[KRistina Karlsson]

Sounds like the PSCs weren't packed in the BSA? If that's the case, we can only hope the next CK update will furnish them like was done for Dawnguard.

[Jessica Colville]

Wow! Thanks a lot to both of you! And good that I found out soon about the too fast interval and RegisterForUpdate issues... I will try this right away. A lot of nifty tricks I'm learning here! And while I'm at it, and you both seem in the mood to help newbies, is there anywhere a tutorial about creating interrupt packages? (The wiki one doesn't seem newbie proof) I need one to check if armor in a specific slot is equipped or not, and let the surrounding NPC's react to it by stopping and watching. I got the package done, but I'm not sure I defined it correctly as an interrupt package (have it selected as an Spectator interrupt override). I need all NPC's to have acces to it, but don't know how to do this. Also, are the interrupt overrides predefined? Can a Spectator Package only run if there is combat???

The spectator interrupt overrides only occur during combat (http://www.creationkit.com/AI_Packages_Tab). The only way to dynamically push packages onto an NPC's package stack is to use quest aliases. Once an actor is in an alias all you have to do is add packages to the alias and those packages will be pushed onto the top of the actor's package stack. My attempt to help you with your LOS script should prove useful now! Here is what you should do (I will put it in a spoiler as it is mostly copypasta from your other thread):

Spoiler

Create a quest and in the quest data tab tick the Start Game Enabled box (it would be best to start the quest using the Story Manager for a number of reasons but for the moment try this), untick the Run Once box and give the quest a priority of 99. In the quest aliases tab create a new reference alias and tick the Optional, Find Matching Reference, In Loaded Area and Closest check boxes. In the match conditions tab create a condition that uses the condition function IsActor on the subject == 1. In the packages tab, add your package. In the scripts tab attach a script like this one:

Spoiler

ScriptName MyScript extends ReferenceAliasReferenceAlias Property MyRefAlias autoActor MyActorEvent OnInit()		 RegisterForSingleUpdate(1.0)EndEventEvent OnUpdate()		 MyActor=MyRefAlias.GetReference() as Actor		 MyActor.EvaluatePackage()		 RegisterForSingleUpdate(3.0)EndEvent

Actors tend to evaluate their packages every 10 seconds by default but this script forces them to evaluate their packages every 3 seconds. Now duplicate this alias until you have 15 aliases. Don't forget to set the properties properly. Remember that you must point each RefAlias property at the alias itself.

What this quest is doing is it will search the loaded area (5x5 cells surronding the player) for actors and will give the closest 15 actors in this area an alias (the alias gives these actors the package). Now create a second quest the same way as the first (you should refine this later by using the story manager to start these quests). You will also need to attach a script to this second quest in the scripts tab. This script should look like this:

Spoiler

ScriptName MyRefreshAliasScript extends QuestQuest Property MyFirstQuest  autoEvent OnInit()		 RegisterForSingleUpdate(1.0)EndEventEvent OnUpdate()		 MyFirstQuest.Stop()		 MyFirstQuest.Start()		 RegisterForSingleUpdate(10.0)EndEvent

This script will constantly stop and start the first quest which will refresh the first quest's aliases periodically.

Make sure your package has the conditions GetDetected==1 running on the subject and whatever condition you require on the player (check if armor in a specific slot is equipped, is there a condition that will do this?).

[Joanne]

Does GetActorOwner() actually work? Is there any other way to detect if an item in the player's inventory is stolen?

[Courtney Foren]

Thank you very much, Zartar.

I will try your method. I'm actually going to scrap the LOS spell and go with your method also for LOS checks. It might be more tedious to set up with so many aliases, but it sure seems more stable and easier to use. My LOS spell tends to misfire way too often, and it grabs everything on it's way, including stuff like dead chicken which I still couldn't filter out...

Also, I now understand better the method you described in my other thread, and I'll be going back to it for sure, so you did help there too!

