Changing Stats on 1 Weapon

[Varicide]

Hi. I'm trying to make a script that can change the stats/properties of one weapon. But instead, it changes all weapons of the class. Is there some way to only change one weapon at once? Thanks!

 

scn testscript

short button

ref rWeapon

float fDmg

begin OnEquip

set rWeapon to GetHotkeyItem 1

;set fDmg to GetCritDam rWeapon

set fDmg to GetCritDam rWeapon

showmessage f4modtestmsg fDmg

end

begin menumode

set button to getbuttonpressed

if(button == 0)

;SetWeaponIsAutomatic 1 rWeapon ; makes all weapons of that type automatic

rWeapon.SetWeaponIsAutomatic 1 ; does nothing!

endif

end

[Ladez]

GetHotkeyItem returns a base form, so you can't call SetWeaponIsAutomatic on it using reference syntax. You have to provide the base form as an argument.

 

However, even if your refvar did contain a reference, calling SetWeaponIsAutomatic on it would still set the value of the base item of the reference, changing all weapons of the same type.

[Varicide]

Thanks for the help. I thought it didn't return the base form. So there's no way to change just one weapon then?

[Ladez]

Not really, no. There's a way to give player-specific bonuses by using hidden perks, but nothing that only applies to a single, physical weapon.

 

There's a way it might be possible to accomplish what you want with NVSE, but it's a method I've never tried before, so I can't vouch for it's effectiveness. NVSE has a function called TempCloneForm that clones a given object into a new base form. It's temporary though, the cloned form will only last for the duration of a game session. I'm also guessing that it doesn't take into consideration weapons that need to be placed into certain form lists for stuff like perk bonuses to apply. These hurdles can be overcome with careful scripting, but you're going to need to keep track of a lot of stuff. And like I said, I've never tried doing it, so it may not even work at all.