Do you only get a corrupted save error when trying to load it by script or also when you manually load it in the loading menu?

How do you do that?

I tried CDM's animation trick and it works ok, but my player can't move after I applied the custom animation. All I am doing is playing the cower animation on the player when they take holy damage. I tried to do player.pickidle but its still stuck. I also tried player.playgroup idle, 1 and my player is still stuck in that animation and can barely move.

How do you make something in a worldspace respawn
I got a vendor that sells some aplle's and such and they dissapear when you buy them, but how do i make them respawn? my market would look a little empty without all these things

Double click on a container's base object (NPC or chest, where shop items are stored) and check the Respawn flag.
Time to respawn containers is determined by IHoursToRespawnCell game setting, default value is 72 hours.

its not in a container. its placed in the worldspace an extirior

add a script with something like this on each item you want to respawn: (will work if the player/another actor picks up the object, don't know about buying through the barter menu - probably not unfortunately).
scn AwiaAppleRespawnScript

begin OnActivate
set actor to getactionref
actor.additem apple 1 (didn't look up apple's item id so that might be apple01 or something similar)
disable
End

Begin OnReset
Enable
End

I doubt whether you could use it do do what you want to. The method i posted about was to replace a vanilla idle associated with an action, like vampireFeeding. Since I haven't test it extensively, and from what I have, I know that it has it's issues, which mostly have to do with the animations themselves. As for your issue, QQuix had a similar problem while forcing idles on the player. I suggest you look into HeX-0ff's Animation tester's script to see how he prevents such an issue.

My next big project after the bow is making a custom race of sorts, eventually changing it into a were-race sort of thingy. I found some a mod that adds the creature I want to model around , but the meshes are released in .NIF format. Using Nifscope, can I get the mesh out somehow, so I can open it up in blender?

You'll need the http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/NIF_Importers_and_Exporters.

Thanks again

I want the value of my short variable to show up in a Messagebox. How do I do that?
This is what my searching has gotten me:

Messagebox "Message text." [var1] [var2] ...

Ok, but where, and with what syntax, in the actual text of the message does the variable's value show up? I wish that was explained more in the wiki, instead every Messagebox tutorial seems to just assume you already know it.

A variable will take the place of a formatting in the messagebox body. A formatter is something like %g or %f.

Messagebox "Variable 1: %g Variable 2: %.1f", Var1, Var2, "Button"

With the vanilla MessageBox you cannot use variables in the buttons, if you want that you will need to use http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/MessageBoxEx. Note that it has a slightly different syntax, instead of seperate strings for the text body and each button it is all put in one string, seperating the body and buttons from eachother with a |

MessageBoxEx "Variable 1: %g Variable 2: %.1f|Button 1|Button Var2: %g|Button3", Var1, Var2, VarButton2

Question: Is there any performance benefits to using http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Category:Stage_Functions (are they also called results scripts?) over putting every thing in one script? I know it helps organize things, and you can call it over and over again, but other than that is there a real difference?

double posting sorry

Need help with a sit/eat package. I'm using an eat type package to control sitting. Whenever the player sits the companion does as well. The issue is even if there is a seat right next to the player the companion never seems to use it.

It currently has a radius of 128 specified. If I make that smaller will it fix the issue? Should I be doing it differently?

Major benefits. A result script gets run once, when it's needed. A quest script keeps getting called as long as the quest is active, and has to keep checking if it has work to do. A really good quest script has nothing in it except variables, which are changed by the result scripts in the Quest stages and Topics. Object scripts typically consist of OnActivate, OnEquip, OnDeath or other event-triggered blocks that only get used when the event occurs, so they are like result scripts from the performance perspective.
Of course there are some things that can only be done in the quest script - like time checks - but you try to keep them to a minimum.

Pretty sure this has been asked before, but I don't have the patience right now to go digging through months/almost a year's worth of posts to find it.

Q: Is there an in-game console command to detect what Wilderness cell the player is in?

Pardon my slowness, but isn't making a result script the same as putting a "switch" or condition on the block of code you only want to run once? The code will not run unless you set the switch to do so:

begin gameMode; "QUEST" CODE HEREset switch to 2if switch == 2   ; "RESULT" CODE HERE   set switch to 0endifend

Using a result script when appropriate means never having to execute the test, including the logic in the quest script mean that the test is made millions of times, even if the code inside is not.

But sometimes you have to combine the two, because what you want to do isn't possible in a result script (like waiting for three weeks) so you set a variable that's part of the quest script and then test it later. E.g. your result script saves the current value of GameDaysPassed and sets a "work to do flag" and the quest script has a test like

if (Flag == 1); Do I have work to do?   if (GameDaysPassed > SavedDays + 21)	  do something that's supposed to happen later	  set Flag to 0   endifendif

The test on Flag gets done a very large number of times, and every script that's running has to have one or more of these and they all add up. A result script is used only when its Topic or Quest Stage or whatever is used/changed/done, so the more code you can move to those, the better for performance.

Don't get too used to them though. OBSE 18 will be adding user-defined functions !


Type in tdt and then sdt 2. Cycle through the debug messages using Scroll Lock.

Back to that were-mod I'm trying to make. I've got a plan for what I'm going to do. I'll model parts of the creature as individual equipment slots. My question is, can I attach animations to those pieces of equipment (such as special combat moves, flying, etc etc) and call them up? How would I induce the animations? Through a script?

How do i make some rumors that only appear in my worldspace, but removes other rumors

Yes, I would like to know this too. I think we can set a condition for all the other rumors like 'getinfaction mycustomdialoguefaction 0' and make a custom dialogue faction, then make our rumors that would have a condition of 'getinfaction mycustomdialoguefaction 1'. But this would take a LOT of time to get right. I'm hoping there is an easier way?

if you only want "local" rumors, do what the vanilla game does in Kvatch - have a "local" topic, which won't be labelled "Kvatch" in your case, and set no rumors on the population. The only downside is they're not labelled "Rumors" that way, but most players will expect a local topic anyway.

You can still name your local topic as Rumors, right? :huh: