I'm starting to move into the "scenes" part of the Creation Kit, and i'm running into the issue that i don't really know what i can do here and what options i have at my fingertips.

I decided to begin learning my way around this area of the toolkit by making an actor appear out of thin air, play an animation (IdleGrave_02), dissappear after a few seconds, appear again a bit further down the hallway, walk to a certain point and then dissappear again when the player gets within a certain distance of the actor.

What ways do i have to do this? Feel free to throw papyrus at me, i can read and write it well enough, just again i don't know everything that's avaliable to me within the system.

I think the biggest hurdle i have is figuring out how to make actors play animations in a safe way within scenes.

There is everything you need to know about scenes here: http://www.creationkit.com/Scene

I can't really tell from that how to make actors play animations within the scene.

You'll need packages to have an actor play a scene. Did you read the next page?

http://www.creationkit.com/Scenes_Tab

Yeah, i did read both pages, but i still can't see anything on making the actor play a specific animation. Did you mean that i need to use a package to have the actor play the animation i want to use? How is that done?

Edit: Oh hey hang on, can i create new IdleMarkers that use custom IdleAnimations? Is that what i need?

I don't understand; do you want your actor to play a scene or an animation?

Your link to the scenes wiki page and some tutorials really tuned me into how scenes work. And what i'm stuck on right now is making the actor play a animation as a part of a scene. Like say for illustration make him wave and talk.

Well, you'll probably have to add this behaviour to your quest script. I'm afraid my knowledge at scripting is too basic for me to be able to help further. Sorry...