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Nifskope is best imo unless you are very comfy with other modeling tools. You can copy a skeleton nif to your desktop, then take skin and armor nifs, and via nifskope, copy/paste the shapes onto the skeleton till you get the appearance you want. From there, you need only create your pose. Simplest way is to play with the skeletal node positions and angles, albeit the custom pose step here is very time consuming. A faster way to skip manual posing is if you have 3DSMax. You can attach a keyframe animation (converted from hkx) into a nif via niskope, then export from nifskope, then import that nif into Max and then export from Max as a still model. This procedure is niche and kinda oldschool and my own method I came up with. I wanted this type of content years ago and played with stuff till I found a way to do it Edited since I realized 3DSMax is needed for this route regardless. Most of the work is in Nikskope though

Is it behavior based appearance changing. Or are they using a visual enchant. Or are they changing race. Etc. These details kinda matter. Might be AI package related, or a graph, or other

The moisture detection routine def requires being relaxed mentally about how precise it will be, since the game only worries about one active weather at any given time: The player's immediate surroundings at the moment. If you are away from the barrel for a few hours, the weather is null aka none aka no rain since you aren't there for it to diceroll a random weather to use. So in that situation, when you return to that area, see if it happens to be raining. If not, you could do a random int chance regarding if it rained or not before you got there Gotta make due with what you can. Good call on the puddles idea too. Same concept really

That's an under-the-hood process we don't have access to. Basically SKSE territory, and that's a niche capability I doubt exists in any SKSE mods

You could let it just always be an activator. Attach a script to it to detect moisture. One way off the top of my head, is you could make a formlist with all the weather types that have rain involved. When detected that we are having rainy weather, you can have a visual effect play on the barrel to make it look slick and/or full of water Bool IsRaining = OurFormlistWeMade.HasForm(Weather.GetCurrentWeather()) If IsRaining SomeRoutineToWaitABit() PlayWhateverWetVisualEffect() Endif Then an OnActivate() etc event to remove the effect, and give you water, after you activate the wet barrel Interesting concept btw

Best I believe you can do is Input.TapKey() to automatically turn pages, but that will take a moment. No way to just open it at custom page

Bool InTheSameAreaA = WhateverRef.GetCurrentLocation() == PlayerRef.GetCurrentLocation() Bool InTheSameAreaB = WhateverList.HasForm(PlayerRef.GetCurrentLocation()) Bool InTheSameAreaC = WhateverMapMarker.GetDistance(PlayerRef) < 5000.0 Many ways to scan, and perhaps all the above are not ideal. Depends mainly what your specific goal is, before good specific advice can be offered, but above are some ways to wing it with proximity

For the actual key tap you can try this input script Input.TapKey(Input.GetMappedKey("Right Attack/Block")) It will keydown and keyup your attack button. Test this to see if that releases the arrow while you are still physically holding said button. Never tried that and can't test atm so have to just see

I don't believe that is an active feature in Skyrim For models you want to merge together, use Nifskope imo

Answering the headline real quick since didnt see this mentioned Event OnSpellCast(Form akSpell) Int FirstEffectCastType = (akSpell as Spell).GetNthEffectMagicEffect(0).GetCastingType() ; Constant Effect 0 ; Fire And Forget 1 ; Concentration 2 So if the above Int = Two you know it is concentration so do whatever. Anything other than two do nada

Ref translation does not require 3d be loaded actually. The issue you might have is motion type like dynamic or keyframe, which that does needed 3d to change Any other clarity needed let me know

Solid example from I what I used a ton back when. Needs XEdit for you to do modify the attached fragment labelings, and also to renumber IDs so it can identify itself. In this case I use a SKSE call to check the last digit, so naturally this means numbering the ids in a sequential manner like below. I liked this method quite a lot, was a huge headache saver ScriptName EZTopics Extends TopicInfo Hidden Function Fragment_0(ObjectReference akSpeakerRef) Int RequestID = StringUtil.SubString(Self,StringUtil.Find(Self," on") - 1,1) as Int) If RequestID == 1 (akSpeakerRef as Actor).SetPlayerTeammate() ElseIf RequestID == 2 (akSpeakerRef as Actor).SetActorValue("WaitingForPlayer",1.0) ElseIf RequestID == 3 (akSpeakerRef as Actor).SetActorValue("WaitingForPlayer",0.0) ElseIf RequestID == 4 (akSpeakerRef as Actor).OpenInventory() EndIf ; Etc EndFunction

