About the stagger thing: Include a check if the target has it's weapon drawn! There are instances where actors don't go into the weapon drawn mode for whatever reasons, and if they're then "playgroup stagger"ed, they're frozen. This also includes the player (spell reflect, etc).

You can use something like this instead:

scn myscriptnameref meBegin ScriptEffectStartset me to getselfif me.isweaponout == 1playgroup stagger 1elseme.pushactoraway me -5endifEnd

If there is, no one has ever found it I'm afraid . Morrowind had these kind of special variables, but Oblivion as far as I'm aware not.

Where do you set the visible name of an exterior cell? For example, a door connecting an interior to the Anvil worldspace will say "Door to Anvil" and not "Door to The Gold Coast". Some cells in the Tamriel worldspace seem to also have their own names, such as Weye. I'm sure the answer will be obvious in retrospect. :facepalm:

Please & thank you!

The name is set by the region the cell belongs to.

(Regions have priorities, e.g. Anvil has a higher priority than Gold Coast, so the cell is named Anvil instead of Gold Coast, despite belonging to both regions.)

Okay, I'm very new to modding, so if this is a stupid question, well, now you know why. Anyway, when I'm in the construction set and I go to the magic tab in the object window, the only spells I seem to be able to access are the Default Player Spell and The Default Marksman Paralyze Spell. How do I access the others?

Also, when I go in to the race maker...thing I only have the Vampire Race in the race list.

You need to open Oblivion.esm first.

Take This Toturial
http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Category:A_beginner%27s_guide

I've got a strange problem: I built a script which uses a timer to place several objects in front of the player at different times. Strangely the second object, a copy of "SEFlamesOfAgnonCrown" does not show up if I activate the script on top of a bridge, namely the bridge from IC Market district to the prison. The other objects work okay, although the placement code is almost the same. If I call the script on plain ground or on the little dock at the prison sewer exit then everything works okay as well.

The part in question is the middle one, concerning StygianSummoningFireCircleRef. I didn't include the code to calculate posx, posy and posz. This part I took from a script on the Wiki originally written by Wrye.

	set timer to timer + getsecondspassed	if timer >= 6 && summoningstage == 0			StygianSummonCircle.moveTo player 			set pos to player.getPos x + posx			StygianSummonCircle.setPos x pos				set pos to player.getPos y + posy			StygianSummonCircle.setPos y pos			set pos to player.getPos z + posz 			StygianSummonCircle.setPos z pos  			StygianSummonCircle.setAngle x 90			StygianSummonCircle.setAngle y 0			StygianSummonCircle.setAngle z 0	;--Done			StygianSummonCircle.enable		set summoningstage to 1	endif	if timer >= 8 && summoningstage == 1		playsound AMBFlameAgnon		StygianSummonFireCircleRef.moveTo player 		set pos to player.getPos x + posx		StygianSummonFireCircleRef.setPos x pos			set pos to player.getPos y + posy		StygianSummonFireCircleRef.setPos y pos		set pos to player.getPos z + posz + 10		StygianSummonFireCircleRef.setPos z pos 		set ang to player.getAngle z + 45   		StygianSummonFireCircleRef.setAngle z ang;--Done		StygianSummonFireCircleRef.enable		set summoningstage to 2		endif	if timer >= 12 && summoningstage == 2   	 	StygianSummonFireColumnRef.moveTo player 			set pos to player.getPos x + posx		StygianSummonFireColumnRef.setPos x pos				set pos to player.getPos y + posy			StygianSummonFireColumnRef.setPos y pos			set pos to player.getPos z + posz + 50			StygianSummonFireColumnRef.setPos z pos   	;--Done   		 StygianSummonFireColumnRef.enable		set summoningstage to 3	endif

edit: it's not just the bridge, the StygianSummonFireCircleRef seems to randomly disappear even though the other parts work fine. Is there an issue with moveto not working properly if there's already a static near that position?

Well, I'm a newb, but my guess is that if you are not setting the position relative to the PC, and you are on a bridge, is it appearing under the bridge, or perhaps quite a ways down beneath the bridge on the ground?

No, I've checked under the bridge. Also z positioning is player z pos + a static offset for all three parts of the script. 2 always work fine, but the middle one randomly does not.

Can someone give me some help with UVW Mapping in GMax? I'm not entirely sure how to go about mapping the model I'm working on. All of the other ones I've done where simple but this one is quite complex.

Is there a way to figure out the ground level at a world position? There doesn't seem to be a function to achieve that via script in vanilla or OBSE, but maybe I'm not thinking creative enough here. Does anyone know a trick to get the ground level z position at any given x/y world coordinate?

I'm not really sure. Just check the list of OBSE functions.

Could some one help with some modeling trouble? I made a separate thread for it. http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1031945

The custom NPC I placed out falls through the world when I test my mod. Help!

Did you duplicate a cell or add something to an existing cell? Have a look at the pathgrids (World>Edit Cell Path Grid). Actors will always move to the closest path node, even if there is nothing the NPC can stand on where the node is.

I did indeed duplicate a cell. Thanks, you are probably right, didn't think of that (My only previous modding experience is an armor mod)

edit: Yep, got it working, thanks alot!

Q: I want to change the Author/Description Info on my mod, but after I type somthing in the box and press enter, it says The File is in use by another program or somthing like that, then tells me to restart the CS. But I don't have any programs using it, and if I type then just click off, the CS freezes.

Do you have it loaded into the CS?

is there a way to check if the player has a special magic/disease in a script ?

Ah, I'd read it wrong. This is the acctual message I recieve:
"This Operation was not completed because CreateFileMapping failed to open file "Village of Weye.esp" with error:
Access is denied.
Exit other applications, restart the Construction Set, and try again."

Also, how would I go about moving patches of grass away from somthing as they do not appear in the CS

http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/IsSpellTarget.

I would like some clarification on the description of the http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/AddToLeveledList function.

"You can add any item to a list, but the engine will probably go haywire if you add abnormal items to a leveled list that is actually used in the game world."

Does this mean that it doesn't like things being added to lists are placed into the game world. (All I can think of is LevelCreatures) IS it safe to add items to leveled item lists? What about adding a leved item list to another list in this way?

See http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=21424 for an example. Requires OBSE.

quick question from me:
pose animations are basically meshes.
So if i were to take a pose i really like from a pose mod,rename it onehandidle and put it in its respective folder...would that work as its intended?
Or would i mess stuff up badly?

A "pose" animation has no time component - the whole idea is that the character does not move. I suspect you don't really want your player to freeze up when equipping a weapon.

Is it possible when you shoot arrows, for a script to run constantly to produce the enchantment effect even while in flight?

And the syntax for making scripts that have fire damage, with a radius and duration that are activated when the arrow hits anything, not just a person/creature!