SSE Need help with creating custom ability for armor set

[gunnarr810]

Greetings,

 

I am trying to create a custom ability for an armor set. What I am trying to accomplish is something similar in concept to the Ahzidal's Genius effect where wearing "X" number of pieces grants you an ability. I'll do my best to try and explain and what I tested.

 

Ahzidal Genius effect is located under "Ability" as DLC2dunKolbjornSetAbility. It applies +10 to enchanting if its conditions are met. The condition is:

 

WornApparelHasKeywordCount Keyword: DLC2dunKolbjornAhzidalItem == 4 Run on Subject.

 

Sounds simple. In order to get my ability I need to create/assign specific keyword to the armor items, create an ability with the magic effect I want, apply conditions to the magic effect that only allow it to function when the armor with the keywords is equipped.

 

I created the exact same conditions for my armor set as the Ahzidal's but still cannot get it to work in game.

 

My steps were as follows:

 

-Created new keyword and assigned it to my items

-Created a magic effect that mirrors Ahzidals in everyway. Same boxes checked and that sort of thing. Even tested with the exact same bonus of fortify enchanting.

-Created an ability that applies the magic effect and applied the conditionals related to equipped keywords and mirrored all other aspects exactly as Ahzidal

 

Still nothing.

 

However, to test again I instead applied the keyword DLC2dunKolbjornAhzidalItem to my armor set. Now when equipped I gain the Ahzidal Genius ability. So from what I can tell, when I created my new ability there is some value somewhere in the CK that I cannot find that needs to checked or added.

 

I would appreciate any help that could be offered.

[theblackpixel]

Did you apply the ability to your character? That does not happen automatically, Dragonborn runs a setup quest to automatically apply the Ahzidal ability to the player. The ability is essentially just a check, if you do not have it, the game will not check whether or not you are in fact wearing a matching set.

Make a backup and try adding your ability to the NordRace race or whatever race you use for testing, then equip your items and see what that does.

[gunnarr810]

Thank you,

 

Adding it to the race does work. I was thinking that it was related to a quest check but wasn't sure. I'll be working more on the quest related things as I would rather that be how it is acquired then by editing player races.

 

Appreciate the help theblackpixel

[theblackpixel]

No problem. You indeed do not want to edit racial abilities for a multitude of reasons, that's why I recommended making a backup first, it is merely a quick and reliable way to test whether or not your abilities work or if there is a problem in the way you are attempting to apply them. A simple quest adding the ability that runs once and starts enabled should do the trick then.

 

Good luck with your work