They will need the obse plugin as well.

How do you make it so that when an animation loops it doesn't jump immediately back to the regular idle animation?

I'm trying to add bits of armor to creatures/skeleton/skellie.nif but they won't display in the CS (it says I need to hide the skeleton before exporting). Is there any way to adjust iether the armor nif or skellie nif to allow this only using NifSkope? I'm trying to achieve something along the lines of http://tesnexus.com/downloads/images/25050-1-1244658054.jpg

Do you have an extra NiNode in NifSkope?

Like http://i53.tinypic.com/1ic0f7.jpg?

Or something like that? That's what happened to me. Now, I'm not positive, but I think I got rid of the SceneRoot.00 and it worked... a little better.

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Or it could have been choosing "Pad and Sort Bones" when exporting in Blender.

I did so many things to try to figure out why things weren't working it was ridiculous.

Yeah, I've got the extra NiNode, but it's not helping. Is there a way I can edit the Cuirass mesh (in NifSkope) before I copy/paste it to the Skellie.nif so that it matches the NiNodes of the Skellie?

If you use Blender, when you export just use "Pad and Sort Bones" if that doesn't solve it then I've got no idea. Sorry.

Is there any way to make an activator cast a summon spell?

Thanks

If the activator is always present in the same location (like the Atronach altar in Frostcrag Spire), you can script it to enable an initially disabled actor and play one of the summon effect shaders. If it's a summoned activator, you can have it cast a scripted spell at whatever target you want the summon to go to (or attack) by using a modified version of the following script:



That should get you what you're after.

Hi, just wondering why this script doesn't work. Six crystals are supposed to disappear and reappear alternately, casting a spell as they do so but they just sit there. Thanks.

scn aacrystalpfloat timerfloat fQuestDelayTimeshort time = 0begin gamemodeset fQuestDelayTime to 0.001set timer to time + getsecondspassedif (timer % 2 == 0)aacrystalp1.disableaacrystalp2.disableaacrystalp3.disableaacrystalp4.enableaacrystalp5.enableaacrystalp6.enableaacrystalp4.cast aaStandardDrainAttribAgility1Novice aacrystalp0aacrystalp5.cast aaStandardDrainAttribAgility1Novice aacrystalp0aacrystalp6.cast aaStandardDrainAttribAgility1Novice aacrystalp0endifif timer % 2 == 1aacrystalp1.enableaacrystalp2.enableaacrystalp3.enableaacrystalp4.disableaacrystalp5.disableaacrystalp6.disableaacrystalp1.cast aaStandardDrainAttribAgility1Novice aacrystalp0aacrystalp2.cast aaStandardDrainAttribAgility1Novice aacrystalp0aacrystalp3.cast aaStandardDrainAttribAgility1Novice aacrystalp0endifIf getdistance player < 500aacrystalp0.cast aaStandardDrainAttribAgility1Novice playerIf getdistance player < 250player.movetomarker 01011175endifendifend

First, do yourself and us a favor
When posting a script, show your indentation by using code and /code (don't forget the brackets - [ ])

scn aacrystalpfloat timerfloat fQuestDelayTimeshort time = 0begin gamemode	set fQuestDelayTime to 0.001	set timer to time + getsecondspassed	if (timer % 2 == 0)		aacrystalp1.disable		aacrystalp2.disable		aacrystalp3.disable		aacrystalp4.enable		aacrystalp5.enable		aacrystalp6.enable		aacrystalp4.cast aaStandardDrainAttribAgility1Novice aacrystalp0		aacrystalp5.cast aaStandardDrainAttribAgility1Novice aacrystalp0		aacrystalp6.cast aaStandardDrainAttribAgility1Novice aacrystalp0	endif	if timer % 2 == 1		aacrystalp1.enable		aacrystalp2.enable		aacrystalp3.enable		aacrystalp4.disable		aacrystalp5.disable		aacrystalp6.disable		aacrystalp1.cast aaStandardDrainAttribAgility1Novice aacrystalp0		aacrystalp2.cast aaStandardDrainAttribAgility1Novice aacrystalp0		aacrystalp3.cast aaStandardDrainAttribAgility1Novice aacrystalp0	endif	If getdistance player < 500		aacrystalp0.cast aaStandardDrainAttribAgility1Novice player		If getdistance player < 250			player.movetomarker 01011175		endif	endifend

I think your "time" var is not necessary. Besides, adding a short and a float is not a good practice.

Floats go to 6 decimals (I think it's that many...)
Doing XXXX == YYYY when XXXX is a short (integer) and YYYY is a float almost never is true.
It's better to use < or > to check.


I'm sure % means something, but I don't know what (atm, I may look it up later - i've never used it... not that that means anything...)


I do know though, your GetDistance statements are a problem. GetDistance from what?

They should be one of the two statements below:
player.GetDistance ref
ref.GetDistance player

According to the Wiki, the ref.GetDistance is more reliable when checking distance across cell boundries.

Is there any way to script in the summon effects you get with the undead summon spells?

