This is a CS function. Does anyone know if it can track an ability that is affecting the target?

From the wiki:

Technically, an ability is a spell and is under spells. So the above description is a bit broad.

IsSpellTarget checks active effects. Abilities (and diseases) go in the actor's regular spell list, you'll find them with HasSpell.

Thank you. I was hoping not to have to use HasSpell because it is OBSE. I feel like I am twisting the user's arm.

Go ahead and try IsSpellTarget. I think it would work for Abilities, because by definition, an Ability is something that is always active on the Actor who has it.

I've used Player.IsSpellTarget in a script more than once to check if the Player has an Ability. And other Actors as well.

Alright. Two different messages here from different posters, but you have added testimony. In fact, I will quest script AbGhostNPC onto my player, or some other way, and use IsSpellTarget to see for myself.

Edit:
It's confirmed.


First I saw my hands turn ghostly. Then a message from Sneaking Detection Recalibrated. On second later came the message and sound effect. Confirmed, and now I know that other scripts can butt in. Return was supposed to delay for one frame, not 4 seconds later.

By default, a quest script runs once every five seconds. Looking at your script, it looks like it would take 10 seconds to play the ayleid well sound after the quest initiates. But you can change the delay for each script execution by setting fQuestDelayTime.

Declare "Float fQuestDelayTime" before the GameMode block. Then within the GameMode block, set it like so: "Set fQuestDelayTime to 0.01"

This will make the quest script execute every hundredth of a second. And if your frame rate isn't 100 frames/second, then it should execute once per frame.