I need to port my mod to SE and since SKSE64 isn't out yet I'm trying to figure out how to detect when the character menu is closed. I have to run an itializing script that must run after the player has made his choices in the character screen. Any ideas?

Is this as in the Character Creation Screen?


If so, maybe you could get the Player's name, and wait until it's changed from "Prisoner" to something else?

Maybe use the OnGetUp event on the chopping block? It's a bit later, but probably early enough, as the player controls haven't been released yet.

Or maybe even a trigger around the chopping-block: parent it to something which gets disabled at the end of Helgen, and just check the one activating it is the Player.

Yes, it's at the Character Creation Screen, and too bad the above solutions won't work with LAL or similar mods. And I'm not sure I could get the Prisoner name either without SKSE since GetName() requires it.

Ah, so it does. I thought GetDisplayName() was vanilla...

Hmm, could you check for Helgen being 'cleared'? I'd assume LAL modifies Helgen to the Post-CharGen State; I know that's what I did in my Alternate Start you could check if something is enabled (like the ruined Inn), or if a suitable Quest Stage is set?

Hmm. Perhaps. That would be troublesome for those that do *not* use LAL until they've cleared Helgen though. Dang, who could have thought that life is so hard without SKSE, lol.

One last, inelegant solution: "Start Necklace" : an amulet the Player can Equip once they have their Inventory. You'd have the issue of people not equipping it and complaining, but it'd work with anything. I think you get Inventory Access as soon as Hadvar cuts your ropes, right, just after entering the Keep?

Oh. Yeah, that would work. An OnObjectEquipped event would do the trick. I'm going to call it the Mighty Amulet Of Immortality so users won't resist, lol.