I'm very new to GECK so I thought I'd start out with some simple scripts. I'm having a bit of a problem with this one:

scn QuestAddItem1short oncebegin gamemode	if once == 1		return	else		player.additem 00004240 50		set once to 1	endifend

When I remove the player.additem line, the script saves fine. While it's there, however, the script will not save. This means there is some sort of error I guess?

Any suggestions?

I've never seen anyone try scripting with the item's actual numeric ID. Try adding it by its item name (like, WeapLaserPistol or whatever)

How do I get the item name? Is it the item name in-game without spaces? E.g. 9mmAmmo?

It's the name as you see it in the editor, it's not necessarily the visible name in-game.

Ammo9mm for example.

If you have GECK it should be easy to see.

Just type part of the name of the item you want into the search bar, like 9mm. It will give you a bunch of options, and you can find the actual ammo one and type that name in instead. It should give you an error saying your doing it wrong, but as discussed, errors are broken in the geck right now.

Search bar? Whar?

edit: found it. i needed to set the main esm as the active file. should I save my mod with it active?

You should not have to do that. My search system works perfectly fine with the esm selected and my esp as active. (and no, you don't want to do that)

Double check yourself.

Ah! I understand. It all makes sense now!

Okay, one more question: How do I get my script to show up in the drop down box when I go to create a new quest?

Make sure you've made it a quest script. When you make a new script the default is object script so you have to use the dropdown menu on the script to change it to quest. Then once you saved the script and closed it up you can go back to your quest and open it up and you will see your script listed in the dropdown list of scripts.

I did just that and it is not appearing. The drop down box is completely empty D:

First save the quest, and then reopen it

Oops... duh. Thank you!