Modding & Scripting Pitfalls

[jbezorg]

Just a knowledge dump thread

 

I'll start

When Scripting: If you lock the player's controls and don't unlock them after a certain event happens (or for any case when Y needs to happen after X) add a sanity check. That is a timeout that returns control to the player (if X does not happen before the timeout expires). This is especially important when relying on Skyrim's AI which can be very unreliable. Almost equally important is when relying on a stat to reach a certain value or percentage since other mods frequently alter them.