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...

[Rabain]

You want a messenger to appear at a particular stage and walk up to the party to initiate dialogue?

As BG1 has a large number of wilderness area's I would just concentrate on putting the relevant script code in the major towns: Nashkell, Beregost, Friendly Arm, Ulgoths Beard, the Sorcerous Sundries area of BG city (everyone visits here regularly) and the Flaming Fist HQ map of BG city (you have to visit here for a lot of the main plot quests).

Thats six additions from only one file, just write the code in a baf and use the EXTEND to extend the six areas above (6 lines in the tp2).

Also to me it would make more sense that a messenger would wait for you in a town rather than wander into the wilderness in the hope of finding you to give you a message.

On the other hand it might be possible to use the script of an NPC to create a person using ActionOverride with CreateCreature and use -10.-10 to specify location (i think you can do this, it creates the creature at your co-cordinates -10)