So... On to rewriting my whole mod from scratch again, for the 4th time...

[Stace]

I've solved my first problem but I'm still having trouble figuring out how to prevent the player from absorbing the dragons souls.

...
Dragon dies -> dragonactorscript fires OnDeath -> MQKillDragonScript fires DeathSequence (timed effects) -> WIFunctionsScript fires PlayerIsCurrentlyAbsorbingPower (dragon death dialogue is made available) -> Dragon Souls is incremented -> WIFunctionsScript fires PlayerIsDoneAbsorbingPower (dragon death dialogue is disabled).

[Life long Observer]

this one for checking that i have a normal egg, the quest its meant to be as follows

Talk to npc
She request a Chicken egg (the ingridient)
once i have the egg i have to go to deliver the egg to the npc
the NPC will trade my chicken egg for a hatchable egg
after 3 days the egg will hatch and spawn a chicken wich we have to tal to to complete the quest

Edit:

Here are a couple of photos for better understanding

http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i437/necrogaz/Untitled1_zps62e68762.png
http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i437/necrogaz/Untitled2_zpsa0d1f121.png

No help yet? :S

[Amanda Leis]

Sounds like the PSCs weren't packed in the BSA? If that's the case, we can only hope the next CK update will furnish them like was done for Dawnguard.

Oh, I haven't unpacked the Hearthfire bsa - didn't realise I had to. I'll do that - thanks.

[Crystal Clarke]

right, this is bugging me like mad.
I have the player come into a room, where there will be several nordic sconces that should fire up, with a few seconds intervals (ie set 1 fires 1 second after triggered, set 2 fires 2 seconds, ect) but i can not for the life of me figure that bit out.
I can make the light turn on when the player uses an activator but i can not rewrite it to work of a trigger box, let alone make the FX thing turn from a grey ash to a burning fire, Best i can figure is some kind of enable/disable script, and have been looking into that in the standard scripts but cant seam to get those to work proberly, let alone with a time delay.

Anyone who can help with some sort of script or modified script or basic script that i can build on, and some info on how i set it up (linkref, parent or otherwise)
Thank you

[Danielle Brown]

Hey, I had a previous question here that seems to have gotten a little buried:

What is the ini edit for forcing skyrim to draw objects near to the camera?

For example when in 3rd person and free camera mode, if I were to zoom in on the player's (or any actor's) face when I get reasonably close it turns invisible. I see in most ENB post screens of the camera very close to certain objects. How do they achieve this?

New question: When naming your property's in Papyrus (eg. ObjectReference MyProperty Auto) can the actual name of "MyProperty" cause any issues if its shared or happens to be exactly the same as in other scripts?
I've been a bit paranoid and prefixed all my properties, the downside to this is that I can't auto-fill. This is pretty minor, but still.

[Ashley Tamen]

New question: When naming your property's in Papyrus (eg. ObjectReference MyProperty Auto) can the actual name of "MyProperty" cause any issues if its shared or happens to be exactly the same as in other scripts?

You don't have to worry about that. You could have a gazillion scripts, for instance, with PlayerREF properties and the properties won't conflict.

[Miranda Taylor]

I'm not sure how to get one script of mine to manipulate property's in another?

Script is here and is still rough draft and not quite complete:

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Scriptname MDHRelockScript extends ObjectReference {Re-locks a container for the player to train lockpicking against};simply re-locking the container will only give the player experience from the first unlock.Actor Property PlayerRef autoObjectReference Property CopyMe autoObjectReference Property TargetMarker AutoInt OneCopyEvent OnLoad()  BlockActivation()EndEventEvent OnActivate(ObjectReference akActionRef)BlockActivation()  If akActionRef == PlayerRef    If OneCopy < 1     ObjectReference Dupe = TargetMarker.PlaceAtMe(CopyMe)     OneCopy = 1     Dupe.SetScale(0.0)     Dupe.Activate(akActionRef)endif  endifEndEvent;=============;SecondScript;=============;;Event OnLockStateChanged(Dupe)  ;fires when player unlocks container. Ignore syntax. How awesome if I could fire this from main script though?; Lock()       ;prevents container from opening after successful lockpick; Delete()	   ;wont delete whilst still property. Need to clear it here or the 1st script could check OneCopy for clearing the property somehow.; OneCopy = 0;EndEvent

You should be able to see what I'm trying to do. If not I'll be happy to clarify.

