I want to be able to specify that a npc can only wear certain clothes while inside a city, in this case, Whiterun. Is there a way to specify a location as NOT Whiterun? In other words, inside the city they wear this outfit, outside the gates they change to a different default outfit. Thanks.

As I have it now, the npc will change clothes when they step outside Breezehome and that works fine, I just want them to be battle ready when they go outside the gate.

GetInCurrentLoc != WhiterunLocation

however, someparts outside of the city are considered Whiterun location i think (like the stable and just outside the gates)

if you want to restrict it just to the city border, you may want to use GetInWorldspace instead

Lots of ways to do it.

The simplest is probably to have script on the Alias (or actor, if you are not using Aliases ... though you should be) that changes the NPC outfit when it enters a specific location.

http://www.creationkit.com/IsInLocation_-_ObjectReference

(Look also at the link on that page to "Location")


http://www.creationkit.com/OnLocationChange_-_Actor - might also help

I'm already doing that. I was asking how to reference NOT Whiterun so that I don't have to test on every single location to decide what to wear. Thanks!

if you are using papyrus instead of the built in condition functions all you need is an exclamation point to invert the condition

If !npc.IsInLocation(Whiterun)

translates to : if the npc is not in whiterun

Thanks for the suggestions.

My script works but the problem is, it doesn't switch clothes until you go through a door not in the Whiterun location. FYI, apparently the Whiterun Stables are not part of WhiterunLocation because she will switch clothes moving through that door. My simple script is...

Scriptname ActorSwitchOutfitsOutsideWhiterun extends Actor  {Forces an Actor to switch Outfits when entering and leaving a specific Location.}Weapon Property IronDagger  AutoLocation Property ChangeOutfitWhiterunLocation  Auto  {The location at which to change outfits}Outfit Property OutsideWhiterunOutfit  Auto  {Outfit to wear outside the Location}auto STATE waitingEvent OnLocationChange(Location akOldLoc, Location akNewLoc)	if (akOldLoc == ChangeOutfitWhiterunLocation)		gotoState("waiting")		Self.SetOutfit(OutsideWhiterunOutfit)		Self.AddItem(IronDagger, 1)		Self.RemoveItem(IronDagger, 1)	endifendEventendStateSTATE done; do nothingendState

Anyway to reference the actual gate(s) of Whiterun? Is OnOpen something I could use? I'm trying to look it up now. I'm not really a papyrus scripter. Now I'm looking at OnAreaTransitionCheck but I don't know how to use it and haven't found an example yet.

Now I'm looking at what Amethyst Deceiver said GetInWorldspace but I don't know how to use that either.

The other alternative that I could live with is, if she just changed clothes when the npc became my follower. Any ideas?

Did you spawn a distance away from whiterun and walk in, or just spawn at whiterun stables If I remember right, oldlocation does not update until you have been to your second place ... because it is NULL the first time you spawn?

Also, it is not instant ... did you wander around whiterun for a moment or two, or just dive in the first door?


Finally - I think the door will have an OnActivate Event, so you could use that - make the door an AliasReference in your quest and put the onactivate event on the Alias

http://www.creationkit.com/Door

I went in and out of the doors a few times because I noticed the behavior you are talking about, that you have to go through the door twice.

I asked because I may have a related issue ... I made a seperate post about that. I'll post back in here if someone solves my issue.