Darkwood Modding

April 6, 2015

Way to go.

MoreNastyCritters, are you reading this?

Chesko · August 11, 2015

Hi,

Using the method you suggest requires SKSE, which not all authors are comfortable with requiring. This error alone is not reason enough to require SKSE.

However, in Campfire and future versions of Frostfall, et al, I use the following function to check for plugins. It changes its behavior depending on if SKSE happens to be loaded or not, and if it is, it surpresses errors. It's still up to the user to use SKSE or not in this case.

bool property isSKSELoaded auto hidden

; In some other function or event, extend if specific version is necessary
isSKSELoaded = SKSE.GetVersion()
 
bool function IsPluginLoaded(int iFormID, string sPluginName)
    if isSKSELoaded
        int i = Game.GetModByName(sPluginName)
        if i != 255
            debug.trace("[ModName] Loaded: " + sPluginName)
            return true
        else
            return false
        endif
    else
        bool b = Game.GetFormFromFile(iFormID, sPluginName)
        if b
            debug.trace("[ModName] Loaded: " + sPluginName)
            return true
        else
            return false
        endif
    endif
endFunction

I hope that snippet can help others implement this kind of functionality even if they don't require SKSE from their users.

Edit: Removed everything related to issues I have with the tone of this article and just provided information instead.

darkconsole · August 12, 2015

i disagree. it is. disk operations are slow.

that is a lot of papyrus vm side convolution to avoid requiring the one thing that is almost kind of basically required by everything else, even if they dont know it, to do a simple check. the fact someone could be opposed to skse actually quite boggles me, unless you got bad blood with the people or something. i know i dont need to lecture you about how many ms per frame we have to run, or how easy it is to stall out threads in the vm.

hell, i wouldn't even have access to bitwise operations without skse.

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