I'm trying to write my first script and any help would be greatly appreciated, I have 0 experience with programming.



I know that line 7:

set rTeamStealthboy to GetPlayerTeammate

Needs to be changed to an explicit reference, as it is a quest script. An explicit reference would be something that points to a paticular ID (like Player), right? So does that mean for this script I can't use a set variabe?

What are my options?

Another question, I'm working on an object script for light armour. If I use Begin OnEquip will that start whenever the NPC spawns? I'm assuming that when an NPC spawns it'll automatically equip his/her best armour. Or perhaps they spawn with the armour already equipped so there's no equip action for OnEquip to latch onto?

GetPlayerTeammate is used to check if a specific reference is set to playerteammate. Unless you want to use the reference id of the companion I don't think a quest script is going to work for this. You could add an item to the companion with a script attached to it. Not sure why you are using menumode, I think gamemode would be required for this to work properly. You could also just make it part of the companions script unless you don't want to edit them, which is understandable.

I'm not sure about the onequip question. It's easy to test though, just put a showmessage (or print to console if using NVSE) in the onequip block and see when it displays.

I do want to use the reference id of the companion/team mate, I was hoping to just add one effect and script to the stealth boy so that it would affect every person who is a current member of playerteammate, vanilla permanent companions, temporary companions and companions added by new mods and DLC, instead of having to alter the script for every NPC who can follow the PC.

The goal of the script is to make everyone who is a member of playerteammate have a stealth field (and benefit from stop combat alarm) when the PC uses a stealth field.




Aahh, that's useful, I'll have to test that shortly, thank you. There was something else I wanted to test out and that'll make it a thousand times easier.

You can add a script to the stealthboy that ref walks the near by cells, and uses the GetPlayerTeammate function. You would have to use NVSE. I'll take a closer look at the stealthboy and try to come up with a script if you need.

You would think that there should be an easy way to get the reference of the current teammate. In standard FNV, there isn't. For an example, see the Gomorrah elevator script. It has a big "case statement" which lists each possible companion. It is possible there is a NVSE command to do this, but I don't think so. Anyway, there are a number of mods which allow you to have a large/unlimited number of companions. So any such command would need to return a list, and you would need to do this for each NPC on the list.

For a partial solution, clone the Gomorrah elevator script. I don't think there is a perfect solution.

Thank you, that'd be great. I've not used NVSE yet, but now is as good a time as any to start.



Alright, I'll hav to look into that, thanks.


I've got (yet) another question.

If I attach a script to a piece of armour that uses without a reference, would that add the perk to the NPC equipping the armour or to the PC? If the latter, is there a that returns the ID of the NPC equipping the armour?

I want to add a perk to light armour wearing NPCs to make them move faster depending on their level. The perk, it's script and effects are finished, it's just applying it. Failing that, is there a that returns the ID of all NPCs wearing light armour?

I am not sure a perk is the best way to add an armor effect. If you look at some of the existing armors with "magic effects" like the powered armor, they use an object effect. There are many existing ones to choose from and you can make your own.

If you use addperk or any other command which takes a reference, and you don't give a reference, it uses the object which activated the script. This would apply the perk to the armor, which is not what you want. You can use "set rRef to getcontainer" to get the owner (container) of the armor.

Ok what I have done is to create a new base effect with a script effect and the following script...

scn StealthScriptref npcbegin scripteffectstartset npc to getfirstref 200 1label 10if(npc)   if(npc.getplayerteammate)     npc.CastImmediateOnSelf StealthboyCompanion   endif   set npc to ArmorCombat   set npc to getnextref   goto 10endifendifend

I added this effect to the stealth boy with a 2 second duration, though the duration may not be important since it loops.

The SlealthboyCompanion is just a new ingestible that was a copy of the normal stealthboy without the new script effect.



Use getcontainer to return the NPC equipping an item.



Don't think this is really doable without ref walking new areas each time the player changes cells, or scripting all light armors. Not very practical I think.

I just had a look at the NVSE commands, I get what getfirstref is for, but what's the purpose of " 200 1" and what does setting the npc variable to "ArmorCombat" do?






Ugh, now I feel like a complete idiot, I must have glanced pass that link in the wiki a 100 times today...





Yeah, that's what I was going to do. It'd be time consuming adding it to armours that already have a script, but it's the only option coming to mind.




I had considered that, but I didn't want the PC to be affected.

Thanks guys, you've been very helpful.

The 200 tells the script to scan for actors only, and the 1 is the cell depth which in this case is the players cell and 8 adjacent cells.

Setting the reference to an object between calls prevents an error that can cause crashes from what I understand. It can be any object I just used the armor.

Edit: BTW in my version I added another check to the script that only allows companions to stealth if they have a stealthboy in their inventory. Don't know if that's useful to you of not but you just need to add this if so...

if(npc.getplayerteammate)
if npc.getitemcount stealthboy >= 1
npc.CastImmediateOnSelf StealthboyCompanion
npc.removeitem stealthboy 1
endif
endif

Edit2: Forgot to remove the stealthboy from the companion, fixed above now

That's brill, thanks for all the help.