Editing template flags in TES5Edit

[Furymgs]

Hey everyone! I'm having trouble with one of my mods which spawns a gargoyle that instantly kills me in Helgen Keep. From what I can tell, the issue comes from Skyrim Unleveled, and I found something which may be a potential fix:

 

It's been a while, I decided to try to look into this again.. this time my googling was more successful.
I found that Skyrim Immersive Creatures used to have a "gargoyle stalker" bug, and ended up finding this comment:

?Had a recurrence from the mysterious 'Gargoyle Stalker' bug, found the cause after some intensive sleuthing, if anyone has this issue and ended up here looking for an answer like me, as this mod had a similar problem prior to version 2.5 - the issues is that the default small gargoyle has a follow the player AI package, and if placed directly in the world by any mod, it will seek the player out no matter where they are or where it was placed.

The Gargoyles added by Dawnguard do not do this from all over the world because they are either added via a leveled character list or brought about a script or are summoned which avoid this particular all world reaching behavior.

Sounds more like an actual reason, although Skyrim Unleveled does place it via a... well, SU places an NPC whose template is a leveled NPC.

Edit: Took a look at what SIC does, and... I fixed it!
None of the other NPCs on that leveled NPC list use packages other than the small gargoyle... so, what I did was take LvlVampireCompanion (0001E7C8) and turn off the template flag "Use AI Packages". Alternatively, could make a new LvlVampireCompanion and use that, or just remove the package from the small gargoyle.

Tested by making new games (edited the list to always spawn a small gargoyle). Started in an inn with LAL, went outside, went inside. 3 times with the flag, 3 times without the flag. With the flag, gargoyle spawned every time. Without the flag, it did not spawn once.

 

Related link: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/75643?tab=posts

 

So I thought I was going to turn off the related "Use AI Packages" template flag, as indicated by the comment, problem is I have no idea how to do that. I've never done anything like that before, I only ever used TES5Edit to make Merged Patches like they say in all the guides. I'm assuming you're supposed to do it in TES5Edit in any case, and I did indeed find the 0001E7C8 ID in it, I can see a line that seems related in the View panel, but, uh, I'm not seeing any option to check or uncheck anything. I've linked a picture. The Referenced By tab also shows that an ocurrence of the gargoyle is placed by Skyrim Unleveled, but again, I'm not seeing any obvious way of solving the problem from there either.

 

I've tried looking around on the internet, but I couldn't find any explanation on how to do it. I've TRIED reading the TES5Edit doc, but I haven't seen anything that seemed to explain it either. Frankly, I couldn't understand much of it, so if it was there, I might have just glossed over it. Can anyone tell me how to go about my issue?

 

On a related note, I'm assuming this is the case but I'll ask anyway: when it's done, I'll have to remake a Merged and a Bashed patch, correct?

Edited May 27, 2022 by Furymgs

[IsharaMeradin]

According to your image, the record in question has only the stock instance. TES5Edit will not let you edit anything in the game plugins. You will need to right click on the record entry in the left hand panel and choose to "Copy as override into..." You will then need to choose either an existing plugin or a new plugin. At that point you can modify the flag setting in the record entry under your new plugin.

 

You will not need to redo a merged patch or bashed patch. If you opted to use an existing plugin, you will need to redo the change should that plugin ever be replaced for any reason.

[Furymgs]

Works like a charm! I don't get killed instantly anymore. Thank you very much!