You got me curious so I messed with the concept a little bit. Short version is I got it to work, but making it "flow" visually in an immersive not-ghetto manner... yeah this is probably why they left bound bow usage in a beta-like status, lol. Its clunky at best imo without giving this more time than it should need to perfect it visually What makes this so messy is the need for more than just a bound weapon. It also needs the ammo which for npcs can make AI be fussy if you add items to their inventory after they enter combat. If the ammo is there before combat then they will wear that bound quiver most of the time out of combat which is def a visual clash imo Your follower could benefit from being a custom race if only for the ability to turn off certain weapon types, but you might be able to work around that. Otherwise I suggest giving your follower a script or an ability or an alias script so you watch when they enter combat and exit combat. This concept def needs semi-precision timing of things like casting bound bow, and the right moment to add arrows and have them draw weapon, etc in an immersive way, and to reliably use the bow. There are a lotta ways from here to play with it and make it neat but its really in preference territory from here Too wordy but anyway that was fun to mess with for a little bit heh. Good luck

There are NPCs in the creation kit that use bound weapons. You can try copying one of them as a base, and change the spell to bound bow. Might have to tweak what combatstyle they use and other things. Just basically a non-finalized concept Bethesda threw in, that can work, but will need trial and error testing

Pretty much it has to be a key then. Those cannot be dropped, and as long as there is no lock in the game that it would unlock, it would never go away. It can also have a script, so can listen for events

Common route for that is to store that item property at the quest level script and call it from there Game.GetPlayer().AddItem((GetOwningQuest() as NameOfTheScriptOnTheQuest).TheItemPropertyWeBuiltIntoThatScript) There are a few ways to do it. You could also just give it to the player alias inventory. And when aliased, the item will get added

Yeah this is not something that one just "does" real quick. You are in 3DSMax levels of territory, aka no sane way to do something like this in Skope etc. Would need to basically rebuild the skin for each hair you want to do this for. Then there is adding the physics components which you would probably want to look for detailed guides and possibly a discord server etc to get some pointers. Sadly none of this is even close to beginner-friendly and very time consuming even for those that know how to do it

Just tested and yeah changing skin will visually update if you do UpdateWeight() after setting skin. Sorry on the AR BR I skim a lot and assumed you were talking about armor terms lol

The torch component would be particularly quirky to pull off. If SKSE was in play, you could registerforcontrol upon entering a trigger area near the wood or root or whatnot, and when block is hit, aka you nudging your torch, and x distance away, that could be detected. But you could well maybe have an animation to listen for, which would not need SKSE Previous me from a couple years ago would prolly solve this really well for you lol. Used to spend way too much time with Papyrus and I enjoy solving things with out of the box thinking. Sadly I dont believe there is really an exact method that will fully encompass every feature you are wanting for this project. I like where your imagination is though

Prolly would want to use XEdit here Make the aliases. Eat the long names for a moment until they are all created. Save and close CK and touch up names etc in XEdit. Lot faster, albeit will need to be done manually. As for preventing this annoyance entirely, not so much. Could well be a nifty XEdit script out there to streamline this but yeah kinda just one of those things templates are good to keep around for

Helpful reply edit. If you want this you could make a staff with no 3d aka just a blank object that will not be seen. Give it no enchant. Equip it forever in the hand you want to not do anything. When you attempt to use the staff it wont do anything since no charge and no melee attack available. The only real visual quirk would be you still "draw" it but imo it would look less bad than fists up Empty

Could use a formlist with all the valid spells that qualify for the criteria. And do a HasForm() call to check for a hit

I know what you are aiming to do, and yeah at times I want the same thing, to not worry with a swarm of texture sets Use Nifskope for this. Take meshes you want to reroute textures for and do it there in the shader properties in skope Very quick and easy once you see how. Just have to get acquainted with that app

SKSE functionality is not supported for consoles And sorry if I misunderstood something

My blueprints mod does this and is literally all it does. LE only tho I dont have ez access to SSE atm Aside, this is pretty basic to do anyway. Make a headpart record in a plugin. Point it to the high poly head nif and tri. In your follower's nif file 00000999 whatever.nif file you need to edit (nifskope) the name of the head to match whatever you called it in the ck Dont need the races and chargen tris. This sounds harder than it is. If you have the gen mesh, this is a trivial issue regarding semantics