SSE Having custom animal follower use shouts and spells

[ZeroEscape]

Im currently making a custom animal follower and I am having trouble getting him to use spells and shouts.

Ive added the spells of choice to his spell list but in game it seems to have no effect. What steps need to be taken to make it so a animal uses these traits?

[Di0nysys]

They can't, not naturally anyway. Each race has their own 'equip slots'; ie they're each setup to be able to use specific types of equipment. You can work around that by adding OnHit magic effects in their Attack Tab, making spells trigger when the animal attacks. You can also use script to cast spells directly from them (without animations), but u'd have to set it up through polling or some other event based triggers.

These may be relevant.
http://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=Cast_-_Spell
http://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=OnCombatStateChanged_-_Actor
http://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=RegisterForSingleUpdate_-_Form

[ZeroEscape]

They can't, not naturally anyway. Each race has their own 'equip slots'; ie they're each setup to be able to use specific types of equipment. You can work around that by adding OnHit magic effects in their Attack Tab, making spells trigger when the animal attacks. You can also use script to cast spells directly from them (without animations), but u'd have to set it up through polling or some other event based triggers.

 

These may be relevant.

http://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=Cast_-_Spell

http://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=OnCombatStateChanged_-_Actor

http://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=RegisterForSingleUpdate_-_Form

So I am going to add a "attack spell" to one of the power attacks in the attack data but if I wanted to add a script that would make it so he uses the spell/shout can I make it so it raely ever happens?