Difference between revisions of "Player"

Player (edit)

138 bytes added , 12:47, 20 January 2010

Claarifying Player vs. PlayerRef

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 * The player reference is also hardwired into the engine with formid 0x00000014.
 ** The player reference does not actually appear in Oblivion.esm. The game engine automatically adds it at runtime.
-* When the string "player" is used in a script, it is compiled to refer to the player reference, ''not'' the player base object -- even though it is the base object that has the id "player".
+* In scripts, use "playerRef" to refer to the player reference (formID 0x00000014).
-** If you need to refer to the player baseobject in a script, then you'll need to use its formid. (Or if using OBSE, use a call like "player.getBaseObject".)
+* When the string "player" is used in a script, the compiler (and OBSE) give you some leeway, treating it as a reference when necessary (e.g. before a dot) but both can get confused when the usage is ambiguous (e.g. as a function argument).
+** If you need to refer to the player base object in a script, then you'll need to use its formid. (Or if using OBSE, use a call like "playerRef.getBaseObject".)