So I just had the idea for a mod which will add weather, time, and racially influenced bonuses to magical abilities of the player (maybe NPCs as well, if it doesn't prove too difficult).

Here's what I have planned so far:

Time:Dawn - mysticismDay - alterationDusk - mysticismNight - conjuration (closeness to Oblivion)Weather:clear - restoration + magicka bonus (if day - effect of magnus)cloudyfoggy - illusionovercastrain - restorationthunder - destructionash - destructionblightsnowblizzard - destruction

Nords = extra destruction bonus in blizzardArgonians = extra magicka bonus in rainHigh Elves = extra alteration bonus during the dayDark Elves = extra destruction bonus in ash stormsWood Elves = extra illusion bonus in fogOrcs = noneKhajiit = extra mysticism bonus at dawn and duskBretons = extra restoration bonus in clear weatherImperial = noneRedguard = none

My initial (and really only thought) so far is to handle this with a global script, but I'm worried about how badly scripting this functionality might hit performance. Scripting and clever modding tricks aren't my expertise. So I wanted to ask here: does anyone have suggestions for alternative methods I could use? Or nice clean scripts which get this functionality done with minimal effect on FPS?

And a bonus question is, how difficult or costly (performance-wise) would it be to add this functionality to NPCs?

Thank you very much!
-Melchior

You could make a pretty efficient single global script to do this for the player. Just add a framecounter or timer so you only execute the body of the script every once in a while, perhaps every 30 frames or 1 second or something like that. I think that kind of script would have no noticeable affect on performance.

I don't know about adding it to all NPCs, that sounds like you'd need MWSE functionality, and I don't know about that.

Well that's good news to hear for sure! I was worried about it affecting performance significantly. I'm not familiar with how to implement a framecounter or timer to limit execution of the script though.

I think I'll take a crack at writing the baseline script and then maybe ask about optimizing it with a timer. Be prepared for a messy script!

Bummer about the NPCs though, I wasn't sure about that but now that you mention it I think you're right since I believe a global script has to have a reference "player->" or whatever. Oh well, this is mainly focused on the player anyway, I don't think minorly boosting stats on NPCs would be that noticeable to the player anyway.

Easy as pie:

Begin myscriptshort framecounterset framecounter to framecounter + 1if ( framecounter < 30 )	returnendifset framecounter to 0;;; Body of script goes hereEnd myscript

That would be my opinion too.

Woot! That'll help a lot, this type of script doesn't need to be run that often since weather changes take time and obviously so do time changes o_O

I'll be sure to come back for help if I get stumped.