType = LootType.Newbied;
			AddItem(glv);
			RangerGloves glv = new RangerGloves();
			glv.LootType = LootType.Newbied;
			AddItem(glv);
			RangerGorget glv = new RangerGorget();
			glv.LootType = LootType.Newbied;
			AddItem(glv);
			RangerLegs glv = new RangerLegs();
			glv.LootType = LootType.Newbied;
			AddItem(glv);

[ArteGordon]

RangerArms glv = new RangerArms(); <--------- declared here
			glv.LootType = LootType.Newbied;
			AddItem(glv);
			RangerChest glv = new RangerChest(); <---- and here

you cant declare the same variable more than once within the same scope, where "declaring" means assigning a type to a variable with the specified name.
You want something like this instead

RangerArms glv = new RangerArms();  <------ declare once
			glv.LootType = LootType.Newbied;
			AddItem(glv);
			glv = new RangerChest();  <-- then just reassign after that

[Macil]

			RangerArms glv = new RangerArms();
			glv.LootType = LootType.Newbied;
			AddItem(glv);
			glv = new RangerChest();
			glv = new RangerGloves();
			glv = new RangerGorget();
			glv = new RangerLegs();

Like that? I get a few errors from that.

RunUO - [www.runuo.com] Version 1.0.0, Build 36918
Scripts: Compiling C# scripts...failed (4 errors, 0 warnings)
- Error: Scripts\Mobiles\Monsters\Humanoid\Melee\ForestRang er.cs: CS0029: (line
55, column 10) Cannot implicitly convert type 'Server.Items.RangerChest' to 'Se
rver.Items.RangerArms'
- Error: Scripts\Mobiles\Monsters\Humanoid\Melee\ForestRang er.cs: CS0029: (line
56, column 10) Cannot implicitly convert type 'Server.Items.RangerGloves' to 'S
erver.Items.RangerArms'
- Error: Scripts\Mobiles\Monsters\Humanoid\Melee\ForestRang er.cs: CS0029: (line
57, column 10) Cannot implicitly convert type 'Server.Items.RangerGorget' to 'S
erver.Items.RangerArms'
- Error: Scripts\Mobiles\Monsters\Humanoid\Melee\ForestRang er.cs: CS0029: (line
58, column 10) Cannot implicitly convert type 'Server.Items.RangerLegs' to 'Ser
ver.Items.RangerArms'
Scripts: One or more scripts failed to compile or no script files were found.
- Press return to exit, or R to try again.

[ArteGordon]

your other items are not of the RangerArms type. Since you arent accessing any properties or methods that are specific to the RangerArms type, and your RangerArms and all of the other things you are adding are derived from the Item class, just declare the glv variable as an Item and then it can be used to refer to all of your other items as well.

Item glv = new RangerArms();
			glv.LootType = LootType.Newbied;
			AddItem(glv);

[Macil]

I'm not sure I understand, where/how do I include the rest of the peices, what would it look like?

[ArteGordon]

AddItem( new Boots( Utility.RandomNeutralHue() ) );
			Item glv = new RangerArms();
			glv.LootType = LootType.Newbied;
			AddItem(glv);
			glv = new RangerChest();
			glv.LootType = LootType.Newbied;
			AddItem(glv);
			glv = new RangerGloves();
			glv.LootType = LootType.Newbied;
			AddItem(glv);
			glv = new RangerGorget();
			glv.LootType = LootType.Newbied;
			AddItem(glv);
			glv = new RangerLegs();
			glv.LootType = LootType.Newbied;
			AddItem(glv);

you could also just declare a new variable for each piece and give them all different names, like

AddItem( new Boots( Utility.RandomNeutralHue() ) );
			RangerArms glv = new RangerArms();
			glv.LootType = LootType.Newbied;
			AddItem(glv);
			RangerChest glchest = new RangerChest();
			glchest.LootType = LootType.Newbied;
			AddItem(glchest);

			etc.

[Macil]

I tried the second code you put down already and got some errors. Let me try the first one.

[Macil]

Ahhh, that worked. I think I see what I did wrong too, and what you were trying to tell me. With puting item instead of ranger arms, right? Er, I think.

[ArteGordon]

yep

[Macil]

Well, thanks a ton Arte. Have a good one. I shall be enjoying my script. =)