Have you tried using SetMenuStringValue to change the name of the day displayed in the SleepWait menu?
I think you should be able to use that command to modify the text associated with sleep_background\game_info_1.

I do indeed modify the sleep menu (for other reasons), but I'm guessing it's also used in other locations within the game (if only in other mods). Unless it severely breaks something, I would much more prefer to just set the day using the SetDayOfWeek function and not have to worry about changing strings everywhere. It would also make it compatible with GetDayOfWeek and be a whole lot easier of course.

According to the manual, the LoadGame function requires a string? Meaning I would in turn need a commands to get the NAME of the current save game? I think that would be making things harder. I just need some solution. An event that occurs THE MOMENT any game begins, and never again until the NEXT time that happens.

The string is not required.
If you specify the name of a savegame, the event only trigger any time you load that savegame.
If you don't specify any argument, the event will trigger any time you load a savegame, no matter the name.

You can also use "GetGameLoaded" inside a gamemode block:
It return true only the first time it's called after a load/new game
Any next call will return false until you load a savegame (also the same savegame) or start a new game.

Begin GameMode	If (GetGameLoaded)		;DO WHATEVER YOU WANT: RUN ONCE AFTER A LOAD/NEW GAME	EndIfEnd

There is also "GetGameRestarted": it act similar to GetGameLoaded. It return true the first time it's called after you run Oblivion. Any next call will return false until you exit and run again Oblivion.

Huh? Wow really? So OBSE CAN DO IT!?

:twirl:

But, I am not sure what you mean by asking me about "get the game to load an animation from disk"
I need the function to work on vanilla animations as well as custom ones.

Like this:

if me.isattacking && CheckOnce == 0
set CheckOnce to 1
set Var to me.GetDurationOfCurrentAnamation
messageboxex"%N attack animation will run for %.2f seconds."Me Var
endif

hey am I doing this right?

;;;;;;;;;; Health check not including magic health buffs or drainslet tmpFloat := me.GetTotalAENonAbilityMagnitude FOHElet tmpfloat -= me.GetTotalAENonAbilityMagnitude DRHEset CurHealth to ( me.getav health - tmpfloat )if Helathlog > CurHealth   messagebox"health damage from physical attack"endif;;;;;;;;;; Health log not including magic health buffs or drainslet tmpFloat := me.GetTotalAENonAbilityMagnitude FOHElet tmpfloat -= me.GetTotalAENonAbilityMagnitude DRHEset healthlog to ( me.getav health - tmpfloat )

I want to check for health drop (from a fist/arrow/weapon attack) but not if the health drops because of a health buff timing out
nor from poison or other magic attacks.

If I want to include magic or poison attacks I only need to remove "let tmpfloat -= me.GetTotalAENonAbilityMagnitude DRHE" right?
I am not sure yet if I want to include the magic or poison attacks at this time.

Is it possible to get a SetBaseActorValue-function (or adding the "base"-modifier the AddActorValues-commands have to Get/Set/ModAVMod©)?
Or do we already have such a thing?
*don't want to use SetActorValue ( newValue + ( GetActorValue ) - ( GetBaseActorValue ) ) or sth. equal with GetAVMod*

I'm in the process of tracking down some mods I think have conflicts with OBSE 20. Is there something I can do to test them?

Is there any difference in behavior in the GetOBSEVersion for Steam versions of Oblivion?

No, not as far as I know. My detection script has always worked for the Steam version too. Now if the player forgets to check off the in-game community setting, GetOBSEVersion will fail, but I think that detection script I sent along should take care of that too.

Hi all,

I've looked through the documentation, and I haven't found a generic Get/SetWeaponPoison function. I'm not looking for Get/SetEquippedWeaponPoison function--I'd like to get the poison on an unequipped inventory reference, and set the poison on a temporary inventory reference. The deprecated function GetCurrentValue looks like it could get the poison for me, but a) I still have no way of setting it that I know of, and B) I'd rather avoid using deprecated functions.

If such functions don't exist, are there any known workaround? Preferably something that can be accomplished within a single frame? Thank you!


[Addendum]

While I'm at it, is there a way to apply poison to a target? I was just going to create a drinkable poison-potion and force feed it to my victim, but since I'm asking anyway, I figure I might as well see if anyone knows a better way.

