How to get speaking NPC from dialogue script?

[FiftyTifty]

For the life of me, I couldn't find any mention of this.

 

I've an NPC that is talking to the player, and I want to get that NPC as a reference, so I can call a UDF. In Skyrim, you would use the akspeaker variable, but there's nothing on the GECK wikis that talk about it.

 

So how do I get the speaker as a reference?

[dubiousintent]

I believe what you want is the "GetActionRef" function. It may need to go into either the "Begin Result" or "End Result" block of the dialog; not clear to me.

Note that dialog "inherits" it's implied speaker from it's topic.

 

See also "Calling reference" page.

 

-Dubious-

[FiftyTifty]

I believe what you want is the "GetActionRef" function. It may need to go into either the "Begin Result" or "End Result" block of the dialog; not clear to me.

Note that dialog "inherits" it's implied speaker from it's topic.

 

See also "Calling reference" page.

 

-Dubious-

 

Yup, it works. Thanks a bunch.

[dubiousintent]

Great to hear. Just so I can put that into a Tip for others, where did you end up needing to place that function to get the correct value? Any problems getting to work?

 

-Dubious-

[FiftyTifty]

Great to hear. Just so I can put that into a Tip for others, where did you end up needing to place that function to get the correct value? Any problems getting to work?

 

-Dubious-

 

I just placed it in the Result Script (End) part of the dialogue topic. I chucked it into a UDF command, that takes an integer as the first argument, and a ref as the second argument.

 

 

call AAAFyTySetActivePackage 2 GetActionRef

 

There were no errors or anything, it just works.