Hi there.
Does anyone know the "Type Code" for caravan cards?
Or how I might find it?

I'm working on a script that uses RemoveAllTypedItems to store the player's cards...

Thanks,
Dan

A general question is how to find out the hex item code (like 00033bc6) for any item. For items which you see on the screen, you can find out by typing tilde to get the console, then left clicking on the item, then typing tilde again to remove the console.

Does anybody know how to find out the hex item code for items which do not display on the screen, or which do not happen to be onscreen right now?

For writing scripts in geck, you do not use hex item codes. Each item has a normal name. In the geck object window, if you filter for "card", you will find a large number of cards such as CardClubs10B. These must be the caravan cards, since they occur in the lists under Miscellaneous/Caravan Deck. There are a lot of them, so I would think the game would provide a "formlist" to list them all. I can't find one. So there must be some way the game manipulates sets of cards. I looked into scripts and there appears to be a game command AddCardToPlayer, but I can't find any further clues than that.

Although I don't have the complete solution, maybe these bits will help you along the way.

I'm sure there was an updated type list in one of the NVSE threads, either way they'd be the people to ask as they've got access to the type lists for use in functions like GetFirstRef.

Any existing list does not help, for a modder who has added an item. I am sure there must be a simple way to find out what is the item code for an item I added, but I have not figured it out yet.

You mean for an item you've added into your own mod? Like a book or container or armor? You can look it up in NVEdit the same way you'd look up the ID for any item in a mod if you were interested in consoling in the item. Open up NVEdit click none so that mods are deselected and just click on the one mod you are interested in looking in (this saves loading time). Once it's loaded go into the category you are interested in (don't do any filtering or anything) and find the item you are interested in and the Form ID number is what you are looking for.

Or, if you are in the GECK go find your item in it and hover the cursor over it and the item number will appear.

:) llama

The items FormID (the hex code) is a completely different thing from an item type's type code.

You could just call GetType on one and see what it returns.

...and that is exactly what I did.

Well done TalkieToaster (and nice Red Dwarf Ref, BTW).

:)

(Although you need the NVSE installed for the GetType command to work)

Caravan Cards Type Code = 115

Thanks for the various leads, let me restate my question. (Hopefully not thread hijacking.)

If I am playing, and I have a desperate need for a Fission Battery, I type a console command:

player.additem 00033bc6 1

If I want to do the same thing in a script in geck, I add the line:

player.additem FissionBattery 1

You cannot interchange them for some reason, which I am sure is a complicated programming reason related to storing string data. If I add a new item in geck, say FissionBatteryImproved, it has some formid. But when I type that formid instead of 00033bc6, I get an error about an unrecognized argument. How do I find out the right hex code to type? I mentioned one partial way, if I place an item on the ground in geck, then in game, do ~, left click, it will tell me the code.

But surely there is a place I can find the right hex codes in geck. That would also help giving myself items that don't have convenient geometry, and I wouldn't need to keep the list of all cheat codes for existing items bookmarked either.

Editor IDs are basically easily-readable aliases for formID that automatically correct for load order. You can use formIDs in the GECK but it is a bad idea.
To manually correct a formID for load order, replace the first two digits with your mod's load order position in hex, conveniently provided by FOMM/NVMM.

Great, thanks. The bit about replacing the upper two digits with the mod load position is the connection I was missing.