SSE Idle markers + Walking around interior cell for dog

[MxPhantom]

I'm currently using a player house mod and when I assign dog followers to it with NFF they just stand in place and don't do anything. Is there something I could do in the creation kit to make the pupper wander around the house, lay down in a specific spot?

[Sphered]

Boils down to what AI they are using at the time in question. Being unacquainted with the mod you are using, I can only assume the dog isnt being instructed to do anything, or is instructed to exactly stand in place. You would want to enable sandboxing or a similar routine for their AI. If the dog is aliased and using a package attached to that alias, that package is the one you want to modify

 

Changing a pack is a relatively simple chore, but you have to know what you are doing to some extent first, before you can know you are changing the right things. I might suggest before worrying about that, to first check if your mod simply offers options for idle behaviors. Might already be built in, and may simply not be enabled at the moment

[MxPhantom]

Yeah, it normally works fine, it's just in that cell in particular that the dog just...stands in place rather than idles. I'll check it out, thank you!

[maxarturo]

Sandboxing/idle while waiting does work only on actors that they have the appropriate settings in their 'behavior file', if you for example add a sandbox package to a spriggan, the spriggan will just stay in place because it dosen't have anything in its behaivior file, this also applies for slaughterfish and i think also for dogs.

[Hanaisse]

There is a "DogLayingDownIdleMarker" (under Misc > IdleMarker in CK) that you can toss around the player home to see if the dog will use them. I'm not sure how NFF sets up the sandboxing for followers so not sure if they will use or not.