Get matherial type player currently standing on

[rand256]

Can't figure out if there's any change to get the name of matherial player currently standing on. For example - a wooden floor, a carpet or maybe snow and ice, and so on. In the game these matherials affect sound of player footsteps, and that could be changed with CreationKit. But is it possible to use information about matherials in custom scripts? Can't find anything on this in CK Wiki.

Any help will be appreciated, thanks!

[WillieSea]

I have not heard of any vanilla functions that will do that.

The actual 'material' is taken from the NIF or mesh in the game and the sound system plays the correct NIF sound that goes with the material. The materials are actually a NIF object in the file, from what I understand.

[rand256]

As I can guess by exploring CK menus, when you try to change footstep sounds - you actually can define which sound should be played depending on matherial player is standing on AND the footgear player is wearing... I mean it's more than just simple NIF associated sound somewhere deep in the game engine. So in theory it should be possible to extract some info about which NIF (or anything) the player is on. And it would be a shame if there's simply no API present in Papyrus to get that information, though. :\

Seems like the only information about player's position we can easily get in script contains of current cell ID, current worldspace.. and the raw coordinates, I guess. Which is definitely not enough for a script, where something should happen when the player walks onto slippery ice, for example.

[WillieSea]

You could use a 'triggerzone' for the slippery area, and code something to happen when the player enters the triggerzone.

The nif tells the game engine what type of material it is. The game engine then decides what to play.

[rand256]

The problem obviously is that I hoped to use any icy area in the game as 'slippery' one without defining it explicitly, so that's not a solution...

Anyway, thanks for the help.