BG1 coding question :), visual effects, items into chest: how? Options

[jastey]

Hi,
I have two questions to BG1 coding:
1. If I want to have a nice visual effect, e.g. one creature dissappears with a lot of glowing light.. whatever, how do I code that? (For BGII, I would use:

CODE

CreateVisualEffectObject("effect",Myself)

Is there something similar for BG1?)
2. I have problems to put an item into an existing container. I have the following code in the area.baf:

CODE

 
IF
   Global("C#ItemInTruhe","GLOBAL",0)
THEN
   RESPONSE #100
         SetGlobal("C#ItemInTruhe","GLOBAL",1)
         ActionOverride("Container1",CreateItem("ITEM",0,0,0))
END

which is the only way I see, but this puts the item in front of the container. How would the correct code have to be, to place the item inside?

Thanks!
PS: Answers as soon as possible, please...

[jastey]

Hi Baronius,
thanks for the fast reply!
Well, a spell I've never done before... Can I do it like an item via NI? How do I make a spell in BG1 with a nice visual effect but no real impact, where do I find the visual effects.. Does there exist a tutorial on that somewhere (or do you want to describe it briefly to me...)?...
With "disappear" I mean vanish: before, the creature is there - visual effect - creature gone (DestroySelf())

And talking about cutscenes: I tried to start one by calling the following code in a dialogue file:

CODE

DO ~
StartCutScene("mycutscene")
StartCutSceneMode()~ EXIT

and the script-file "mycutscene" would look like:

CODE

IF
   True()
THEN
   RESPONSE #100
       CutSceneId("creature1")
       SetGlobal("variable","GLOBAL",1)
       DestroySelf()
       CreateCreature("creature2",[300.250],0)
       EndCutSceneMode()
END

But I guess that's BGII code again, as the cutscene didn't work. It changed to cutscene mode all right, but after that nothing happened.
I also wanted to inlude something like

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ActionOverride("creature2",DisplayString(Myself,~text~))

But this gives me syntax error...