what's the best way to measure how far an actor or object is from the road?
can we detect the difference between roads (e.g. those between cities) and paths (e.g. not as well used, through overgrown forest, leading to a cave)?

initially, i thought GetFirstRef 56 would do it.
(56 = Road in this page: http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/GetFirstRef)
but it didn't seem to work.

and while i'm at it, does anyone know the difference between Road (56) and PathGrid (52)?
it looks like these two would address the problem i have.
but because GetFirstRef 56 failed, i thought to ask here.

thanks, all.

I always thought roads were just textures painted onto the landscape. But I have seen ROAD records in plugins.

i'm curious what sort of reference is suppose to be returned by GetFirstRef...GetNextRef when looking for roads 56 (which is labelled road).
nothing was returned in my tests before my original post.

i'll try looking for path grids (52), later.

Indeed, the textures have no significance. My guess would be that it is looking for those objects which are created when the roads for a worldspace are generated from the blue nodes... However, since it is likely pathnodes we are talking about, if memory serves, these are not recorded in the normal way that refs are, so looking for your standard 8 digit reference number probably won't work.

In any case, I http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?s=&showtopic=1006522&view=findpost&p=14582652 to scruggsy.

ahhh...thanks vagrant0...probably why getFirstRef...getNextRef wasn't returning them.

thanks, shadeMe.

Bump just before the bitter end - I'd like to know the answer to this one

Nothing can be done at the moment. If I recall correctly, more decoding's required.

Thanks shadeMe