Teleport Spell? Or: "Beam Me Up, Scotty"

[BlueSteelRanger]

Cell reference? This bit? "BSRMarkerteleportHomeRef"

[Oblivionaddicted]

Give a same reference to your marker and copy it your script after player.moveto

[BlueSteelRanger]

Ah, that part. ::checks:: Yep, it matches. I even double checked just now, though I likely will again since technically it's late for me in my new time zone, haha.

[GamerRick]

What you are trying to do is simple, which means you are making a dumb mistake somewhere. My guess would be that you setup the spell incorrectly, assuming you figured out how to add an XMarkerHeading and how to give it its own RefID.

 

My recommendation is that you find another spell that also just executes a script and compare your's to it.

 

The only other idea I can think of is that you take and post a screen-shot of the pop-up windows for your spell and the XmarkerHeading item in the CS, and give us the details of every setting and how you set it.

 

Other than that NO ONE can tell what you did wrong when all you say is "it didn't take".

Edited April 21, 2023 by GamerRick

[RomanR]

If teleporting to your location isn't working, you can practice with teleporting to markers defined in Oblivion. For example this spell script will take you to XMarker in Testing Hall:

scn RomRTeleportTestScript
ref place

begin ScriptEffectStart
	set place to "244eb" ;straight ID form of XMarker reference in Testing Hall
	MoveTo place ;ommiting reference before command will assign the one which spell hit
	;MoveTo 244eb ;this single command will work too
end

I'm assuming that your spell is defined right - it contains one Scripted Effect which bears this spell script, and Scripted Effect is set to Self with Duration 1. When you manage this spell to make it work, you can change "244eb" to any editor ID of your reference you like. However your editor ID of reference must be unique to make it work.

[GamerRick]

I found a spell that works the way you want your's to work. Spell: DAHermaeusTrap

 

Every time you cast it, it just fires a script to do its dirty work.

Edited April 22, 2023 by GamerRick

[BlueSteelRanger]

Hmm. Let me see if I can provide some visual references here. I admit, without my guide, I have to try to describe things verbally.

 

Okay. So. I have some Spell Tomes to teach spells. Four of them work perfectly -- teaching non-scripted things like Invisibility or Cure Disease.

 

So this thing won't let me upload the bloody images into the forum (ugh, sightie oriented....). I've uploaded four images to my User Images section, if those might assist.

 

Anyway, the book simply won't teach the spell at all.

The spell is targeted to Self, has the one Scripted Effect and its Duration is 2 seconds.

My apologies for the late reply here. Let me navigate and listen to these other replies of you all's here.

[RomanR]

I made working example which is attached to "Guide to Cheydinhal" book and this book will teach you a spell when opened, if you choose so. Unfortunately I couldn't find a way to detect when player opens a book in inventory, so I cheated using OBSE command. Here it is:

scn RomRBookTeachsSpell 
; Guide to Cheydinhal book will teach you spell when opened
short choice
short wantteach
short showbox 
short doOnce
ref me

begin OnActivate
	if GetActionRef == player	
		;print "Activated by player."
		if player.HasSpell RomRPushSpell == 0
			set wantteach to 1
			set showbox to 1
			set choice to -1
		endif
		Activate
	else
		Activate
	endif
end

begin MenuMode 
	if MenuMode 1026
		; this part is for detecting particular book when opened by player
		if wantteach == 0 && doOnce == 0 && player.HasSpell RomRPushSpell == 0
			let me := GetActiveMenuObject 1026 ;OBSE command
			if me == Book1CheapGuideCheydinhal ; "Guide to Cheydinhal" book
				set wantteach to 1
				set showbox to 1
				set choice to -1
				set doOnce to 1
				;print "Yes this is a book."
			endif
		endif
		if wantteach != 0
			if showbox != 0
				MessageBox "As you opened this book, you feel as it wants to give you something. Will you accept?","Yes","No"
				set showbox to 0
			endif
			set choice to GetButtonPressed
			if choice == 0 ;yes
				player.AddSpell RomRPushSpell 
			endif
			if choice != -1
				set wantteach to 0
				set doOnce to 1
			endif
		endif
	elseif MenuMode 1026 == 0 && MenuMode 1001 == 0 ;player selected an answer and closed a book
		set doOnce to 0		
	endif
end

Edited April 22, 2023 by RomanR

[qwertyasdfgh]

OnActivate block on a book will only run if book is read from the world. For it to work from inventory you need to use OnEquip.

If you need a working example, just look at any script from official Spell Tomes DLC.

Edited April 22, 2023 by qwertyasdfgh

[Oblivionaddicted]

OnActivate block on a book will only run if book is read from the world. For it to work from inventory you need to use OnEquip.

If you need a working example, just look at any script from official Spell Tomes DLC.

You need to use OnAdd with a book, OnEquip only works for the armor, clothes or weapons you equip. https://wiki.nexusmods.com/index.php/An_introduction_to_Oblivion_scripting