Still kinda stumped on this one -- asked in the quick questions thread but no luck, so I'll try here. Does anyone know what the proper condition would be to use to exclude enchanting/alchemy effects from spellpower boosts? I've tried IsScenePlaying(WICraftItem01/02Scene), checking for IsEnchanting/IsAlchemy, and checking for WICraftingAlchemy/Enchanting. None of these seem to work, although it's entirely possible I'm just running them on the wrong targets (although I feel like I've tried all possible permutations). If it matters, I'm trying to check in two places for two different mod features -- one is on a Perk that does a ModSpellMagnitude, and the other is in the enchanting effects themselves (EnchFortifyDestructionConstantSelf, for instance). This really seems like it should be something simple, but it's stumping me.

what conditions did you put on your ModSpellMagnitude? I think all the vanilla perks that use it have HasKeyword conditions (so they're very specific in what spells they affect)

I've tried pretty much all the ones named above + some others. The vanilla perks are puzzling...take Augmented Flames, for instance. The Augmented Flames perk checks to make sure that Spell Subject EPMagic_SpellHasKeyword is "MagicDamageFire", which *somehow* affects only fire spells, not fire enchantments, despite the fact that the fire enchantment effect also has the keyword MagicDamageFire. In fact, if I copy that same condition over to my new perk, it has a different effect -- enchantments *are* affected, in addition to spells. So the distinction between spells and enchantments must be done somewhere else in the CK and it must be getting filtered out there instead. Where though, I have no idea.

Eureka! I think I finally figured this out. Since this took me a solid 2 days to get, I'm guessing that at some point someone else will want to do it, so here's how I did it.

Go to FormList (Under Misc in the CK), duplicate one of the lists there, rename it, empty it out. Then go to Magic Effects, highlight every Ench effect there, drag them all into the FormList. Then in the perk, under Spell conditions, check the Target for IsInList and find the list you just made. Voila!

Took me all of 3 minutes to do once I knew how. Funny how that works.


Sad Edit: Nope, nope. I was wrong. This has the same drawback as the other method that "worked" before. It's just returning a 1 so it's always excluding everything, not just Enchants/Potions. Sigh.

Quick and dirty temp solution:

Scriptname EnchFurnitureScript extends ObjectReferenceGlobalVariable Property IsEnchanting AutoEvent OnActivate(ObjectReference akActionRef)    if (akActionRef == Game.GetPlayer())        IsEnchanting.SetValue(1.0)        RegisterForSingleUpdate(5)    endifEndEventEvent OnUpdate()    if (IsFurnitureInUse())        RegisterForSingleUpdate(5)    else        IsEnchanting.SetValue(0.0)    endifEndEvent

Great idea, assuming I'm understanding it. Let me make sure I'm following...that script gets attached to the enchanting table furniture item and just sets the global flag IsEnchanting to 1 for as long as the table is in use, correct? And then what condition function do I use in the perk to check IsEnchanting?

http://www.creationkit.com/GetGlobalValue IsEnchanting == 0

I kept banging my head on the desk trying to figure out why this wouldn't work -- it seemed to exclude alchemy/enchanting from getting the bonus, but was also excluding everything else too. And then, in a flash of doh!-like inspiration, I realized: I kept going into the menu to check the values for the other spells immediately after using the enchanting table. It takes a few seconds for IsEnchanting to evaluate to false again. Whoops.

Thanks a ton, RandomNoob. I had really been struggling with this.