LE Better timed/appropriate combat music mod

[Thingamajig]

Hi all.

I'm sick of combat music playing when i'm not in any real danger.

An example of this: Was in riften, a thief stole something, ran off, and because i was in the general proximity, combat music played even though i didn't actually participate in stopping him. just witnessed the fight between the thief and general populace/guards of the town.

So this gave me the idea: Skyrim needs a mod that makes Combat music play not only based on aggro/threat level (as it does now) but it also needs to check if the player takes damage.


This should in theory, make Combat music play ONLY after two steps (rather than 1, as it does in the original game):

1. the hostile NPC is of a respectable threat - as it does in vanilla

2. Player loses health - how much isn't important, 1 HP is enough.


Once these two steps are confirmed, battle music plays.


This should get rid of those moments where combat music starts when you're not doing anything of any real danger, or even worse when combat music plays and refuses to stop even though no enemy has harmed you.

This should be pretty easy to mod in from my experience. Alas, i don't have the scripting know how nor time to properly make it and test it out. So it would be cool if someone with a little time made this mod.

[verteiron]

I've built a mod that does something very similar but did not find your post here until just now (while googling for something else). It does not engage combat music unless the player is directly targeted by an enemy, the player has seen or been hit by that enemy (so you are no longer alerted to an attack by combat music), or the player has made the first strike. In all cases, the music plays only if the total health of all enemies adds up to at least 1/3 the health of the player (a value which can be changed).

 

It's called Smarter Combat Music, and it has quite a few other features, as well. Enjoy!