Lets Add Some Age to That Realism

[Gribbleshnibit8]

I pointed this out to thermador in chat, but I'll but it here for others. The new 4.2 release of NVSE (yes, a new one, go grab it, folks!) has a SetHair function that will be a nice work around for this if the other method doesn't work.
http://www.gribbleshnibit.com/projects/NVSEDocs/#SetHair

[thermador]

Right now, the main limiting factor seems to be "how many ref's can once script run agerace on before it won't run anything at all"...

Edit: after more testing, my workaround doesn't work - the documentation for "AgeRace" is incorrect - it doesn't matter if the NPC's hairstyle, pre-AgeRace, is in the list of available hairstyles for the race they are aging into.  No matter what you do, everyone gets reset to the default hairstyle.  Which is bald.  (I guess all the radiation makes people's hair fall out haha)

So... that means another set of lengthy scripts, NVSE, "sethair" for every NPC in the game. 

[Gribbleshnibit8]

Well now that you're using NVSE I can give you a quick script that'll do it.

[thermador]

Thanks Gribbles.

At this point though, I can't make SetHair or GetHair work. 

Even in the console, in-game you can test this.  Use GetHair on one NPC to get the baseID of the hairstyle.  Then use SetHair on another NPC, or the player or whatever, with that same baseID and you get - nothing.  No change.  Even though "GetHair" will now report the change, nothing actually happens to the character in the game. 

Further, SetHair, executed by a script also doens't work.  I still get lots of bald NPCs.  And, leaving Megaton and waiting 24 hours, then coming back - no change.

At this point, I am at a loss for how to continue on this one.

[JaxFirehart]

Try waiting 96 hours in an interior and then PCB before leaving.

[thermador]

Just tried it - no change.  I am thinking NVSE "SetHair" just doesn't work. 

[Gribbleshnibit8]

Try calling Update3D on them. That might do it. This is just an example, and the first script I've ever written using foreach (I will probably go back and update a lot of my own mods to make use of this, just for ease of maintenance. It seems awesome)

scn AgeNPCsSCRIPT



ref rNPC

ref rHair



BEGIN GameMode

	foreach rNPC <- ListOfNPCsToBeAged

		set rHair to rNPC.GetHair

		rNPC.AgeRace 1

		rNPC.SetHair rHair

		rNPC.Update3D

	loop

END

[thermador]

Thanks Gribbles - I will try that out and see what happens.

[Puppettron]

i think for people using wild wasteland trait, you should change all the kids at lamplight to II's, like MacReady II.  and for people who aren't, tell them the mod would be too hard to do if you accounted for everyone changing ages, so you just stuck with important adults.

[thermador]

Sadly, ref.Update3D (neither by script nor console) makes no difference.  I am at a loss for how to make "AgeRace" give people anything but the default (bald) hair...