Hello,

I have an object (ship) with a constraint attached. The constraint doesn't seem to keep attached when loading a save under certain conditions. It keeps attached if I save and load the game without exiting the game, but if I exit the game after save, when loading it will not be attached.

I have set up an OnLoad() event that will reattach the constraints when the object's 3D is loaded. So, with this, if the player changes location, saves, exits the game, and returns to my object, the constraints do reattach. The same if he moves a bit away from the object, I have a function that checks for distance and reattaches the constraints. So if the player saves and loads near the object, but at a small distance, it also loads the constraints fine.

Now, the problem is mostly when the player is right by the object. I can't use the distance check, as the player is right on it and in contact. OnLoad() doesn't fire by game load, so it seems that it doesn't unload the object in the save. I could solve this by checking if the game is loaded, but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to check for this yet. Strangely, it works fine if I save and load without leaving the game, but not otherwise.

I know that SKSE was working on such an event sometime ago, but I couldn't find anything new on this.

The script is in one object and is standalone, so I would prefer not to use other scripts at any quests or any other objects. I do have the object to be constrained created by placeatme in the ship's script in the OnInit() event directly, so I could add something in that object's script though...

Any ideas how to solve this? How can I in a somewhat simple way check for game load??? If it's easier to check for saving, that could solve it too for me, as I could use a variable to check in the OnUpdate() event.

Thanks for any help...

Hopefully I'm understanding what you mean mate. If you want things to stay put, have a look at the script defaultdisablehavokonload. That script has lots of different events that stop things moving iirc. OnLoad, OnInit etc.

Have a look at the mate.

Thanks for the suggestion. I had completely forgotten about that script. I checked it and it won't work for my purpose, as I'm enabling and disabling havok often during the game, and it works as intended how I have it setup. I think that script just checks for when the object is loaded the first time, but not on save load. I did find in there the Is3DLoaded() function, which I had forgotten about. I might use it for something, although OnLoad is working fine, except when the player is on board the ship.

My ship is havoked. I disable havok when the player is away, but if he saves or loads while sailing, I have no way to check for that and prepare the ship for a later load, which would involve disabling the havok again and reattaching the constraints, which seem to get lost on game exit.

Ah ok mate hopefully you sort it, or someone else has another idea

http://www.creationkit.com/OnPlayerLoadGame_-_Actor is what you'd want for this.

That event can't be called in an ObjectReference script, right? So for that one to work, I would need a quest just for this purpose, add the player reference as an alias, and attach a script to the alias with the event. Then, on game load, the event would call a function inside my ship script, which would do it's stuff. Am I understanding this right? I had hoped not to touch the player though, but I guess this might actually be the only solution.

Exactly. But none of this involves modifying the player's actor or its script.

Ok, I have a very stupid problem now. I actually never called a function from outside it's own script, and I think I'm not understanding the wiki...

My function is inside a script from an activator which is placed in the world through the editor. It looks like this:

I tried calling it from the player alias script like this:
Compiler Error: cannot call the member function GameLoaded alone or on a type, must call it on a variable

And also like this:
Compiler Error: GameLoaded is not a function or does not exist

What am I doing horribly wrong?

"AADXLongBoat.GameLoaded()" would work if AADXLongBoat was a global function but since it is not you need an instance of AADXLongBoat. And the compiler cannot figure itself whether AADXLongBoat script is attached to zero, one or thousand activators.

So declare a property of this type on the alias and assign it in the Creation Kit.

So, if I understand correctly.

1. The property would have to point to the exact reference where the function needs to be called?

2. Or would be enough to place a placeholder in the world and point it to that, sink it under the ground, and then it would work with all objects?

If it's the first, then it's a real pitty, as my ships can at the moment be spawned directly in game and will work out of the box. This wouldn't be possible then. With the second, it would still be possible.

Anyway. I will test around. Thanks for the help!

if GameLoaded() only modifies global variables and such, you can pass any reference. Otherwise, GameLoaded likely has to be ran on a specific reference and then you must provide this one. The solution in this case is to register your reference on the quest at the time it is created (create a property theActivator on the quest, a theQuest on the activator, and when the activator is created make it call theQuest.theActivator = self).

I did really want to keep my ships spawnable as long as possible, so what I ended doing is this with a global variable:

This gives my ship enough time to detect that the game was loaded and do whatever. It works well.

Thank you all for your help!