sooo....

RandomActor = Game.FindRandomActorFromRef(PlayerRef, 2000)debug.messagebox("RandomActor")

This only gives you the ID number of the actor not their name. Is there a way to get the name?

No way huh? Well, I guess I will make this a SKSE request then.

http://www.creationkit.com/Text_Replacement

This is not a quest:


RandomActor = Game.FindRandomActorFromRef(PlayerRef, 2000)
debug.messagebox("RandomActor")

If it can be used with Debug messages how would you phrase it then?

Not much on that pages made sense to me. I had read that page few days ago and thought that only pertained to quests and messages made in the CK .
(Not to Debug messages.)


But you are saying to do this:


debug.messagebox(Alias."RandomActor")


er...so that will work?

I guess I will just try that

RandomActor = Game.FindRandomActorFromRef(PlayerRef, 2000)
debug.messagebox(Alias."RandomActor")

and see if it works then.

No, it will not even compile.

No, this is right at the top of the list of things the SKSE team has said they'll be implementing: GetName() and SetName().

The closest you can come now, without SKSE, would be to start a quest with the player and an NPC as aliases, and fill the NPC alias via Find Matching Reference with the Closest in the Loaded Area. You could then use the name of that alias in situations like dialogue and messages that permit variable substitution. But that only works for unique actors, and would probably not be a good solution for anything that needs to be fast-paced.