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I'm not getting any traces from the OnSpellCast (not even the "Entered spell cast event." trace). OnSpellCast() is a function from ObjectReference script. Rather than putting your script on the "player" actor alias, try putting it on the playerREF alias. - in your Quest-Alias tab, choose "Specific Reference". In the "Cell" field select "(any)". Wait a sec and "PlayerRef ('Player')" should appear in the Ref field. CLICK ON IT. Then click OK. You should now see "Ref: 'PlayerRef' (00000014) to NPC_ 'Player' (00000007)" as the reference. Then try the script on this alias and see if OnSpellCast will now fire. If it doesn't, then I give up :P Alright, I'll try that. So should I have my script extend ObjectReference then rather than ReferenceAlias, or just keep it to ReferenceAlias? Would that mess up the "OnPlayerLoadGame" event? Thanks for the tips though, I'll check it out! I'm wanting to retain the effects while I'm in Vampire Lord form (makes sense for me to how I want it.. I'm in Vampire form so might as well have the effects apply), but not while in human form. And to be frank, I didn't really think of editing the spells themselves lol. I suppose I could check into that, and add a condition to not apply the spell if I'm going from VL > human form. Thanks for the idea, I'll look into that if what steve suggested doens't work. Would I just make a script that does the checks, go into CK, and edit the spells and hook the script onto them? Or is there a different way to do it? Edit: Ok, I changed to the PlayerRef like you said steve, and the event fires now! It wasn't working at first, but I just added an additional wait in the script. It was firing too soon, and removing the spells too early, because the Revert Form adds them back as well (was looking into the files that mathern mentioned, and I saw that they were being re-added in that script). So I just added a wait for 6 seconds (because that's about how long the animation takes to start/finish), and it worked perfectly. Here's the final version of the script: Scriptname RemoveVampireWeaknesses extends ReferenceAlias Spell property WeaknessToFire auto Spell property WeaknessToSun auto Spell property RevertVLForm auto Event OnPlayerLoadGame() Debug.Trace("RemoveVampireWeaknesses: Loaded game...spells should now be removed") if GetActorRef().HasSpell(WeaknessToFire) GetActorRef().RemoveSpell(WeaknessToFire) endIf if GetActorRef().HasSpell(WeaknessToSun) GetActorRef().RemoveSpell(WeaknessToSun) endIf EndEvent AUTO STATE WAITING Event OnSpellCast(Form akSpell) Debug.Trace("RemoveVampireWeaknesses: Entered spell cast event.") Spell spellCast = akSpell as Spell if spellCast != none && spellCast == RevertVLForm utility.wait(6) ;Wait for 6 seconds for Revert to finish its stuff Debug.Trace("RemoveVampireWeaknesses: Revert form was cast... spells should be removed?") GoToState("DONE") ; prevent further calls while we're in the While loop while GetActorRef().HasSpell(WeaknessToFire) || GetActorRef().HasSpell(WeaknessToSun) if GetActorRef().HasSpell(WeaknessToFire) GetActorRef().RemoveSpell(WeaknessToFire) endIf if GetActorRef().HasSpell(WeaknessToSun) GetActorRef().RemoveSpell(WeaknessToSun) endIf utility.wait(0.02) ; latent function, gives other threads a chance to jump the queue endWhile Debug.Trace("Weakness to Fire and Weakness to Sun successfully removed!") endIf GoToState("WAITING") ; re-enable the OnSpellcast event endEvent ENDSTATE STATE DONE ENDSTATE May do some more changing in the script to include adding the werewolf effects/VL effects if the player does not already have them. This way it's more of a standalone-mod rather than depending on the effects of another mod. Thanks a lot everybody, I really do appreciate it!

The active effects remain listed in the 'Active Effect' screen, so it seems like it does nothing. I'll have to look into these. I was just trying to a simple mod, but it seems like it's becoming not as simple as I thought lol. Thing is, I already gave myself the abilities and such for Werewolf, so I have those abilities/effects and such. The perks work when I transform into Beast Form as well. So everything works for both Vamp / Werewolf (except possible quest lines and such). I'm fine with being considered a vampire for now, so not a big deal there. I just wanted to try to get rid of the Fire/Sun weakness effects. I'm not getting any traces from the OnSpellCast (not even the "Entered spell cast event." trace).

