Ok, so I made a Death Animation for my creature because I thought that it was easier than making Havok (or maybe just because I did'nt understand how to make Havok).

Now the creature worked fine in every way but there was a 'small' problem ... when it died it lost collision.

The bigger problem that I am noticing now is that if I kill the creature and then change the cell and come back (or simply reload a game)... then its standing in the 'pose' mode instead of remaining in the position it died in.

So is there a way I can fix this without making havok?

Collision and Havok are the same thing -> if what your referring to is the Living Collision that is generated based on the BSBounds shape all creatures lose this when they die.



Node Position on Death is usually saved in save games even for nodes without Collision Shapes -> though there is a known issue with dead actors returning to their Bind Pose when you leave an area and return some time later, your probably getting hit by this problem maybe because you do not have even one Collision Shape (which at least one is required to be able to loot the dead creature).

I used to get confused by this so I started calling the red BSBound thing as 'collision' and the green shapes that takes over after death as 'Havok'. Anyways you get the point



Yes, I don't have any of the green collision shapes. (and yes the corpse is not lootable) ... guess I will have to add Havok after all.


Anyways any ideas on where approximately should I link the collision shape (I intend to add only one).

I remember that once I added one to each of the legs and when the creature died the legs got stretched like chewed gum all over the screen.

Also can I like copy one of the capsules from some original oblivon creatures in nifscope?

Yes, this is what I did for my First CC as when I did that Creature we could not export any kind of Collisions, the Exporters were not mature enough at the time.

The First release of Akatosh was done in this manner, I have since updated him completely.