Basically I'm wondering what sorts of things I can cast ObjectReferences as. I have a script (I'm not at home, can't test myself) that I would like to add to all books using skyproc. Here's the script:

Scriptname YaddaYadda Extends ObjectReferenceFaction Property PlayerFollowerFaction autoEvent OnContainerChanged(ObjectReference akNewContainer, ObjectReference akOldContainer)   LearnedSpell = (self as Book).GetSpell()   If akNewContainer as Actor      pFollower = (akNewContainer as Actor)   endIf   If pFollower.IsInFaction(PlayerFollowerFaction)==True && pFollower.HasSpell(LearnedSpell)==false     (akNewContainer as Actor).addSpell(LearnedSpell)     pFollower.RemoveItem(self)     self.delete()endEvent

Problem is, I have no idea if I can directly cast the ObjectReference akNewContainer as Actor, or self as Book.

Anyone know? If not, can you think of a workaround?

Scriptname YaddaYadda Extends ObjectReferenceFaction Property PlayerFollowerFaction autoSpell LearnedSpellActor pFollowerEvent OnContainerChanged(ObjectReference akNewContainer, ObjectReference akOldContainer)    if (GetBaseObject() as Book)        LearnedSpell = (GetBaseObject() as Book).GetSpell()        If akNewContainer as Actor            pFollower = akNewContainer as Actor            If pFollower.IsInFaction(PlayerFollowerFaction)==True && pFollower.HasSpell(LearnedSpell)==false                (akNewContainer as Actor).addSpell(LearnedSpell)                pFollower.RemoveItem(self)            endif        endif    endifendEvent

Thanks. As it turns out, UFO already does this, so I'm probably not going to bother. Still though, that teaches me something really valuable for future reference.

The wiki's http://www.creationkit.com/Cast_Reference#Cast_to_Object has some good information on casting between object types.

Basically you can only cast up or down the inheritance tree; you can't cast to siblings, for example. Casting to ancestor types will always be successful, and casting to descendant types will be successful if the object has that type, otherwise it will result in None.

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