Birthsigns for NPCs

Poof! It is EXACTLY like magic! - Ancotar on how this mod works Disclaimer: It\'s been something like a year since I last looked at this. I don\'t use this mod, and frankly you shouldn\'t either. It uses very primitive methods, and adds/remove spells from all kinds of actors like a maniac. Not to mention that from a lore perspective, only the PC and a few exceptional individuals should be able to manifest and consciously wield the powers conferred by any particular birthsign (with the possible exception of the Atronach sign cursing all those born under it with stunted magicka). You may crack it up in the CS and look at its scripts to maybe learn something new, or not, but its best not to actually use it in a game you care. Enemy actors use powers seems to be a similar mod, I would never have guessed my idea was not all that new. Introduction ========== So I was wondering, \"friggin\' arrays, how do they work?\", or something like that, and realized that the best way to learn it was using them. Because the OBSE command GetBirthsignSpells was sitting there, lonely, with no mod making good use of it, it appealed to me as the perfect candidate. \"A mod to add birthsigns to NPCs\" sounds easier than it really is though... Many, many, MANY curses, arrays and hours later this piece of imagination came to fruition. Featuring random birthsign assignment to any NPC, humongous scripts with a NOTICEABLE performance hit, fairly safe system to remove or change the birthsigns on actors, and some more (ok, more like less, because when you are adding spells directly to actors, the less the better) Details ====== Upon loading a game, this mod creates three arrays: one contains the spells from the vanilla 13 birthsigns (maybe more ;) BUT with the spells defined by any \'birthsign overhaul\' type of mod you might have like bg\'s Race Balancing project or tejon\'s Birthsigns Expanded, another contains actors that should not get a birthsign automatically, and another is for Shadowscales (I might refine this later). The mod works by spreading tokens among any actors catched by GetHighActors obse function, basically anyone not entirely dead in your same cell. You can set exceptions, like preventing essential NPCs, guards, persistent or non persistent actors from getting token, check the ini! Upon being add, the token generates a random number from 0 to 12. Each number from 0 upwards is a birthsign, in alphabetical order (0 for Apprentice, 1 for Atronach...). It then checks that the actor has no spell from any birthsign already. If the check is successful, the spells in the birthsign get then added to the actor. Poof! It is EXACTLY like magic! When the NPC dies, or the clean option in the ini is set to 1, the token removes the birthsign and itself. You can also do this manually (keep reading) By default, this mod excludes some NPCs from vanilla Obli