SetDescription on items is very unreliable

EzRemake

I can only get it to work maybe 20% of the time, and I have no idea what causes it to fail.

object oUser = GetLastUsedBy();
object oWeap = GetItemInSlot(INVENTORY_SLOT_RIGHTHAND, oUser);

if(GetIsObjectValid(oWeap)) SetDescription(oWeap, "LOOK AT THIS FANCY DESCRIPTION THAT DOESN'T WORK");

Even this only works maybe 1 in 5 times, whether it's set to change the identified description or not. I don't remember this being an issue in 1.69, anyone have any tips here?

Balanor

Hmm...not sure what might be causing it to simply fail as your script snippet looks OK to me. I do know that in 1.69 if you copied an item that had its description modified with that function, the new copy would have the original description (which was very annoying). I haven't seen anything to indicate that Beamdog changed/fixed this rather undesirable behavior in EE.

Later on in this script, you're not perhaps making a copy of the item in the weapon slot, are you? Because that could be the cause then.

Proleric

What is the context in which you're issuing GetLastUsedBy()? If you're using a door or placeable, fine, but in other contexts the result is unpredictable. Unless oUser is valid, oWeap will be invalid, so renaming will fail.

EzRemake

The code snippet was just something I made to test the function, I just threw it on a useable placeable.