Weapon used to kill a monster.

[IceColdFish]

Anyone know how to get the id of the weapon, that the player used, to kill a monster from within the monsters OnKilledBy method??

[Lord_Greywolf]

i do not think the weapon used at the time he was killed is stored

but you can get the current weapon he is holding
just do a findon layer check for 1handed and 2 hand layers and if base weapon - then you have it

BUT if what i am thinking you really want is this:
if the critter was killed using a certain weapon
then either extra gold, items, etc etc would be in corpse
or something happens to weapon or owner

then you need to do the check in the onafterdeath (or was it ondeath) part of the critters script
(or put that overide in)
onbeforedeath might work also

[IceColdFish]

Yeah, I was thinking of doing it in the OnDeath method - but i found that the OnKilledBy method gives the mobile that killed, which i obviouslly need to change the item props.

Can you think of a way to get the 'killers' id from the OnDeath routine? Is there a particular reason you recommend using that method rather than the OnKilledBy.

Thanks btw, as what you suggested does work using what I have now.

[Lord_Greywolf]

onkilledby works also - just did not think of that one