Sorry about the messy code. The modulus (%) divides the variable by a certain number (in this case 2) and gets the remainder, so when the timer reaches an odd number, 3 crystals deactivate, 3 activate and when the timer reaches an even number the same happens. I removed the variable time (more of an oversight than anything else) and now 3 crystals just sit there casting the spell continuously. I had difficulty with this elsewhere trying to get things to disable then enable after a short delay. Any further help would be much appreciated, it would help my other scripts too.

Edit: The getdistance function is working perfectly so I probably shouldn't have posted it.

If getDistance is working then fQuestDelayTime is useless (it's only meaningful in quest scripts).
% is an integer operator, but timer is a float.
Consider something more like:

scn scriptfloat timershort statebegin gamemode  set timer to timer + getsecondspassed  if timer >= 1.0 ; swap between the two sets of crystals every second    set timer to 0    set state to (state != 1) ; if 0, sets it to 1. if 1, sets it to 0.    if state == 0      enable one set of 3 crystals and have them cast. disable the other 3    else      enable the other set of 3 and have them cast instead    endif  endifend

I've cracked it! The game seems to have trouble with enables/disables in the same script. I created two control objects, one with disables/enables for crystals 1-3 the other for crystals 4-6, they are regulated by a global variable set by the timer script. The game handles mixed expressions much the same as C++ so the modulus operator works fine on variables of data type float, baffled as to why I needed 3 different scripts though. Thanks for the help.

If you mean the "portal" that appears right above them when the appear, you can select that in the "Visual Effects" field of the script effect spell. You can also replace the SUMN.pms effectSummonMythicDawn line with another effect shader, although I can't find one specifically for undead.


I have a quick question of my own: How do I make an existing texture partially transparent?

If I use kill and disable in an OnLoad block on an actor that is spawned by a leveled list the actor will be deleted and replaced as usual when the cell resets even though he is disabled, right?



You need to use the alpha channel of the diffuse texture for that. The TriStips that use the texture also need an alpha property. Best is if you look at a cobweb to see how it's done (look at the alpha channel of the texture and the alpha property in the nif).

You're killing and disabling only the spawned the actor instance (which should have an "FF" id as generated in-game) as long as you use the implied run-time reference, and the leveled list spawn point (with your mod's load order byte first) should spit out another, unless you disable that by using an explicit compile-time reference.

Is there a way to show the player characters head when using SetFeMaleBipedPath (and for male of course)? The following example will show the PC wearing a fur helmet, but with no head what so ever:

set myitem to player.GetEquippedObject 0SetFeMaleBipedPath "Armor\Fur\F\Helmet.NIF" myitem

Ah ok...no wait, I didn't understand a thing. Bascially I'm doing the same thing they did in Crowded Roads (kill and disable unwanted actors that spawn from leveled lists), just want to make sure it doesn't cause problems. I have a few actors in a leveled list, each of these actors has a script with an OnLoad block. Depending on a certain percentage the actors will either spawn normally when the cell gets loaded or they will be removed instantly (they still spawn, but are killed and disabled immediately on load). What I want to achieve can't be done with the regular 'chance none' thing in leveled lists, that's why I need to go the kill+disable route. All I want to know is whether these actors will respawn normally on cell reset like dead actors that are not disabled (they get removed and new ones spawn from the leveled list).

the problem is that the undead portal effect isnt an effect shader, if you look at a summon undead magic effect its actually a linked nif file.



Depends what you mean, if you want the entire thing to be half see-through then you just have to modify the material settings in nifskope. If you only want bits to be transparent then you can either add an alpha channel or use an ersarer tool (llike in paint.net) to delete parts from the texture. Either way you will also have to add a niAlphaProperty to each of the niTriStripes/NiTriShapes.

Thanks! That got it, although I ran into what you might call a "gotcha". In the Block Details of the NiAlpha Property, there is a listing named "Flags". If the number in the "Value" column is not set to 237, the transparency effect will not occur.

Here is an image where the texture doesn't appear transparent. Note that the Flags value is 236.

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/700/notransparency.jpg

Here is an image where the very same texture does appear transparent. Note that the Flags value is 237.

http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/6776/transparentd.jpg

I tried multiple values and 237 was the only one that provided transparency.


What Ghastley is saying is, as long as the script is on the actor and not the leveled list, then the leveled list will continue to spawn actors as normal.

Okay, got a new question: If I want to remove the collision properties of an object (like a bookshelf) so that I can walk through it, what do I need to do?

The flag value is a code. If you click on the flag you will see a menu that pops up. There you can define the settings of the alpha property. Each of these settings has a number and all settings together make up the flag value. That is why some values work while others don't. 237 is the default setting, others that work and are often used are 4845 and 4333. There are lots of possible other combinations that work though, although the result might look strange. It's the same as with bsx flags, where you can see the code values behind the check boxes.



Open the mesh in Nifskope, right-click on bhkCollisionObject and choose 'remove branch'. You could also uncheck 'enable collision' in bsx flags or remove bsx flags completely if the object isn't animated, although that isn't needed (but may improve performance by 0.000001% ).



Thanks!

Lo, all. Is it possible to see the cell coordinates ingame? I seem to remember it is possible....

Open the console, type sdt 0, press Enter, then type tdt. The cell coordinate will be among the information on the right side of your screen.