Why have you deprecated MessageBoxEX? It has advantages over MessageBox.

Do you plan on removing it entirely from OBSE? I prefer to use it, but if it will be absent from future releases, I need to get more familiar with MessageBox (Which is inferior to MessageBoxEX).

No function will ever be removed from OBSE. As to why it is deprecated, pretty much all functionality from MessageBoxEx can be reproduced using string(_vars) and $. Not to mention the compiler override which removes the need for temp variables all together.

Glad to hear it won't be removed.

What is this compiler override you speak of?

http://obse.silverlock.org/obse_command_doc.html#Compiler_Override

Ah, interesting.

Question:

Can I use ModNthEffectItemDuration on a spell?

Can one format numbers without using one of the format specifier commands? That was always my issue with the choice to mark the old, format-specifier-using functions deprecated...

IIRC, use sv_Construct. Then again, sv_Construct is deprecated.

Does GetArmor Type return 1 if wearing ALL heavy armor, and 0 if wearing ALL light armor? Or does one need to specify each individual slot?

I've got a question for the "OBSE Gurus"

My mod Dynamic Leveled Lists can end up making a 10MB backup array if people have a lot of mods. I'm planning to cut down on that to reduce savetime, buut:

As of now, with my 10MB OBSE array setup, I experience what seem to be random freezeups.

They aren't associated with the DLL scripts running. There's only one that runs every 30 seconds, and it only does a few checks for stuff like if the game restarted, the player leveled up, etc. I also double checked and did some testing that proves the freezeups don't always align with when my script runs.

So, DLL seems to introduce freezeups of a few seconds even when there is no script running.

My hypothesis is this:
There is some other (OBSE?) process that might be doing "inventory" work on the OBSE data? If that's the case, then perhaps DLL is causing indirect freezeups as that process chokes on my 10MB array.

Is there any such OBSE process? Or anything similar that may be having issue with the fact that the OBSE portion of the save has 10MB of data? (other than the extended save/load times)

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Anyway, I wanted to give you guys the information and see if you had any clues as to what may be causing these freezeups that come at random intervals.

Thanks in advance! 8)

Where are the developers?

Does "GetEquippedObject" return if it's heavy or light armor, or just the equipment ID?

EDIT:

No, it returns the ObjectID.

I found a function that returns the slot type.

Hi!

When the game needs to play an animation, the animation may or may not be loaded in memory at that moment. If it isn't, the game has to load the animation from disk into memory before it can be played. Once an animation has been loaded into memory for the first time, it typically will remain in memory until for one reason or another the game needs to free up some memory for other things.
I guess a better question would have been: do you expect your scripts to be asking for information about an animation only when an actor is playing (or is about to play) that animation? For example, your script detects the player is performing an attack animation, and at that point you want to know the duration of the attack anim.
Or, do you want to be able to ask "what's the duration of attack_onehand.kf" whenever you want, regardless of whether or not it's currently in use by an actor?

I don't have the code in front of me right now - I need to go back and look at how the actor value modifiers work.

First step would be to specify what is causing you to think there's a conflict - what unexpected behavior are you seeing with the mod, and does it appear to go away if you downgrade to 0019 or an 0020 beta?

You're right - they'd be useful and pretty trivial to add though.

Drinkable potion ought to work, but I can look into providing a command to do it (or more generally to apply a set of active effects directly to an actor).

Yes. Maybe the docs could probably use some work to make that clearer (effect item commands work on any type of object with the Magic quality, which includes spells and enchantments, but finding out which objects fit that description is currently not very straightforward).

GetArmorType isn't used with an actor. It takes an armor object and returns the type. There are vanilla commands for getting the equipped armor type, or you can use GetEquippedObject in conjunction with GetArmorType to determine the type of armor an actor is wearing.

10MB sounds kind of extreme. Is this a single array containing plain data, or is it a big array containing lots of other arrays?
If you want to provide a link to the version of the mod exhibiting this problem I can take a look.

GetEquippedObject returns the formID of the item equipped in the specified slot. You can pass the returned item to GetArmorType to determine if it's light or heavy (or neither).

Excellent, scruggsy! That's what I did, but was confused a little by the documentation. It says it returns the ObjectID. But I guess the ObjectID includes if it is heavy or light armor as well.

Thanks.