Difference between revisions of "Cross Script Variables"

So one might be wondering where functionality like this might prove useful. If you're just writing simple mods this type of functionality may seem a bit excessive. But take as an example a mod where the player will only belong to one faction (''other than the player faction of course.'') Oblivion is designed assuming the player might be a member of many factions. But what if your mod required and only allowed the player be a member of one faction? And what if the relationships between factions was critical to the playing out of your mod? In this situation you might find yourself writing scripts where you would have to do a long series of repetitive checks like these:

These checks would go through each possible faction and could start to get a little hard on the eyes and make trouble shooting scripts a bit more difficult.  

Using the functionality discussed in this article you could store the player's faction in a quest script and just retrieve it with a few lines of code! If the player's faction could switch you would just write code to change the value in the quest script.