I have been using the following for months now to see if actors were up and in control of their body (as in not in havok state):

(ActorRef.getAnimationVariableBool("bHeadTracking")) && (ActorRef.getAnimationVariableBool("bAnimationDriven"))

All of the sudden I found they no longer return positive for actors that are up and moving around (not in Havok).



I know not very many moders would need this but I sure the heck do. Has anyone else had trouble with their scripts using either of these?
In Oblivion we used ( isidleplaying + isanimationplaying ) > 0 But that no longer works in Skyrim.


GOD I sure hope "I am on crack" and these do still work, I will do more testing but I have been testing already for 1/2 hour and so far no go.

My test on player and actor both always return "false":

debug.messagebox(ActorRef.getAnimationVariableBool("bAnimationDriven"))

ok, so sometimes it reports true and sometimes false, it seems to be related to combat. When I have it in a Onhit block it is always false.

But when I moved the test to a an on update event 0.5 seconds I get true mostly but sometimes false when in combat.

If only on the player it reports false all the time.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHGGGGGGGGHGGGG!!!

I give up....

There's some weird stuff since 1.6 - this looks like another bit of that weirdness. Either 1.6 patch was stuffed full of bugs, or there were a lot of bugs before, fixing which has led to a load of revised behaviour.

Bugs? In a Bethesda product? *shocked*