Obviously locations weren't in Oblivion so this is all new to me. Just a few questions:

1. What are locations actually used for?
2. What does setting a location as a child of another actually do?
3. What do the different location keywords mean? Like "LocTypeStore". What does that actually do? There's no documentation on the different keyword uses.

Cheers guys.

It appears to flag it to make the game consider the cells with that location to be of a similar type. I guess it helps with radiant quests and things. Others appear to work almost like overarching scripts, like the noreset one.

Locations are used to conditionalize "IF" Persistent AI Actors run their AI or not -> this system alone saves multitudes of system resources and wasted CPU cycles by not processing AI for actors that are Persistent but no where near the players current position, in the older games Persistent AI on actors was always processed no matter if the player was 1 room or 9million units away.

Setting a location as a child of another -> I cant be sure maybe a dev will come by and give the real answer but my thoughts on this are, if your in a location its actors AI will process if your in either the parent or child space.

no idea what Keywords are used for...

Thanks guys. Anyone have any idea about the keywords?

All I could find was the wiki info on what a keyword is:

http://www.creationkit.com/Keywords

And http://www.creationkit.com/Keyword


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A Keyword represents metadata (a named bit of information) that can be added to most objects (such as http://www.creationkit.com/Location, http://www.creationkit.com/Category:Actor, or Named http://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=LinkRefs&action=edit&redlink=1). Keywords do nothing in and of themselves, but are often used by http://www.creationkit.com/Category:Condition_Functions or other game systems.

I'm aware of what keywords do, however there's no documentation whatsoever on what the keywords actually mean for locations. Anyone have an idea?

Just a friendly bump.

I'm no expert but I know that keywords for location are called by some scripts. For example I couldn't get a bard to play random songs (only takes request) until I had a location with the keyword LocTypeInn which I noticed in the BardSongsScript (don't know if setting her to boss of the location helped but I did that too).

Yeah, we really need a list of keywords and what they're used for. Now that scripts are external too, we can't use the Find Text function in the CK to search through scripts anymore, which makes finding where these keywords are used difficult.