Thanks for the help, steve, really appreciate it. The trouble I mean I'm having is that its still not working for the OnSpellCast. I cast Vampire Lord to turn into the VL, and I get the weakness to fire and Weakness to Sun effects back (this is fine... IMO more "realistic" since I'm in a vampire form). However, the problem is, that when I cast Revert Form, and turn into a human, I still have the Weakness to Fire and Weakness to Sun effects. I wonder if I'm even using the right spell to hook into in the Creation Kit... Is there a way to properly find out which spell it actually is? Tested your revised script (I do like the edits you made to the LoadGame event to make sure the player actually has the spell before trying to remove it... wasn't sure how to check for that), and it's still doing the same thing that I described above.

Great, thanks for the tip! That seems to have fixed the OnPlayerLoadGame event. Still having trouble with the OnSpellCast, however. Could it be because I'm trying to remove the active effects too soon, and it could possibly be getting re-added when I become human again? Would there be a way around that (i.e. another way to invoke the remove spell sections, after the Revert spell is cast)? Or a way to wait until after the spell has been cast maybe? Edit: tried using a counter in regards to the the spell cast time. Didn't work.

So since summer break just started for me, I decided to get into Skyrim modding a bit. Quick background: made a "Lycanpire" character after I completed the Dawnguard's main quest and became a vampire lord. Still wanted vampire perks, but I also wanted my previous Werewolf perks... mainly wanted to remove Weakness to Fire and Weakness to Sunlight. Was able to make a batch file to remove the active effects easily enough. But, every time I transformed from Vampire Lord back to human, I would have to re-run my batch file to get rid of the previously mentioned 2 effects. So, being the programmer I am, I figured I could just make a script to execute automatically whenever I loaded the game and whenever I revert from Vampire Lord form back to human. So I made a script, and compiled it, and tried to figure out how to attach it to my player whenever 2 events occur. Here's where it's getting hairy for me, since I'm new to Papyrus & the Creation Kit. Here's my script (not sure if this is the proper way to do the script, but hey, I'm learning): Scriptname RemoveVampireWeaknesses extends Alias Spell property WeaknessToFire auto Spell property WeaknessToSun auto Spell property RevertVLForm auto Event OnPlayerLoadGame() Debug.Trace("loaded game...spells should be removed?") Game.GetPlayer().RemoveSpell(WeaknessToFire) Game.GetPlayer().RemoveSpell(WeaknessToSun) EndEvent Event OnSpellCast(Form akSpell) Spell spellCast = akSpell as Spell Debug.Trace("Entered spell cast event.") if spellCast && spellCast == RevertVLForm Debug.Trace("revert form was cast... spells should be removed?") Game.GetPlayer().RemoveSpell(WeaknessToFire) Game.GetPlayer().RemoveSpell(WeaknessToSun) endIf endEvent And then in Creation Kit, I made a new "quest" (I've heard this is how I should attach things to my player that should be automatically run... please correct me if I'm wrong because this is just what I found during some extensive Googling). Here's the steps I went through in Creation Kit: Loaded Dawnguard file. Created a new object under Quests with the following properties: Form ID: RemoveVampireWeaknessesQuest Name: Remove Vampire WeaknessesEvent: NoneType: NoneStart Game Enabled: CheckedRun Once: UncheckedThat's all I changed from the defaults. I then went to Quest Aliases, and added a new Alias property with the name "Remove Effects". I kept all the defaults, except for I checked "Reuse in quest" option. Under "Fill Type" I selected "Unique Actor" and chose "Player" I then added my script through this Alias window, and attached the properties to what I thought were the correct spells. RevertVLForm attached to DLC1RevertForm spellWeaknessToFire attached to AbVampire04b spell WeaknessToSun attached to VampireSunDamage04 spellSaved the file, and enabled it in the Data Files section. Ran the game, and the active effects were still there on game load. So I tried transforming / reverting to human... still there. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Enabled Papyrus debugging logs, and originally I had my script header set to "Extends ObjectReference" but I was getting errors about not being the same base type, so I changed the script to "Extends Alias" to see if that worked. It got rid of the errors in Papyrus, but the script still doesn't seem to be actually working. I also don't see my Debug trace messages being outputted in the log file either, so I'm guessing the events aren't actually being hit... so I'm not sure if I'm even using the correct events or not. I know using the player.removeSpell with the ID's for AbVampire04b and VampireSunDamage04 work fine through the console, so I'm assuming my events in my script just aren't being hit. tl;dr: I'm a newb to Papyrus / modding, and not sure if what I'm doing is correct or not. Thanks a bunch in advance, I really appreciate it.