The Sexoutng Api (How-To For Modders)

[MistahIncognito]

Since this is in reference to the API, I suppose it might be more prudent to ask this here so that others in the future may see if should they have the same question.

 

What is the preferred method for confirming whether or not an actor is engaged in a sex act? I've seen two methods, one involving tokens and another checking Var04. I'd hate to use one that is slated for deprecation.

 

Var04 Method:

set iAV to self.GetAV Variable04
if (0 == (LogicalAnd iAV SexoutNG.FlagInUse))
;blah
endif

 

Token Method:

if (0 == self.GetItemCount 00SexoutActor)
;blah
endif

[srayesmanll]

Prideslayer has said that either is fine, although I've always had the impression that he was moving away from the "token" method. He has advocated the Var04 method recently. You could combine the 2 methods to be safe:

 

set iAV to self.GetAV Variable04
if ((0 == (LogicalAnd iAV SexoutNG.FlagInUse)) && (0 == self.GetItemCount 00SexoutActor))
   ;blah
endif

[prideslayer]

For confirming you can use either.. don't worry about it. I thought the var04 method would be final, and intended it to be so when I thought I was never going to get save/load support into the extender. Now that it has save/load support, I will *eventually* be switching entirely to using that internally.

 

Right now, var04 is used internally by sexout for it to check, but the tokens are still handed out and removed because some mods check for those. If it's easier for you, just stick with the token. An "official" NX interface for checking will be made available once I have the time to properly plan it out.

[Santr]

Right! Totally noob question: how do I find out the gender of an actor?

SexoutNG.ActorA.GetIsSex male

...looks silly and GECK said I'm stupid, but I just can't figure out the right way.

 

Basically, I'm trying to tidy up and hopefully improve the Sexout addon to Imp's MCN, and its original relevant piece of code looks like this:

  if(SexoutNG.isOral || Sexout.sextype == Oral)
   if(SexoutNG.ActorB == PlayerREF || PlayerREF == Sexout.female)
     if(playerGivingOral == 0)
       set playerGivingOral to 1
     endif
   endif
endif

...which makes females also produce cum, but gives no cum when being orally raped.

 

I'm also thinking of getting rid of excessive if/endifs there and just string the conditions with ||s and &&s. Good/bad/'oh-god-leave-the-poor-code-alone' idea?

[prideslayer]

Your code is fine, the language just sucks.. you cannot do "a.b.c" so you need to do "set c to a.b; ..."

 

e.g.

 

set foo to SexoutNG.ActorA
if (foo.GetIsSex male) ...

 

That said, you cannot use SexoutNG.* to get that information -- unless you are the one that set them that is, and you set them in the same frame. Once the sexout spell is running, those variables are copied to internal ones and then cleared out -- they will be blank (or nonsense) when you read them.

 

If MCN is the one that is actually casting SexoutBegin, then it's OK to use them (again, only if it happens in the same frame).

 

Trying to use those variables at any other time is like giving sexout a cupcake and then trying to use the cupcake later -- while madly hoping against hope that sexout hasn't already eaten it.

[DoctaSax]

I'm also thinking of getting rid of excessive if/endifs there and just string the conditions with ||s and &&s. Good/bad/'oh-god-leave-the-poor-code-alone' idea?

 

That code example looks fine as it is to me. I hardly ever use more than 2 logical operators (&& or ||) in the same line. Stringing too many things together in the same line is sometimes unnecessarily harder on the engine than it needs to be, and definitely harder on your own eyes.

 

Imagine a structure like this:

if (something) && (((something else || something else) || (something else && something else)) && something else)
; do something
endif

which is only shorter, but not better for performance than chopping it up a bit.

 

Now replace each "something (else)" by stuff like "GetPlayerTeamMateCount >= (someshort + GetRandomPercent * (someshort - someshort + 1) / 100)" or "player.IsCurrentFurnitureRef != MyIncrediblyLongQuestNameThatWasADumbChoiceWhenIStartedOutButImKindaStuckWithItNow.mystupidlynamedquestvarref", now misplace a bracket somewhere, and you just committed a crime against yer sanity.

[prideslayer]

Note there is a limit in the geck script language to how long conditional constructs can be. This applies not just to single statements with the logical operators (&&, ||) but also to how many "elseif" blocks you can have.

 

I already had to break up the random animation picker into two different if .. elseif .. endif blocks because it got to the point that adding one more elseif caused the script to start failing when it was run, though it still saved OK in the geck. I had to do something similar in tryouts, which is why in there you'll find a bunch of simple single-condition if statements one after the other that all do the same thing (return or dispel or something like that).

 

Don't let them get too long or you'll get failures that just "don't make sense" when debugging.

[ChancellorKremlin]

OK, bit confused with something here. I'm trying to use the set SexoutNG.CBDialog function, but using X as the "shadow placeholder" for an NPC not participating in the action, in this case a pimp with the JetSlaver01REF reference.

 

However, how exactly do I make him work with the callback? I've tried the following:

 

set SexoutNG.CBDialogJetSlaver01REF to SlaveJailTRenegade06CallbackB

 

set SexoutNG.CBDialog JetSlaver01REF to SlaveJailTRenegade06CallbackB

 

And a few others, none of which worked. I'm sure I'm missing something silly here, but I would really appreciate a hand.

 

Cheers.

[DoctaSax]

set SexoutNG.actorX to ActorRef

set SexoutNG.CBDialogX to topicID

[ChancellorKremlin]

Oh, so that's what I was screwing up. Thanks!

[ChancellorKremlin]

Oh, and one last thing while we're at it.

