Hey all! I want to keep an actor's data stored for future use. Is there a way of creating a copy of the actor instead of just a reference, so I don't have to create a bunch of variables to store all the data?

Thanks!

Right click on the object in the object window, then click on "duplicate". It makes a copy of the original object underneath with "COPY001" added to the name

- Hypno

Sorry, should have been more explicit. I want a copy of an actor at run-time, to be processed in a papyrus script, instead of a pointer to an actor.

In general OOP, this would be a deep-copy of an object.

Check out:
QF_MG04MonkSceneQuest_00076F39.psc

However, I think the clone done by the (commented out) code in the file above is not a deep copy. So I guess the answer is no... You can clone an NPC or the PC, but you will have to do it the hard way: PlaceAtMe(ActorFormID), Transfer the items to a intermediary container which has events on it to add incoming items to both the original actor and the clone actor. And then hard code a bunch a standard variable checks to ensure the two clones have the same stats... and then synch up the factions. Probably create/inject a huge FormList of all factions and perform an IsInFaction check against all items in the list to ensure the factions are the same. A lot of work... probably wouldn't do it myself.

Yea it would seem so. What a bummer :/.