How do you place a sword through a dead body? : V

» Sun Mar 17, 2013 11:04 pm

Forgive me for my noob question, I'm very new to the Creation Kit. How do you make a sword, dagger etc stick out of a dead NPC so it looks like someone stabbed them in chest, left the sword in them and walked away? Like this for example:

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Aslo does anyone know what this burnt corpse is called within the Creation Kit? I've found every other corpse but I really want this one and it's driving me nuts.

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» Sun Mar 17, 2013 12:50 pm

Double click the sword and the body and check 'dont havok settle'. Then set them up in the CK like you want them, and they wont move ingame. However if the player touches either the weapon or the body they will simulate and fall apart.

If you REALLY wanted to get complex you could potentially fake the arrow effect somehow and actually have it stick into the body, but I know nothing about that or if it's even possible.

The bodies I think are called like TreasCorpseBurnt or something, search for Treas and Corpse with a * in between, that should help you find it. And, as always, the best way to find out what things are called is to go to where you know they are in the vanilla game in the CK and see what they're called.

» Sun Mar 17, 2013 6:03 pm

Double click the sword and the body and check 'dont havok settle'. Then set them up in the CK like you want them, and they wont move ingame. However if the player touches either the weapon or the body they will simulate and fall apart.

If you REALLY wanted to get complex you could potentially fake the arrow effect somehow and actually have it stick into the body, but I know nothing about that or if it's even possible.

The bodies I think are called like TreasCorpseBurnt or something, search for Treas and Corpse with a * in between, that should help you find it. And, as always, the best way to find out what things are called is to go to where you know they are in the vanilla game in the CK and see what they're called.

Awesome, thanks for the quick reply. Really appreciate it. Also, I usually do, but I couldn't remember exactly where that corpse was so I figured I'd throw that in this topic with my main question. Thanks again!