Fact Finder

How's the private detective career? - V

If you're like me, you're a mod author that's curious about the "facts" that the game uses to record various actions taken or not taken as you play the game. Perhaps you have other mods you want to make based on those facts. Perhaps you have wondered exactly what choices have what results. Well, now there's a fix for that.

With this mod, every time a fact changes, you will be notified with an onscreen message and a log to the console.

This mod is mainly meant for other mod authors and the average player probably won't find it useful.

How to use:

This mod requires redscript. In addition, unless you want to run with the default settings, then you also need Mod Settings. Mod Settings itself requires ArchiveXL and RED4ext. To more easily review all the facts that have changed, use CET.

Once all that's installed, go into Mod Settings and adjust your settings. There's only three:

Show all references: By default, this is turned off, to help prevent spam. If you turn this on, then when a fact changes, every quest, questphase, and scene, which refers to that fact, is also reported. This can be extremely spammy. Some facts are listed in hundreds of different places. However, turning this option on (especially if you have filtered out a lot of the fact list) can help you more easily refer to which quest/questphase/scene uses the fact.

Even if you don't use this setting, you can find all the quests, questphases, and scenes that refer to a fact by going in the source code and using Ctrl-F to find all mentions of that fact. This setting just spams your log with it in-game if you don't want to go in the source code. Your choice.

Times Changed Per Session: To help reduce spam from facts that change very frequently, you can set how many times the same fact will get reported when changes happen. Even if the fact keeps changing after that point, it won't be counted/reported anymore (until you adjust the setting or start another session from loading a save.) By default I set this to 3, but I personally use a setting of 1. Setting this to 0 effectively turns the mod off.

Note that for the purposes of this setting, the 'all references' doesn't count as 'times changed' and so if a fact has 800 references, then all 800 references will be reported each time it changes, up to 3 times, before that fact stops getting logged.

When you load a save, the mod will start to loop through all the facts. The first loop, it is storing the current values of the facts. Every loop after that, it reports if any changes have happened, both on screen, and to the console log (which you can view with CET easily in-g