Turns out it does work on creatures. Scruggsy confirmed this in the OBSE thread, and I've now tested it successfully.

As with weapons, it sets the creature's attack damage on the base object.

I've now successfully used this in a damage overhaul mod, so creatures aren't overshadowed by increased weapon damage (as tends to happen with Deadly Reflexes or other weapon damage boosters).

EDIT: And yes, Doc, this is built on top of your Normalized Weapon Damage mod. It works like a charm (although I use a different formula for weapon damage based on weight, speed, reach,price, etc). I've integrated it with the good parts of my Better Blocking mod... I'm very pleased with the results, and will release as soon as OBSE 19 comes out of beta.

@QQuix: Wow, thanks. That will save me a heap of time. Not that I mean to sound ungrateful, but I did notice that this doesn't include the IC. If you have that data somewhere else, that would be helpful too.

How do I get an NPC to defende other actors in the same faction?
I'm trying to get Galdrehel in Cheydinhal to react more realistically if I attack her dogs. The two dogs are already in the same faction and I added Galdrehel to the same faction. But she still doesn't react to me killing her dogs. Her Responsibility is 50. Does it need to be higher for her to react?

And while I'm at it, what effect does it have if a Creature is owned by an NPC?

I think the problem is that only an NPC can "raise an alarm". There's no mechanism in the engine for notifying a faction member if a creature is attacked, so there's nothing for her to react to. You'd have to steal the dog to get noticed. The only instance of ownership having an effect is for a horse (or ridable substitute), and the dogs don't qualify there either. However, in the case of horse, I think it is ownership, not faction, that matters (except where the owner IS a faction).

Yeah, I'd try setting the ownership flag on the dogs. I have had a lot of NPC's getting killed for attacking horses and it pretty much wound up being due to the ownership flag. You probably saw my comments in the NPC Friendly Fire thread.

Problem is that the dogs already are owned by Galedrehel, but it doesn't seem to have any effect.
If it did I was planning on making a mini mod to make the the dogs and their owner behave more realisticially and also give G some dialogue options which my male characters always want to ask her.

I was afraid you were going to say that (about dog ownership, not G dialog ). I wonder what the difference is between horses and dogs, then.

Would be a first person paralyze animation possible? I mean like the jump and crouch animations (I know only very little about animations :unsure: ). I get really annoyed by the constant "out of body" experiences. I mean, my char isn't dead yet! <_<

I think it's that you can steal a horse by riding it. There's no equivalent "steal" possible for the dog.

Since you can get kicked out of guilds for hitting your own horse during combat, it appears that a horse can report assaults. Maybe the answer is to make the dog ridable, but disallow that by attaching a script that says you can't in onactivate. That should get both attempted activation and damage reported.

That's because they have a Responsibility of 50. There is a mod that sets it to 0, to prevent horses from reporting crime.

Sounds like an overly roundabout way to solve this. How about a short script attached to the dogs with an "OnHit player" block that gives their owner an "Attack player" AI package? Alternately, a script on the owner that checks each frame if either dog is in combat with someone, and if so, triggers the AI package.

At a given in-game time, I want my companion NPC to make a random comment. This is my current code, which isn't working.



I have a feeling I'm missing something incredibly obvious-- either in my syntax, my understanding of if/else if, or the way GameHour needs to be used. Or, okay, possibly all three.

Checking via console verifies that I'm not even getting the variable to correctly increment, presumably since the SayTo isn't triggering. I've managed to make it work with trigger zones, rather than a given time of day, which makes me feel a shade less incompetent.

Paralyze is not an animation its an effect -> Hardcoded Effect.

Ow, that really hurts. :facepalm: I miss the good old "kiss the floor" when low on Fatigue from Morrowind. *sigh* Will have to grit my teeth and bear with it.

Thanks for the enlightening answer.

