Arrow Stick

[tight patrol]

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/58299

[tight patrol]

Turns out I completely forgor about ignoring player and so ammo might spawn inside/behind you if crosshair points at you

[tight patrol]

1.1

Fixes

• Arrows no longer spawn inside the player

[uncut flare]

I needed this in vr so bad

[tight patrol]

on which openmw version VR fork is btw?

keeping up to date?

[uncut flare]

Did not test yet. I got 50.1 vr

[grand marlin]

This is glorious. Two questions though, do they stick(heh) around, or despawn after a while if not collected? And is there a chance of breaking on impact?

[royal atlas]

This is all coming in Physics Projectiles. But until that happens, we have Arrow Stick to ease the wait

[tight patrol]

No and no

[tight patrol]

hahaha
https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/58227

[wraith hearth]

Would putting light on an arrow turn it into essentially a glow stick that sticks in the wall?

[tight patrol]

Prooooobably?

[wraith hearth]

I suggested this in sneaks discussion

[tight patrol]

Arrow Stick has a placeArrow event, so Max should be able to do that, yeah

[tight patrol]

This depends only on arrow meshes, though

[wraith hearth]

Understandable

Fingers crossed

[tight patrol]

[tight patrol]

1.2

Features

• Added settings page
• Added chance for arrow not to stick
• Added option for arrows to despawn on being unloaded
• Added optional Impact Effects integration

[tight patrol]

Yes and yes now I guess

[grand marlin]

🧐

[07:34:09.559 E] Global[scripts/arrowstick/global.lua] onActivate failed. Lua error: [string "scripts/arrowstick/global.lua"]:97: attempt to index upvalue 'shotArrows' (a nil value)
[07:34:09.559 E] stack traceback:
[07:34:09.559 E] [string "scripts/arrowstick/global.lua"]:97: in function <[string "scripts/arrowstick/global.lua"]:96>

On cell change right after load

[tight patrol]

🧐

shit

[grand marlin]

assuming it was door's onactivate

exited the chapel in OE

[tight patrol]

nah, I'm just dumb

1.2.1

Fixes

• Fixed mod breaking on initialization

[royal atlas]

Actually pretty doable - all it needs is a bone attach point in each projectile mesh. We already have it done in my mod, so at least in theory attaching a light vfx should produce light. I'll test it some time later

[wraith hearth]

Yes please im trying to make either a dishonored 1 style prison break quest or thief 1/2 style missions

[late chasm]

Thank you for the latest update

This is so fantastic

[tight patrol]

Impact Effects integration was completely spontaneous

And easy to do with the foundation this mod provided

Elevated the atmosphere just to another level

[tight patrol]

Throwables storage

(I guess I need to rotat e ebony darts)

fun fact
enchanted throwables with AOE spells trigger enchants on contact, yet retain them when spawned in the world

This would probably need a setting, because it feels odd 🧐

[grand marlin]

Why would they disenchant? vanilla - yes, enchanted projectlies of any sort just get lost. But no other weapon loses its enchantment with use

Feels right to me, I'd say

[tight patrol]

Because visually (and practically) they cast their enchants regardless of hitting the actor

[grand marlin]

ah, that

[tight patrol]

Do they retain the enchant if they get stored on enemy hit?

I don't actually know

[grand marlin]

I don't remember. I think they do

[tight patrol]

it would kinda make sense, but still

[grand marlin]

Last time I play with throwables in any capacity was 2022

iirc special darts from tribunal definitely retained it, and I used those extensively

need to test

Huh. Can't get AoE enchant darts to get stored at all. Disregard

Reading the description for "area of effect arrows" plugin - they are supposed to "explode on impact", so probably not storing/sticking them at all is the best bet

[tight patrol]

Thought so

[royal atlas]

Yeah its annoying vanilla bug - the throwables are even rotated when throwing them… you need to flip its axis

Wont be anything new that its fixed in lua projectiles (shameless self promotion😅)

[royal atlas]

To rotate it during throwing you would need to edit its mesh

[tight patrol]

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/44763 we have a mod to fix that

and besides, they fly so fast and they are so small I don't even notice it :p

[royal atlas]

Forgot about this little one tbh😅

Although as far as I remember the its kinda buggy

Or rather not compatible in 100% with other stuff (animation - I remember seeing bug report on openMW tracker regarding this mod behavior)

[tight patrol]

nope, that's an issue on my side

[tight patrol]

likely due to this mod

1.3

Features

• Added vanilla parity settings
• Added option to enable sticking for projectiles with AOE enchantments
• Added option to enable underwater sticking

[tight patrol]

1.4

• Moved Impact Effects Integration settings into their own settings group
• Added water splashes (Impact Effects integration)
• Added a non-sticking material list (Impact Effects integration)
• Added script removing to despawning arrows. It may or may not positively impact your performance
• Fixed random and AOE enchant cheks not working correctly

[tight patrol]

1.4.1

• Fixed arrows crashing the mod if not shot at water (uh oh)

[late chasm]

Thank you for the update. I'm curious about the positive impact to peorfmance. I thought it was great already

[tight patrol]

I doubt it would be noticeable if any, tbh

because the script either way effectively does nothing after the arrow is removed

Maybe it would marginally lower the RAM or disc space usage, idk

[tight patrol]

1.4.2

• Fixed water detection for the second time

[tight patrol]

@livid ridge hey, quick question about your code. What was the idea behind spawning the arrow in temporary location first and moving it into proper position 0.1 sec later?

local function onItemActive(item)
    if xrot and xpos then
        async:newUnsavableSimulationTimer(0.1, function()
            item:teleport(item.cell.name, xpos, xrot)
            xrot = nil
        end)
    end
end


    ...
    local temppos = util.vector3(pos.x, pos.y, pos.z - 1000)
    local newArrow = world.createObject(id)
    newArrow:teleport(player.cell.name, temppos, rot)

    xrot = rot
    xpos = util.vector3(pos.x, pos.y, pos.z)
    ...

[livid ridge]

Probably so the player/local script can do a raycast

[tight patrol]

uh huh
I might be able to get rid of it, then

[tight patrol]

1.5

• Changed distance delay to affect not just impact effects, but arrow spawning too
• Added new event on successful arrow stick
• Renamed event for an attempt to place an arrow ("placeArrow" -> "ArrowStick_PlaceNewArrow")
• Removed some legacy code

[tight patrol]

1.6

• Added Impact Effects SFX
  • Requires Impact Effects 1.08 or newer to work
  • Older versions of Impact Effects still work, but they don't make SFX
• Added arrow scatter setting
• Changed "ArrowStick_ArrowPlaced" event behavior and data

[royal atlas]

What does arrow scatter do? You’ve intercepted the vanilla projectile to fly with recoil ?

[tight patrol]

It adds a miniscule yaw and pitch random offset. Just so arrows don't stick into each other if they are shot in one spot

No gameplay impact. I'm not touching that

[royal atlas]

Nice, makes sense 🙌

[merry light]

Hello! This is truly a great mod, so I’ve localized the parts that needed it. I hope you can include it in your next update! Thank you for creating such an amazing mod!