What is the right way to add an item to the player's inventory from the quest stage scripting (or anywhere else for that matter)?

I'm not seeing any easy way to declare the player

you can either use a property and fill it with the player actor

or you can run a game function Game.GetPlayer()

both have their advantages and disadvantages

Or since it's a quest you can make a Alias that's the player.

such as?

using a property is faster and cheaper than a function call get.Player(), but being a property, it is stored into the save game data and can become tedious to remove if ever changed after the mod is published.

you can reduce the cost of get.Player() by casting it as an actor variable inside of a function if you need to use it multiple times. this is my preferred method

example

Function SomeFunction()

Actor Player = Game.GetPlayer()

Player.Additem.(something)
Player.Removeitem(SomethingElse)
Player.AddToFaction(TheSomeDudes)

EndFunction


but if you only need to use a single action for player, you only need GetPlayer() once and doesnt need to be cast as a variable

That seems pretty straightforward, thanks. So for the property declarations would I just leave Player as blank then? I'm assuming that doesn't matter since it is being defined right away, but I also know it is better to give initial values for some things.

for a player property you would declare as

Actor Property Player Auto


call as Player.DoSomething()


to fill the property. go to the properties section and use (any) for the cell and Player for the specific actor

didn't realize you could just use "any" lol, thanks Amethyst

if i remember correctly i think the (any) cell is the (0,0) tamriel persistent group cell although i could be wrong.