[Alexis Estrada]

I've solved my first problem but I'm still having trouble figuring out how to prevent the player from absorbing the dragons souls.

Question is cancelled; I've found the solution by myself.

[Ray]

Did you make any other changes in the CK after you hit the Ignore button? I find it only actually updates the file if I go into a cell, move something, save and exit with the bits Ignored that I want gone. The next time I load the file, they are indeed gone.

Now it works. Great. Thanks.

[Siobhan Thompson]

Is it possible to reference an alias inside it's own script (extends ReferenceAlias) without a property? Something like Self.somefunction...

I have several aliases that all need to run the same script, the only thing that changes is the property, as it has to point to itself... I don't want to create 15 scripts that are basically exactly the same and I can't find anything in the wiki...

[Sophie Morrell]

How can I make it so that this furniture model has it's entry points from behind and not the front?
http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m57/will_cuthill/Furniture01.png?t=1349608620

[Jose ordaz]

Is it possible to reference an alias inside it's own script (extends ReferenceAlias) without a property? Something like Self.somefunction...

ObjectReference kSelf = GetReference()kSelf.DoSomething()

...or if an actor...

Actor kSelf = GetReference() As ActorkSelf.DoSomething()

If not referencing itself more than once, there's no need to cache kSelf and you could just...

GetReference().DoSomething()

...or...

(GetReference() As Actor).DoSomething()

[Phoenix Draven]

Wow, I did not know that. Are references in an alias flagged as persistent after the quest is stopped?

[David John Hunter]

Are references in an alias flagged as persistent after the quest is stopped?

If the only thing making it persistent is that it's filling an alias, it will cease to be persistent when the quest stops or the alias is cleared.

[SamanthaLove]

nvm

[m Gardner]

Great! Thank you JustinOther, makes it less of a script mess for me! Very useful...

[EDIT]: By the way... I never really took this topic seriously because I thought it was messy... Now I am really appreciating its use and functionality. It is giving me a lot of answers fast and is very friendly towards newbies or even stupid questions. I'm learning a lot. Thanks to all helpful people in here and great topic...

[Javaun Thompson]

What is the ini edit for forcing skyrim to draw objects near to the camera?

For example when in 3rd person and free camera mode, if I were to zoom in on the player's (or any actor's) face when I get reasonably close it turns invisible. I see in most ENB post screens of the camera very close to certain objects. How do they achieve this?

This is done by changing fNearDistance in your Skyrim.ini. Default value is 15.000

[Pete Schmitzer]

(How) can I compile a single script that I've edited without opening the CK?

[Clea Jamerson]

(How) can I compile a single script that I've edited without opening the CK?

Sublime Text 2 or Notepad++, once set up, can compile. I never use the CK for scripting...

[des lynam]

Sublime Text 2 or Notepad++, once set up, can compile. I never use the CK for scripting...

I don't write them in the CK, but somehow I missed the setup for using the compiler with Notepad++. I found the instructions now though.

[xxLindsAffec]

I'm having issues with what appears to be corruptions occurring with my exterior world spaces. What happens is when I use the coc command to go to one of the interior cells, and then go out into the custom exterior world space, the terrain is broken apart into floating separated pieces, making navigation through the environment impossible, and if it is observed in the CK, there doesn't seem to be any way to correct the separated segments. Has anyone seen something like this happen before, and if so, is there any way to remedy the situation?

I should also mention that the terrain is showing up fine in the CK, and with saves that are in a cell directly connected to the new world space.