Talk:Player

Player vs. PlayerRef

My problem: In some scripts the word "player" compiles as the player reference (FormID: 0x00000014), while in other scripts, it compiles as the player Base object (FormID: 0x00000007).

Explanation from scruggsy:

This has to do with the way Oblivion compiles script references to objects and particularly to the player character.

Use "player" to refer to the base player object (formID 00000007) and "playerRef" for the player reference (formID 00000014).

The compiler (and OBSE) give you some leeway with "player", treating it as a reference when necessary (e.g. before a dot in a function call) but both can get confused when the usage is ambiguous (e.g. as a function argument). Admittedly the vanilla parse routines are more forgiving here.

QQuix 12:02, 20 January 2010 (EST)