Script command to count number of actors in current cell?

[FishBiter]

I need to make a script count the number of actors in the current cell the player is in, and I am wondering if there is a command available for that. It would be really helpful if it could actually count the number of one specific type of actor.

 

 

Basically something like this

 

Set NumActors to (this is where the command would go)

 

If NumActors < 6

Do this

ElseIf NumActorse <= 6

Do Nothing

EndIf

 

 

So basically the script would do one thing if there are more than 6 actors in the current cell, and something else if there's less. Again, it would be really helpful if it could count a specific type of actor (for example, radroaches).

Edited January 12, 2014 by FishBiter

[rickerhk]

You can use http://fose.silverlock.org/fose_command_doc.html#GetNumRefs with a ref type of 200.

Or you can use a touch spell for actors if you aren't using FOSE

[FishBiter]

So then GetNumRefs is what I need, but trying to use it I'm getting nothing.

 

 

If GetNumRefs 43 >= 3

Set SpawnIt to 0

Else

Set SpawnIt to 1

EndIf

So I thought that that bit right there would set SpawnIt to 0 if there were 3 or more creatures in the current cell. That didn't happen though.

Basically I'm trying to change the Zombie Apocalypse script so that it doesn't keep spawning zombies if there is a certain number of them in the current cell already.

[rickerhk]

Then I would use a quest script and a REFWalk for what you want to do. If there is more than one zombie type, put them in a form list. Otherwise you can just use GetIsID

scn  MyZombieControlQuestScript





short iZombieCount

ref rActorREF

short iEnableSpawn





;Quest delay 1-3 seconds, start game enabled





BEGIN GameMode





Label 10

   set iZombieCount to 0

   set rActorREF to GetFirstREF 200 1 ;Actors, and if outside - current cell plus 8 surrounding cells





Label 20

   if (rActorREF)

      if (rActorREF.IsInList MyZombieActorFormList) ;Or just use rActorREF.GetIsID ZombieBaseEditorID if there is only one zombie type

        set iZombieCount to iZombieCount + 1

      endif

      set rActorREF to Pencil01

      set rActorREF to GetNextREF

      Goto 20

   endif





if (iZombieCount >= 50)

   set iEnableSpawn to 0

else

   set iEnableSpawn to 1

endif





Goto 10





END

[FishBiter]

All right, so I implemented that script. Made the quest, the form list, and copy pasted your script right in. The only thing I changed was the last part, making iEnableSpawn into a Global so that I could call it in the other script that spawns the zombies.

 

Now whenever I try to go into an exterior where there would be zombies, the game freezes.

Edited January 13, 2014 by FishBiter

[rickerhk]

oops :facepalm:

Get rid of the Label 10 and Goto 10 lines.