I am trying to make it when I hit a person with a spell, they will do a slash animation. But, for some reason it won't work:

Scriptname aaBess extends ObjectReferenceActor MeActiveMagicEffect GetTargetActor()Event OnInit()Me = GetTargetActor()	  Me.PlayAnimation("ihm_attackpowerright")EndEvent

required (...)+ loop did not match anything at input '('

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This line looks like it's trying to define a variable name as "GetTargetActor()", which won't work.

ActiveMagicEffect GetTargetActor()

Your script should extend http://www.creationkit.com/ActiveMagicEffect_Script, I believe, which would allow you to associate it with your magic effect. Try this:

ScriptName aaBess extends ActiveMagicEffectEvent OnEffectStart(Actor akTarget, Actor akCaster)	akTarget.PlayAnimation("ihm_attackpowerright")EndEvent

Does that code compile? If not, what error does it give? If it does, does it work when you associate that script with your magic effect?

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Ok it worked. Thanks Cipscis! You can't comprehend what a help you are to me. One more question though, can I begin a line with "If" in Papyrus? I'm so used to Oblivion scripting I'm not sure what works still.

Hmm... wait. I test in game, but when I cast the spell at them, they do nothing. Any tips?

Conditional functions still work like in Oblivion - they still use the "if", "elseif", "else" and "endif" keywords.

Try adding a call to http://www.creationkit.com/Notification_-_Debug in your script to check that it's running when it's supposed to. What have you attached it to at the moment?

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Added a notification. When I cast the spell, the actor does nothing. But, I do see the notification.

Regardless of the script I have found the playanimation function to be extremely unreliable. You might want to try the "playIdle" function which I have had more (but not much more) success with.

Can PlayIdle use animation that don't have the Idle prefix?

I'm currently trying "PlayGamebryoAnimation". Will report results.

Completely stuck. Does the PlayAnimation function even work?

Are either of these posts useful? http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1344517-playsubgraphanim-and-playsyncanim/page__view__findpost__p__20267453, http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1343921-script-to-change-activator-animation-idle/page__view__findpost__p__20260468

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