I'm surprised your script even saves properly. I see a few potential problems:


1. Most likely culprit: GameHour actually returns a float value, even though it appears to be a short. The CS wiki mentions this on the page on time variables. So GameHour will never match 12 or 13; it will always be 11.997, 12.00123, whatever. Even if it were a short, you should make the conditions be e.g. "GameHour > 12" instead of "GameHour == 12", since it's possible to skip over several hours while sleeping, etc without triggering this gamemode block.

2. That "else if" should be "elseif".

3. Is "cmValRef" defined anywhere? I assume this is what you've named the instance of your companion in the CS, but make sure that's true.

4. Your comment in the script don't match what it's actually doing. Even if the code worked properly, it would fire at noon, then reset the flag at 1pm, then fire the comment again on noon the next day, etc. But the comments imply that you want a new comment every hour.

5. Is this script attached to the companion? To a quest? If it's a quest, is the quest running?

How about this instead:

begin gamemodefloat lastCommentTimeif (GameHour > (lastCommentTime + 1))	cmValREF.SayTo player ValMudcrabs00 1	set lastCommentTime to GameHourendif	end

Viola, one comment per hour, as long as "cmValREF" points to somebody real.

How do I made an NPC flee after dialog with the player?

GameHour returns float value - That makes a lot more sense; checking it via the console should have clued me in, but I didn't make the connection. I'll also go over elseif / else if again; I keep forgetting that one adds another option, while the other actually starts a new block.

Script comment - That actually would be what I was aiming for, although I worded it badly-- a daily comment at X time, resetting an hour later, so that at that same time the next day, it will fire again.

cmValREF is defined already, yes-- ditto for attaching the script to a running quest.

Thanks not only for the script, but for the clarification on the multiple things I got wrong. It's much appreciated.

Take a look at Roleplaying Dialogues. It makes Highwaymen run away after certain dialogue options.

You bet. It's annoying that the CS catches about 90% of formatting errors, but then lets a few ones through. Also annoying that GameHour is advertised as a short, but is actually a float. Hope you get it working.

Final edit! - I finally figured it out-- and if I'd thought to start out just sit down and dissect others' work while using the CS, I'd've avoided all this. An auto-recharge, but reviewing MenuMode + GameDaysPassed + floats = successful code. I feel like an idiot, but I'm going to leave all this up, just to remind myself of the importance of doing my homework beforehand (but put it behind spoiler tags to keep from cluttering things up any worse). Thanks to all for their patience.


It's just trying to help us become better scripters. Really! Frustration is a learning tool!

Hi,

I've been making my own mod but I've come up with a problem. I need to try and make a group of NPC's attack another group of NPC's on sight. They are a group of Imperial gaurds and a group of Anvil gaurds. I'm not sure how to edit the NPC to make them attack others. If this is possible (or if it's not) can you please reply to this post telling me how to do this.

-----Thanks!

Want an NPC to approach and engage the player in converation, when the player enters the cell the NPC is in.

Got AI package type 'Ambush'

Location, BahCell at x marker

Target, Object 'Player'

This doesn't work. How should it be set up? Thanks!

What's not working, and how is the package conditioned/added? I don't see what's doing the "when the player enters the cell" bit.

Is there a way to get rid the dopey smiles on your followers' faces when you have a high disposition with them?

I've made a few CM Companions npcs, but when I Speechcraft or Bribe them to a high enough disposition that they join me, every time I talk to them, they get this queer, stoned smile on their faces. And the weird thing is, some of them get bigger smiles than others, even though their dispositions are all around the same values.
I've tried tweaking the faces in the CS (even dropped the happy/sad slider all the way down to sad so they frown all the time), but it doesn't seem to help at all. Is there some kind of AI setting I can use so they keep a little more serious look on their faces when I talk to them?

I know it's kind of trivial, but it bugs me when I round up my badass posse for some raiding parties, and they all show up looking like they just passed the dutchie to the left hand side.

That's just Oblivion facial expressions. Happens to all NPCs. Unless you fancy going around editing skeletons there's nothing that can be done about it.