Hey guys n gals!
I have made a script that does stuff when hit by a hostile spell. It works all gravy, however I need to alter it so that it only fires when its a hostile spell within the spell category (so no poisons or diseases etc). Can anyone help me out with this? I am gonig to take a look at the wiki too, but its always good to ask teh community too

Checking keywords with HasKeyword is probably a good bet. I'd think all poisons should share a keyword, diseases and enchantments too.
e.g.

!aksource.HasKeyword(poisonkeyword)

so

   if (akSource as spell).isHostile()       !aksource.HasKeyword(poisonkeyword)          Do stuff

then stuff would only be done if you were hit by a hostile, non poison spell effect

I took a look at them last night, and I think that nothing has keywords Mighty frustrating, I am not that keen to be editing all these spells, potentialy making my mod compeltly incompatible with any other spell mod out there =(

curses!

could try make a formlist with all the spells you want in it then compare to incoming spell with HasForm

I've spent all day learning all about Formlists

I am (pretty) confident in saying: Use A FormList For This

Just create a theSpellsIAmInterestedIn List and drag the appropriate spells into it, then search the list - when spell encountered - to see if it is present

(FormLists, they're the future, man )

Here's the topic I made a couple of days ago: Check Shana's answer and link

Everything in this game has keywords.

The keywords are located on the base magic effect. In the case of poisons, the keyword you're looking for is "MagicAlchHarmful"

I just had a look, diseases have nothing under the keyword (nor does their associated magical effect), nor do the poisons encounteresd in the wild, such as the frostvenom spiders.

I may take a look into the formlists although this will still not help with mod compatability =(

if only i could do a "editorID contains poison/ disease" =(