Matchew Posted March 12, 2013 Posted March 12, 2013 (edited) So, basically, I loaded up my testquest.esp in Creation Kit and I was following the "Customizing Weapons & Armor" tutorial on CreationKit.com for doing just the Vorpal Sword, doing what they said almost word for word (I used my own weapon ID and title). At first, when I went to save my testquest.esp, it barred me, saying that it was either a Master File, or it was in use. What the tutorial was failing to mention was that I needed to set the esp to 'active' when I loaded it up. So, I went back in with it set to active, did everything the tutorial told me, saved, and booted up Skyrim. I made sure I had testquest.esp ticked in the launcher Data box, and toward the bottom of the load order.When I got in the game, I pulled up the console, typed in player.EquipItem (expletive-laden item id) 1 and the console replied "Item ... not found for parameter ObjectID. Compiled script not saved"So, I went back into my testquest.esp and my custom sword is definitely in there.Can anyone help with this? I have no idea what to do from here. Edited March 12, 2013 by Matchew
unuroboros Posted March 12, 2013 Posted March 12, 2013 Console commands typically take a FormID parameter, not the name of the form as it appears in the CK. There are ways to figure out your FormID in advance, but it's easiest to just look it up in-game with the help command. The help console command wants the literal name of the thing you are looking for, so if you had given the sword the text name "Vorpal Sword" then the console command would be: help "vorpal sword" Depending on how generic your search is, you may get lots of results. You can Page Up to scroll through them. When you see the one you think is what you want, note the hexadecimal number by it. That is its FormID. (Caveat: It may not always be the same, depending on changes made to the mod and changes to load order.) Also, are you sure it's player.EquipItem that you want as your console command? Not player.AddItem?
Matchew Posted March 12, 2013 Author Posted March 12, 2013 Thanks for pointing out the help command. I found it. But it doesn't come up as "FormID", but as a "WEAP"--for 'weapon' I suppose. Although, while it did have six decimals, it had a letter also (27001C4). Is that normal? Also, it is 'Equip', not 'Add'. The console doesn't recognize the 'Add' part of the command, at least not for my game. What I don't understand is that I gave it a FormID. Why wouldn't it just recognize that FormID?
unuroboros Posted March 12, 2013 Posted March 12, 2013 27001C4 is the FormID, then. :) FormID's are in hexadecimal, so they often have letters. So you can add that item to your inventory with: player.additem 27001c4 1 (That 1 on the end means add 1 to your inventory. If you want more than one, change that number.) Or if you already have it in inventory, you could equip it with: player.equipitem 27001c4
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