I was a Computer Science major in undergrad ('05) before going straight to law school and have been a practicing attorney ever since, so I am a bit rusty/dated on some of my programming and scripting knowledge. That being said, I have a few questions that may actually have pretty obvious answers, so please bear with me.

I noticed on the wiki that there is an event "OnPlayerBowShot" that is only called if the weapon is a bow. I found the event within the Actor script, but I cannot seem to understand why it only works with a bow. Is there another script or gamesetting that is defining "Weapon akWeapon" to only be a bow?

The reason I am asking is I want to create an event that will be called if the player attacks with a 1H weapon. Is this possible? Can I simply make a copy of "OnPlayerBowShot", call it "OnPlayer1HAttack", place it within the Actor script, and define it that the weapon must be a dagger, mace, sword, or waraxe?

Thanks in advance for any help on this.

One does not simply such an event. You'll need something like SKSE for that

Are you saying that I cannot make new events or alter current ones without SKSE?

You can create as many events as you like, but you cannot create new native events without something like SKSE. Native events are ones, like http://www.creationkit.com/OnPlayerBowShot_-_Actor, which are called directly by the game engine. Any events you create can only be called from Papyrus.

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So is it possible in any way to achieve what I am trying to do, ie. make the game run a script whenever the player attacks with a 1H weapon, without using SKSE? Could I possibly alter OnPlayerBowShot to check for different types of weapons?

No, you cannot create a new native event without creating something like SKSE. Your best bet is to look for some way to detect this with existing Papyrus functionality.

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