Item baseID problem

[ppl47]

Hello everyone, I'm trying to get the baseID of an object ( the one in the Construction Set) but I keep getting instead the reference ID, the one given when the instance of the object is created in the world.
My code is the following:


Firstly, I set an event handler when the player equips something ( a weapon for example)

SetEventHandler "OnActorEquip" aaFnPlayerEquip "ref"::Player



Then i definde the eventhandler function as follows:

scn aaFnPlayerEquip

ref target

ref item

ref itemRef

string_var id

string_var id2

string_var id3

Begin Function {target, item}

let itemRef := CreateTempRef item

let id := GetEditorID itemRef

let id2 := GetFormIDString itemRef

let id3 := GetRawFormIDString itemRef

Print "name = "+ $itemRef.GetName + " , editorId = " +$id +" , formID = " +$id2 +" , RawformID = " +$id3

End

During gameplay the message is correctly dispalyed but all of the entries are the same and equal to the reference ID . Im my specific case i get FF00216F but the weapon formID is 0003A85D ( i want to extract the latter)

[QQuix]

GetEditorID works only with cells and quests

 

Use GetBaseObject e.g. let BaseID := itemRef.GetBaseObject

[ppl47]

GetEditorID works only with cells and quests

 

Use GetBaseObject e.g. let BaseID := itemRef.GetBaseObject

Ok it worked! Thanks!

[ppl47]

Anoter question: is there a way to get the "alias " of the item instead of the formiD? for example i need to extract MS31BlackwaterBlade20 instead of 0006B69A. Thank you again

[QQuix]

This 'alias' is called EditorID and it is only known by the Construction Set. Only EditorIDs of cells and quests go into the ESPs/ESMs. The others do not.

 

But shademe has a RuntimeEditorIDs OBSE plugin that should do it.

[ppl47]

This 'alias' is called EditorID and it is only known by the Construction Set. Only EditorIDs of cells and quests go into the ESPs/ESMs. The others do not.

 

But shademe has a RuntimeEditorIDs OBSE plugin that should do it.

Thank you again, i will give it a look.

In my script i want to give a container an item knowing its editorID. The problem is that addItem doesnt accept its argument as a string. The code is something like this:

 

let itemLevel := playerLevel - playerLevel%5 ;

let itemIDName := "MS31BlackwaterBlade" +$itemLevel ; itemIDName is a string variable containing the name of the item, in this case is "MS31BlackwaterBlade10" for example

chest.AddItem itemIDName 1<----- doesnt work

 

In the wiki of additem it says that you can pass the reference of the editor item. I wonder if there is a function that given the editorID (hexagesimal) or the alias ("MS31BlackwaterBlade10") it returns the object reference, in order to give it to the additem function. Thanks again

[QQuix]

In a script the EditorID IS the Base Object FormID (the compiler converts the EditorID into the FormID - and that is why the EditorID is disposable thereafter)

 

So you just code "chest.AddItem MS31BlackwaterBlade10 1"

 

The WIKI text "You can use a reference variable as ObjectID and a short variable for count." means that you may do something like this, if you need to:

int intCount
ref refBase

let intCount := 1
let refBase :=  MS31BlackwaterBlade10
chest.AddItem refBase intCount

[ppl47]

 

In a script the EditorID IS the Base Object FormID (the compiler converts the EditorID into the FormID - and that is why the EditorID is disposable thereafter)

 

So you just code "chest.AddItem MS31BlackwaterBlade10 1"

 

The WIKI text "You can use a reference variable as ObjectID and a short variable for count." means that you may do something like this, if you need to:

int intCount
ref refBase

let intCount := 1
let refBase :=  MS31BlackwaterBlade10
chest.AddItem refBase intCount

The code works. Now I'm trying to make it work coming from a string variable, with the function StringToRef provided by Pluggy but i'm missing something.

int intCount

ref refBase

string_var BaseString

 

let intCount := 1

let BaseString := "MS31BlackwaterBlade10"

let refBase := StringToRef BaseString

chest.AddItem refBase intCount <-------- doens't work

[QQuix]

Pluggy's StringToRef is the inverse of GetFormIdString. E.g. - " let refBase := StringToRef "0000000A" will set refBase to the FormID 00000A ( Lockpick. )

 

Except for RuntimeEditorIDs , the game does not know what the strings "MS31BlackwaterBlade10", "Lockpick" or "Gold" mean. Even RuntimeEditorIDs does not have a function to convert these strings to refs (From what I read in the docs - I`ve never used it myself).

 

If you really must do this conversion, you may take a look at the scripts in my "Show EditorIDs in game". It is among my Conceptuals. It reads a conversion table from a pluggy text file. But it only have vanilla FormIDs.

[ppl47]

Pluggy's StringToRef is the inverse of GetFormIdString. E.g. - " let refBase := StringToRef "0000000A" will set refBase to the FormID 00000A ( Lockpick. )

 

Except for RuntimeEditorIDs , the game does not know what the strings "MS31BlackwaterBlade10", "Lockpick" or "Gold" mean. Even RuntimeEditorIDs does not have a function to convert these strings to refs (From what I read in the docs - I`ve never used it myself).

 

If you really must do this conversion, you may take a look at the scripts in my "Show EditorIDs in game". It is among my Conceptuals. It reads a conversion table from a pluggy text file. But it only have vanilla FormIDs.

Basically what i'm trying to do is a mod in which a container receive a levelled item from thenplayer, compare its "level" with the one of the player and if lower switch the item in the container with the higher level version.

For example , lets assume I complete the quest for Blackwater blade at level 1, then i will receive the item MS31BlackWaterBlade01 (formID = 00004C201). If i had done the quest later, lets say at level 14, i would have received MS31BlackWaterBlade10 (0006B698). Since I dont want to force myself to leave these quest at the end of my playthrough as well as dont use the console ( it breaks the gameplay) , I come up with the idea of this chest: you deposit you low level item and it switch it with a higher level version according to your level. In order to select the correct version, I need to compute its level ( by checking the last 2 chars fo its editor name , 01, in MS31BlackWaterBlade01) and the build the name of the newer version from the level of the player( if level 14 it will be "10" --> MS31BlackWaterBlade10).

All of these calculation can be avoided by building several if statement and using the hexagesimal codes, but it would be longer , and I was trying to find a faster and more elegant way