Check for Henchmen in party

philbo · July 2019

Hey all,

I'm trying to make a conversation conditional that checks to see if a particular henchman is part of the players current party. I found the GetWorkingForPlayer function, but it only works if it is from a script attached to the particular henchmen. Also GetBeenHired does not work in cases where the henchman was hired, then fired or killed, it would still return true. At least that is how i understand these functions.

What is an efficient way to check from a conversation with an npc whether a particular henchman is in the current party?

I appreciate any help!

Daz · July 2019

You can do something like this:

int GetHasHenchmanInParty(object oPC, string sHenchmanTag)
{
    object oMember = GetFirstFactionMember(oPC, FALSE);

    while (oMember != OBJECT_INVALID)
    {
        if (GetTag(oMember) == sHenchmanTag)
            return TRUE;

        oMember = GetNextFactionMember(oPC, FALSE);
    }

    return FALSE;
}

Or, I'm not sure if GetFactionLeader() works on non PCs, but you can give it a try if the henchman is unique

int StartingConditional()
{
    return GetFactionLeader(GetObjectByTag("HENCHMAN_TAG")) == GetPCSpeaker();
}

philbo · July 2019

@Daz

Thank you for your response!

I tried the second option first, and it worked!

You are my hero

Proleric · July 2019

GetMaster() works, too.

sarevok57 · June 2021

man this was a life saver, it was taking me forever to get no where with this, thankfully this post existed

Check for Henchmen in party

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