Sorry Uglulyx and Ragnalin for giving you false info.

I have a question...

Is it safe to move map markers for my mod? Or would this be a no-no? It wouldn't be a far move, I would only be moving it a small distance. The Weye Map Marker isnt in the right place for my Tri-shards of Weye mod.

Also, would it be possible to enable a sword to shoot lightning?

It is relatively safe, but not without a gotcha: The location of every discovered map marker is stored in your savegame. So if your mod moves it, it will only be moved for those who installed your mod before they discovered that marker. Similarily, if they discover the marker as moved by your mod, that position is stuck even if they later uninstall your mod.

I wouldn't do it unless it is really necessary. Luckily the weye-marker has a ref-id so you could disable it from script and you could add your own.
You could either ask to put in ac544.enable in the console or to cast a spell (before..) with it to return the old marker if they decide to disable your mod.


Initially I would say yes, but it would depend on the exact use/idea.

Quick question about enable/disable and parented objects. What if I have a mod which adds a parent to an existing (persistant) reference and then disables this parent? I know the child objects will be disabled aswell but will they remain that way after my mod is removed (since the 'disabled-state' originated from the parent which is no longer available). Or will the object's state be re-read from all the active mods and such?

If I use "GetEquippedObject 13" on an actor, and that actor has a shield and a 2H/no weapon equipped, will it return the shield's ID/whatever, or 0/-1/anything else? And what about IsShieldOut? WIll it return true if a 2H/no weapon is equipped?

I can't test it myself, as I currently don't have Oblivion installed.

Well you know Link right? Well my friend Link used to have this sword that shot out beams of light whenever he had full health. I want to duplicate this into oblivion. I want lightning to arc from my blade when at full health somehow, and still be able to use the sword. I have no idea how to do this though. Probably will have to deal with distance... if I am 100 units (whats the measurement in TES CS anyway?) away then cast lightning projectile... if not and/or if not at full health then behave like a regular sword... Does this sound like its possible?

The functionality that you describe matches what Wands do in Magickal Arsenal. Unfortunately, the Wands are exactly why MgkAr has been shelved for over a year now - they just do not work very well. In other words... that's a very difficult thing to do well.

Ah that's unfortunate for me... How does your magic wands work exactly?

Oh There we go that fixed it. As for my oil puddles maybe I could just make an is spell target function, but I'm not sure that would work on activators. Anyone else got any ideas?

Im wondering how to place a dead creature in the CS... or do I need a script? If so, what would be the easiest script function?

Just make a copy of the creature with a base health of zero, or if you want to do something interesting like rising from the dead you could do a begin onload block to kill them then a trigzone etc, to call the resurrect command on them. Don't forget those doonce and getdead catches though.

Derr! haha thank you, and you just gave me an idea

I plan to do something like that too anyway.

My quick question is: is there a way to make an NPC attack the player (and only the player!) without the guards intervening (via script)?
I mean, I could set his aggression to 100, but then he'd attack anything that moves, and the guards would put him down very fast. I just want him to attack the player as if the player had attacked him first. It would even be alright if the player got a bounty for it, or if the guards helped the NPC.

Basically, I want to punish the player for a new kind of crime that is equal to attacking someone. And if the NPC in question is in a faction that is marked "evil", then I want the guards to just not intervene (if possible).

Pseudo-code:
NPCReference.SetGotAttackedByPC 1

or simply:
NPCReference.Attack player

NPCReference.StartCombat Player

Maybe use the factions and "Special Combat" option to keep the guards out of it?

Or Use a hidden spell that is marked as hostile to have the player attack the NPC without doing him damage. It would be considered an assault by the player on the NPC.

I need help PLEASE

In one script, I have duplicated player using:

set playercopy to player.createfullactorcopy

Now, In another script I absloutely need to get the ID of that player copy so I can execute more functions on it. The player copy dies so running a spell effect on it is out of the question. Spell effects don't run on dead actors as far as I know.

Anyway, since this copy is created in the game and it has no EditorID I can't figure out how to get its ID using a second script. If there are more ways to aquire a object reference or ID without knowing it please help.

I have a question about adding textures in Blender. I'm making a new building and I want to use vanilla Oblivion textures for now. Do I need to add the textures as materials or do I need to UV unwrap the mesh and add them in the image editor?

hmmm this sound like a certain quest from shivering isles so you might wnat to check that

What quest?

Then you've probably not played it...it is one of the last quests. Don't go http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Shivering:Symbols_of_Office if you didn't play it yet.
Isn't it possible to in fact use a spell effect as you could tell the script to send the reference to another script. The reference could be checked in the spell script and the reference send over once it appears not to be the player.

You could set up a quest and add line: "set myquest.myplayercopyref to playercopy" to your initial script

Then later access it again in the other script: "set playercopy2 to myquest.myplayercopyref".

I think that would work.

Careful though, because your player clone may not be persistent and you may not be able to have the second script access him unless you are in the same cell.

Coming back to my oil puddles which can be set on fire. I've set them up with a trigzone that has this script.

scn aaaCRSDOilSpillTriggerScriptshort doonceref targetref myselffloat timerBegin ontrigger Playerif player.getequipped torch02 == 1 && Doonce == 0set myself to getselfset target to getparentrefplaysound ITMTorchHeldEquiptarget.enableset doonce to 1set timer to 60endifendBegin onmagiceffecthit FIDGif doonce == 0set myself to getselfset target to getparentrefplaysound ITMTorchHeldEquiptarget.enableset doonce to 1set timer to 60endifendbegin gameModeif doonce == 1 && timer <= 0playsound ITMTorchHeldUnEquiptarget.disableendifif timer >= 0set timer to timer - getSecondsPassedendifend

But it doesn't seem to be working at all, the torch bit I believe may be because mods like droppable torches changes an id or something. I was wondering if anyone else had any other workarounds.

I don't think that you should have the timer check with both a <= and a >= at the end there.

Otherwise, it looks reasonably good. I assume the fire trap is set as the parent of the trigger zone, and that they are set to use opposite states of enable?

I'd try adding some debug messages through the code to see if everything in the script is working, or where it is failing.

Thank you, showler. Your post was helpful.

Is there a begin block which runs evertime the actor kills someone?