 

I noticed that quite a few of the SexoutNGAnims in the GECK have both a main name, like SNG201, and then are subdivided into SNG201a and SNG201b. Does this mean there are two variants of the same animation (201) or not?

 

How would I add this in a script? Like this?

 

set Sexout.anim to 201
set SexoutNG.ActorA to VeronicaREF
set SexoutNG.ActorB to GetSelf
CIOS SexoutBegin

[DoctaSax]

Oh' date=' and one last thing while we're at it.

 

I noticed that quite a few of the SexoutNGAnims in the GECK have both a main name, like SNG201, and then are subdivided into SNG201a and SNG201b. Does this mean there are two variants of the same animation (201) or not?

[/quote']

 

The 201a would be for actorA, 201b for actorB.

But yes, to pick an anim, all you really need is what you wrote there, although setting them both separately will work too.

[ChancellorKremlin]

Oh DoctaSax, what can I say...

[ChancellorKremlin]

I know Prideslayer said this isn't a technical support type thread, but I figured its better than me opening up yet another one up in the TS forum.

 

So here goes. Whenever I try and use this in the geck:

 

VFSHighTimesDealer.NX_SetEVFl "Sexout:Start::CallVer" 1
VFSHighTimesDealer.NX_SetEVFo "Sexout:Start::ActorA" VFSHighTimesDealer
VFSHighTimesDealer.NX_SetEVFo "Sexout:Start::ActorB" playerREF		
VFSHighTimesDealer.NX_SetEVFl "Sexout:Start::isAnal" 1
VFSHighTimesDealer.NX_SetEVFo "Sexout:Start::CBDialogA" SDCallbackGeneral
VFSHighTimesDealer.CIOS SexoutBegin

 

I get "SCRIPTS: Script 'DefaultCompiler', line 0: Unknown variable or function 'NX_SetEVFI'."

 

Suggestions?

[zippy57]

I think the only reason that would happen is if your NVSE stuff is out-of-date. Make sure you have the latest Extender and the official NVSE 3b2.

[ChancellorKremlin]

I do. I am opening the GECK though the geckpu-nv-14.exe.

 

I remember being told somewhere that if I used that, it would auto-load NVSE and etc, but if I opened it up with nvse_loader - Shortcut it wouldn't load geckpu.

 

I must be doing something wrong...

[zippy57]

Don't use the GeckPU.exe. Put the nvse_plugin_geckpu-nv-14.dll file in the NVSE/plugins folder and then launch via nvse_loader.

[ChancellorKremlin]

Ah ok. It's already there, so I'll be launching it from teh nvse_loader -shortcut exe from now on.

 

Thanks!

 

EDIT: Now I'm getting this, to the same script:

 

"Warning - Power Up - Scripts

 

SCRIPTS: Script 'DefaultCompiler', line 1:

Syntax error. Invalid reference 'VFSHighTimesDealer' (only object references and reference variables are available in this context."

 

VFSHighTimesDealer is the id for Dixon. I'm taking it they aren't liking that very much...

[DoctaSax]

Chances are VFSHighTimesDealer is the base editor ID, and you need the reference ID. Right-click on the entry in the object window/npc's, select "use info", double click on the cell where they placed him, and find his reference there.

[iron_jack]

So getself no longer works in the new version of Sexout calls, right? For instance:

 

GetSelf.NX_SetEVFo "Sexout:Start::ActorA" GetSelf

 

 

It will not work in either of those places. Right?

[DoctaSax]

You're best off declaring a ref first, set that to Getself, & then do the calling.

I still use the old calling system when I can.

[Halstrom]

You're best off declaring a ref first' date=' set that to Getself, & then do the calling. I still use the old calling system when I can.

[/quote']

Yep and then you'r beter checking GetSelf == "Something", I found a lot of idssues I had with scripts on NPC's "Set rZActor to GetSelf" wasn't actually set till the script had run 2 or 3 times.

[Dmouse52]

presently in TTW alpha BR bans npc's when you're in capitol wasteland but kicks in when you get to the mojave is there a way to un-ban npc's?

[Swyke]

Hello!

 

I have a basic Sexout-modding-question.

 

I tried to figure out, how to script a basic "whoring"-act, which allows to use the same toppics to begin an animation with different NPC. Watching other Mods in GECK I've seen, that Tryout for example uses a "GetSelf" for the NPC-Actor.

 

I've tryied this using the "Now-And-Forever-Interface" as described in the first post here:

 

GetSelf.NX_SetEVFl "Sexout:Start::CallVer" 1
GetSelf.NX_SetEVFo "Sexout:Start::ActorA" GetSelf
GetSelf.NX_SetEVFo "Sexout:Start::ActorB" playerREF
GetSelf.CIOS SexoutBegin

 

But that doesn't work.

Shure I#ve did something stupid wrong.

 

As searching through other mods, I recognized that noone(!) seems to use this "Now-And-Forever-Interface" (!?!)

 

Is this true?

Is it better to use the old interface?

And how can I get my script run?

 

Thakt you, for your attention

 

Swyke

[zippy57]

Hello!

Hello.

I have a basic Sexout-modding-question.

Okay.

But that doesn't work.

Shure I#ve did something stupid wrong.

Please define "doesn't work". There are many possible outcomes of "doesn't work" in this system.

As searching through other mods, I recognized that noone(!) seems to use this "Now-And-Forever-Interface" (!?!)

 

Is this true?

No.

Is it better to use the old interface?

No.

And how can I get my script run?

Explain your issue better and we'll see.

Thakt you, for your attention

You're welcome.

Swyke

zippy57