Unique character

[elchapetas]

Is there a way to make body and armor replacers unique to the PC?

 

Thaumx of BnB managed to exclude old females from using the BnB armors. I know unique races will make your main body unique to the PC or any NPC, but how did Thaumx managed to do this with the armors?

[zippy57]

He gave versions of the armor referencing the original meshes to the older NPCs. It's technically possible to do PC-only replacer, but unless there's an NVSE function I don't know about (which is entirely possible and I'm sure someone will correct me if there is) it would be a very invasive process that would require attaching an OnEquip script to every single armor in the game.

[jaam]

Using the OnEquip event would replace adding a script to every NPC.

[elchapetas]

mmm please elaborate about the onEquip

[zippy57]

You would have to go into every armor in the game, and create a script for each one, and in each script have an OnEquip event to tell the game to silently unequip the armor, add a different armor, and equip that one, depending on whether or not the armor was equipped by the player.

[jaam]

In scripts you have the OnEquip block. But you can create a single script event that will be called whenever any actor Equip anything.

 

Check the "tutorial & gides" section here for DoctaSax tutorial on events (its part 5).

 

[Odessa]

I'd try this:

 

- Install NVSE 4.6+ and Lutana plugin (for FileExists).

- Put the 'replacer' armors in a subfolder within meshes called "MyPlayer/", so they don't replace, otherwise keep their folder structure the same.

- Create an OnActorEquip event for the player, with a script something like (check DoctaSax tutorial):

ref Equipper (filtered for PlayerREF only)
ref EquippedArmor
 
string_var model_path
string_var full_path
ref TempArmor
 
Begin Function { Equipper,  EquippedArmor }
 
    if IsClonedForm EquippedArmor ; # see below..
         return
    endif
 
    let model_path := "MyPlayer/"
    let model_path += GetBipedModelPath 1, EquippedArmor ; # 1 = Female path
    let full_path := "Meshes/" + model_path
   
    if FileExists $full_path ; # if a player replacer exists for the equipped armor
        let MyQuest.EquippedArmor := EquippedArmor ; # Note 1
        let TempArmor := TempCloneForm EquippedArmor ; # clone it,
        SetBipedModelPathEx "%z" model_path, 1, TempArmor ; # set the player mesh path for clone
        PlayerREF.AddItem TempArmor, 1, 1
        PlayerREF.EquipItem TempArmor, 0, 1 ; # equip the clone
    endif
 
    sv_Destruct model_path, full_path
 
End

- Note 1: Temp clones disappear when you quit game, so you need to keep track of the armor some place and run a script on Game restart (GetGameRestarted or similar) to fix this.

- Apart from that, I think this is all you need to do.