Issue with scripts when converting an ESP to an ESM

[Otellino]

Hey all,

I finally finished up the final version of my New Vegas mod "For The Enclave", and when I went through FNVEdit to convert it to a .esm as I have done with the previous two releases, I tested the whole thing as usual to be sure. Everything from the previous versions still worked fine, all quests and scripts fired fine. However, in the final part there is a section where the player walks through a big hallway, with trigger zones that enable lights when the player walks through.

When the player walked through it while it was a .esp, it worked perfectly fine. However now that it is a .esm, it doesn't seem to do anything at all. Here is the script:

ScriptName ZZEnclaveMQ05LightEnablerFinaleSCRIPT

Begin OnTriggerEnter Player

Disable
PlaySound OBJTurretGeneratorDisable
ZZEnclaveMQ05Boss1REF.StartCombat Player

End

The lights are set to use the trigger as the enable parent, with their state set to opposite. As I said, this worked fine when it was a .esp, but not literally does nothing as a .esm. If I convert it back to a .esp, it'll work fine again. Any ideas as to what may be happening and how to fix it?

Thanks

[Belthan]

Similar issue in this thread, the resolution and/or some of the other suggestions there may help.

 

http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/1366212-strange-issue-with-a-script/

[Otellino]

I've looked through that thread, but I'm still not too sure what to do. I also saw it's to do with refs, but I thought that if there's a problem with the ref, it would still at least play the sound in the script?

[Hopper31]

Something similar happened to me once and I think that the problem was that the trigger was being disabled before the rest of the script was fired. Try this instead:

ScriptName ZZEnclaveMQ05LightEnablerFinaleSCRIPT

Begin OnTriggerEnter Player

PlaySound OBJTurretGeneratorDisable
ZZEnclaveMQ05Boss1REF.StartCombat Player
Disable

End
 

That may fix it.

Edited March 1, 2014 by Hopper31

[Otellino]

Hey Hopper31,

Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't seem to have made any difference at all. :/ Once again it seems to work fine as a .esp, but when converted to a .esm it seems to do nothing.

[rickerhk]

Make sure the trigger, lights, and ZZEnclaveMQ05Boss1REF have the 'persistent' box checked. And use a brand new save that never 'saw' the mod as an esp.

[Otellino]

Hey Rickerhk,

Thanks for the suggestion - The persistent box on all of them has been checked (I un-checked and checked again to make sure), and I tried by using "coc" straight from the main menu, but sadly still no dice. :/

[Belthan]

You need to check every REF in the script, not just in the OnTriggerEnter block. If the code tries to use even one non-persistent ref ANYWHERE in the script, NONE of the script will ever fire. I once had a single line of code in the GameMode block of a fairly big script that was making use of a non-persistent REF. It compiled and worked just fine as an ESP, but when I converted it to ESM the OnActivate block wasn't firing and the default activation for the object was happening. I beat my head against the wall for quite a while, until I figured out the problem wasn't any of the REFs in the OnActivate block, it was that one REF in the GameMode block that prevented it from working as an ESM.