How do you detect that the player is currently riding a horse? In the conditions window http://www.creationkit.com/IsRidingHorse is available, but what is the script equivalent?

EDIT: Also http://www.creationkit.com/IsBeingRiddenis available in the conditions window, but no script equivalent either.

I came up with something a while back, posted it in http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1347565-no-papyrus-isridinghorse-function/page__p__20308648__hl__horse__fromsearch__1#entry20308648. It only works for the player, but someone also posted an idea that would probably work for NPCs. Kind of weird they didn't include a function for it though.

Alternately, you could try http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1354316-conditions-in-papyrus/.

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Detecting the player is perfect but I'll be running it from an alias. I check it out, see if it works. They also excluded IsBeingRidden from the script functions. I hope they add them in an update. At least they exist which means SKSE will be able to dig it out.

Thanks but this is to do with 1st / 3rd person views on the horse - A much needed mod in its self! Is there something there that you saw that can help. I might be suffering from scripters blind spot.

What I'm trying to do is have a follower alias read what the player is doing (mounted /dismounted) and respond accordingly. Some as what we did in Oblivion for horse riding and evp'ing.

That post describes a generic method that can be used to give scripts access to every condition type available to effects, and there are a lot, including IsRidingHorse. Just replace the IsPC1stPerson condition with IsRidingHorse. The only drawbacks are that it requires a little more setup, and there's apparently a bit of a lag.

Thanks, I will have another look later.

Would any of these do the trick: GetPlayerAction (stub) or GetLastPlayerAction (no wiki info)? If they are anything like IsPlayerActionActive, perhap... not.

Or how about GetCurrentAIProcedure or GetCurrentAIPackage (no wiki info) which is in the conditions window. In Oblivion it had numbers such as ...

22 = MOUNT_HORSE
23 = DISMOUNT_HORSE

This is the way:

Game.GetPlayer().GetAnimationVariableBool("bIsRiding")

The way that mitchalek posted would be the best way, it accesses the current havok animation's stored value of bIsRiding. There are many other useful variables stored in an animation but knowing which you have access to is a little more difficult, you either have to find another example used, or open up the havok animation yourself and take a peek.

Read the CK list and it pointed to a thread here
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1360112-full-dump-of-all-animation-variables/