Reading data from inside forms?

[EnaiSiaion]

My current issue is that I need a way in Papyrus to tell apart concentration spells from other spells.

 

The common sense solution is a form list containing all the concentration spells. This works fine, but I want a script-based solution instead so when the player installs a mod that adds new spells it accomodates those spells as well.

 

Therefore: is there a way to read form data?

[Sparafucile]

I don't think there is a way to do this dynamically for a few reasons:

• There does not appear to be script methods to return the casting type of a Spell / MagicEffect.
  
• Your mod only knows about itself and its parent master(s). It doesn't know anything about other loaded mods so how would your script get a reference to those spells? There is Actor.OnSpell but waiting for a spell to already be cast doesn't sound like what you want, even if you could determine its casting type.
  

Perhaps there is a way to do this with ScriptDragon or SKSE...

 

You can still do it but you'll need to make an additional plugin for each 3rd-party mod you will support. Add the 3rd-party mod's concentration spells to your FormList via an init script quest.