Playidle on Player from Script: Solved, mostly

[gammons123]

Hi,

 

I am trying to make the player play an idle when a button is pressed. I ahve everything working except the playing an idle part...

 

is there a trick to using PlayerREF.playidle(idlename) ? it doesn;t seem to do anything.

 

I can play the idle from the console fine, but need to be able to start it froma  script (ideally a quest script)

 

is this possible? can anyone help me understand this? I've tried googling/searching here but I can't find any answers I understand, except that the above is working for other people. is it because its in a quest script?

 

Thanks in advance.

[gammons123]

By shamelessly stealing Dagobaking's code from the Scripts for AAF I figured out something that works.

I have no idea WHY it works, but that's just details...

 

Code as follow for anyone interested.

 

    Idle Property myIdle Auto Const

    Actor Property PlayerRef Auto

Function MakeIdleHapped()

            int targetActorFormID = PlayerRef.GetFormID()
            Actor targetActor = Game.GetForm(targetActorFormID) as Actor
            targetActor.PlayIdle(MyIdle)

EndFunction

 

[dagobaking]

You can't play idles by using their id names. You have to use their formID.

 

That may be why it wasn't working before.

[gammons123]

OK., Thanks. I think I follow you...