Help: xEdit script to mark multiple records as "Deleted"

[aurreth]

Trying to do a mass cell cleanup, and apparently there is no way to set the Deleted record flag on multiple records at once.  There is a stock script to mark them Persistent or not Persistent, but to mark Deleted I'm having to do them one at a time.

Does anyone have a script which will set the Deleted flag on multiple things at once?

[aurreth]

Correction, me being stupid.  Not "Deleted", "IsDisabled"

[LarannKiar]

This would set the InitiallyDisabled record flag on the selected REFR and ACHR records (comment out the Signature filter accordingly).

Notes:

   - References whose IsDisabled() state have already been saved in a save game cannot be disabled mid-playthrough by changing the record flag because the engine favors the save.

   - I don't remember exactly which refs but I think the ones that Disable() or Enable() have been called on and maybe persistent refs are saved.

unit UserScript;

var
  Count: integer;
  
function Process(e: IInterface): integer;
var
  S: string;
begin
  Result := 0;
  
  S := Signature(e);

  // Signature filter
  if 
    (S <> 'REFR') and
    (S <> 'ACHR')
  then
    Exit;

  // Notify us
  AddMessage('Disabling: ' + Name(e));
  
  // Disabled
  SetIsInitiallyDisabled(e, True);

  // Count how many records are being disabled
  Inc(Count);
end;

function Finalize: integer;
begin
  AddMessage('Disabled: ' + IntToStr(Count));
end;

end.

 

Edited January 21 by LarannKiar

[aurreth]

1 hour ago, LarannKiar said:

This would set the InitiallyDisabled record flag on the selected REFR and ACHR records (comment out the Signature filter accordingly).

Notes:

   - References whose IsDisabled() state have already been saved in a save game cannot be disabled mid-playthrough by changing the record flag because the engine favors the save.

   - I don't remember exactly which refs but I think the ones that Disable() or Enable() have been called on and maybe persistent refs are saved.

Thanks, appreciate it.  I was taking a break from stellar engineering and cleaning up some ship habs, because unlike Bethesda I'm not a complete and utter slob, and because I also understand that in an environment likely to lose artificial gravity from time to time you don't leave random junk lying around unsecured so that it becomes a flying hazard to personnel and important equipment.  Setting those objects to IsDisabled does indeed remove them mid-playthrough.

Is that Pascal?  I learned that forever ago, when it was supposed to replace FORTRAN, but I thought it had fallen out of favor.  Not that it matters, I suck as a programmer lol  I can smash together crude bash scripts to automate things if I really need to, but that's about it.  Still, kinda surprised xEdit doesn't use python.

[LarannKiar]

It's Pascal yes. Here're the xEdit functions. If they're just disabled the game shouldn't regenerate them either, I think.   Probably only after editing the ship.

Edited January 21 by LarannKiar