I want to make a potion that down-scales the player, which I know how to do, but I noticed the 1st person camera doesn't scale down with the player. Is there any way to fix this or do I need to get the player stuck in 3rd person mode? I'd prefer not to use third-party programs, if possible. I don't have a lot of time to learn how to use stuff.

As far as I know, the only way to adjust camera height is by using nifscope to adjust it in the base animation... the problem there is that the camera will always be at or near that height after you do it regardless of race or PC size.

Yeah, I've been reading up on it and that seems about right. That being the case, are there scripting commands to disable first person and switch to third?

I know that it is possible, and "DisablePlayerViewSwitch" is what's used in the chargen script, but I think you'd have to force them to be in 3rd person before you put that in place. I'm not sure about how to do that beyond using "PCForce3rdPerson".

Alright, now I'm trying to test, but my script doesn't start when I drink the potion. Does the "onpcequip" block not work for potions or what?

I think that there is an issue with onpcequip and potions, but I'm not sure about the particulars. Unless you have potion effects other than your scaling, you could just use a misc bottle renamed and scripted... Just script in the playsound for potions if you want that.

Genius! Let me go test that...

Okay, I'm getting an "EXPRESSION" and "right eval" error now. Can't seem to find the problem in the script.

begin shrinkingpotionscriptshort playershrunkshort dooncefloat timerif ( onPCequip == 1 )	set playershrunk to 1endifif ( playershrunk == 1 )	if ( doonce == 0 )		player-> setscale 0.5		pcforce3rdperson		disableplayerviewswitch		set timer to timer + getsecondspassed		set doonce to 1	endifendifif ( timer >= 30 )	player-> setscale 1	enableplayerviewswitch	set timer to 0	set playershrunk to 0        set doonce to 0endifend

Any ideas on what the problem is now?

OnPCEquip has to be declared as a short variable. Just as a tip, "right eval" is almost always an undeclared variable or something similar.

Oh, and you might want to set OnPCEquip back to 0 at some point, even though it's a local.

Oh, you need to set that as a variable? That would explain a LOT.

Thanks for the help!