How to distinguish run-time created actors from hand-placed ones ?

[Elgar]

Hello,

 

What is the best mean for a mod to know if an actor was "hand-placed", and therefore maybe quest-critical, or if he's just a run-time created actor of no importance ?

 

For example, can the mod test if the reference ID starts with "FF", meaning it's a run-time created actor, or if the reference ID starts with "00", meaning it's a hand-placed actor ?

[Arthmoor]

There's no good way to know that. Quests can generate runtime actors to fill aliases for critical roles and those NPCs will all start with FF.

[Elgar]

Ok thank you. That explains why for example Wyndelius Gatharian in Shroud Hearth Barrow has reference IDs which start either with "FF" or with "00".