I have a quest alias created by an event, which is a non-unique NPC and is different every time the event occurs. I use this quest alias in scenes without any issues, but if I want to run scripts on that NPC that requires the object reference, i.e. GetDistance I am unable to do this.

How can I return the distance between the player an alias?

ReferenceAliasProperty.GetReference().GetDistance(Game.GetPlayer())

Over half hour of searching and I couldn't find that out. Which I'd known about GetReference a month ago, would have made things a lot easier.

Thanks JustinOther, massive help.

I want to echo this really quick. There are three or four people here who are always answering the stupid stuff I come up with. THANKS JustinOther! And those other people. Wish you were ActorBase I could .MoveTo(MyComputerDesk).

No prob Glad to be able to help when able.

JustinOtherREF.MoveTo(AenarasDeskREF)JustinOtherREF.PlayIdle(WaveHello)

Another dumb question. Is there a similar way to get the actor of a quest alias? I can't seem to find a corresponding function.

The NPC is a alias, actor, and object reference. This is not as easy as I thought.

http://www.creationkit.com/GetActorReference_-_ReferenceAlias returns GetReference() As Actor.