For a while now, I've been trying to do two things - just what the title says.

1 - Make jump expend the player's Action Points. I'm not sure how to go about this. Detect a key press => then subtract AP? Could someone point me at the GECK functions I should be looking at?

2 - Force first person view, all the time, no matter what (not too concerned if this conflicts with VATS just yet... more for my own testing purposes.) - My idea here is to maybe make a hidden perk that runs and forces first person view? Or is that far too system intensive? Is there an entry somewhere in FalloutNV.esm I could delete to just remove the third person camera altogether? I'm talking about the player being able to switch using the scroll wheel or the default F key to quick-switch.

1 - No expert on this kind of thing, but couldn't you use http://geck.gamesas.com/index.php/IsAnimPlaying instead of GetKeyPressed?

EDIT: Actually, this would be better still: http://geck.gamesas.com/index.php/IsPlayerActionActive.

2. http://geck.gamesas.com/index.php/DisablePlayerControls only needs to be set once (unless a quest script overwrites the setting), and has a function to specifically disable third person view.

Jumpwise, you could use FOSE to detect if the jump key is being pressed i.e. 'Space' or what have you.

Yeah, both seem like a means to the same thing. If I use the IsAnimPlaying, will that cover all the Jump animations?

My feeling is that the animation method will probablly be a better method - although what if the player tries to jump in mid air during the initial jump? Or, say the player is sitting down and presses spacebar - it would still expend action points, even though there is no jump occuring.

I appreciate all the help and suggestions! I'm new to modding and getting these recommendations really helps a lot.

I think "IsPlayerActionActive 6" would be the best option to use.

although be wary this particular piece of code is finicky, not to say the least. I used it for checking if a weapon is being fired and boy, did it want to play up.

This worked OK, sometimes it doesn't "register" the jump, though.

Yeah, this is what I mean by temperamental.

It basically runs in a continuous cycle, and if it misses the command at the wrong part of the cycle, it ignores it.

I think this may be as close to getting it done as you wanted without using FOSE.

I don't mind using FOSE at all - can I make the script wait two or three seconds while the jump animation plays before subtracting more AP?

edit: Is there a downside to having a script to check if the jump animation is playing? More resource intensive?