Skyrim SE: How to Make a Spell/Scroll to "Convert one NPC into Another" or to "Resurrect a Dead NPC as a 'Living Version'" triggered by the end of a quest stage?

[Gorgopis]

We have seen existing mods that do something close to our subject line, but we would like to practice this mod-making goal.

Thanks in advance for any tips from the black-belts.

G/M73

[dylbill]

To "convert" an NPC into another, just disable / delete the npc and use PlaceActorAtMe or MoveTo to replace it with another. I use resurrect in my NPC Death Alerts mod. Here's how I do it. npcdeathalerttransferchest is just an empty container base form.

                    objectreference transferchest = npcdeathalertchestref.placeatme(npcdeathalerttransferchest, 1)

                    armor helmet = victim.getwornform(0x00000001) as armor

                    armor clothes = victim.getwornform(0x00000004) as armor

                    armor gloves = victim.getwornform(0x00000008) as armor

                    armor amulet = victim.getwornform(0x00000020) as armor

                    armor ring = victim.getwornform(0x00000040) as armor

                    armor boots = victim.getwornform(0x00000080) as armor

                    armor shield = victim.getwornform(0x00000200) as armor

                    armor circlet = victim.getwornform(0x00001000) as armor

                    utility.wait(0.2)

                    victim.removeallitems(transferchest, true, true)

                    ;utility.wait(0.2)

                    ;transferchest.activate(playerRef)

                    utility.wait(0.75)

                    victim.resurrect()

                    utility.wait(0.75)

                    victim.removeallitems()

                    utility.wait(0.2)

                    transferchest.removeallitems(victim, true, true)

                    utility.wait(0.2)

                    if helmet != none

                        victim.equipitem(helmet)

                    endif

                   

                    if clothes != none

                        victim.equipitem(clothes)

                    endif

                   

                    if gloves != none

                        victim.equipitem(gloves)

                    endif

                   

                    if amulet != none

                        victim.equipitem(amulet)

                    endif

                   

                    if ring != none

                        victim.equipitem(ring)

                    endif

                   

                    if boots != none

                        victim.equipitem(boots)

                    endif

                   

                    if shield != none

                        victim.equipitem(shield)

                    endif

                   

                    if circlet != none

                        victim.equipitem(circlet)

                    endif

                   

                    utility.wait(0.2)

                   

                    transferchest.disable()

                    transferchest.delete()

[PeterMartyr]

Just wanna point out there is 30 (?) equip slots and a million mods with random equip slots, but above it is a start, expect buggy behaviour in a modded game with NPC that is wearing mods,  but that is the gist of it for vanilla)

I would take note of body slots they using, and  if it contains Clothing or Armor keywords, store it in a form array that is a  private variable (big hint) for later on, transfers all items EVERYTHING, weapons unequipped clothing and armour, money projectiles bread and food, etc.. to the Aela Lycan Chest Clone, give that to resurrected NPC,  then using the array (see below: Major Biggy) to make them equip all their Nexus currently equipped item when they died, could be any body slot  under the sun modded attire, with extra not worn armour in the inventory ignored

Next is maybe get some stats from the NPC too... I never done this, but that springs to mind too since it is obvious we are replacing the levelled actor with the base actor, I have not done this in Skyrim, or if getting the stats is required, and no ideal if there way to resurrect a levelled actor, without using SKSE and Console Utility. 

But has you can see, it did get me thinking.)) and I left it all to you to work out tooooo, enjoy

And this is Major Biggy, learn how use arrays and  loops too.. doing that 60 times is repetitive  alliteration is awesome, until you learn about recursion anyway 

That should be challenge to a novice)) and OFC requires SKSE, but see if you can the above code working before you tackle that.

Plus if you never get working, don't feel bad, that is fairly advanced, but what you need to account for in a modded game)

 

 

BTW the reason I mentioned the Aela Lycan Chest Clone is 90% of what Nexus Modders do is just copying Bethesda, so just study the game) this is good example, she turns into a werewolf, with no inventory, turns back human with inventory intact, see the similarities? It is just the vanilla swap race code with a resurrected twist. Plus if it is a Follower, the above code is pointless, they auto equip, so different strokes for different folks)) needs to taken into account.

 

EDIT remember bugs is bad code the fails to take all things into consideration... You can also handle if SKSE is installed or not)) but that not gonna help with mods, you still end up with buggy code in vanilla game that you have no way to fix, because of random body slot Mods,  so just make SKSE a  prerequisite, to stop you looking bad))

EDIT #2 OFC you can all that vanilla, but the code would ugly.. an advance coder would like it elegant.

Something to study, see if it makes sense to you

Spoiler

Scriptname AliasOutfitScript extends ReferenceAlias  

Outfit Property _Poup_DummyOutfit Auto

Form[] WornREF

Event OnLoad()

	Actor SelfREF = self.GetReference() as Actor
	Int nIndex = WornREF.length
	While(nIndex > 0)
		nIndex -= 1	
		SelfREF.EquipItem(WornREF[nIndex])
	EndWhile
EndEvent

Function SetOutfitNone(Actor akActor)

	ActorBase akActorBase = akActor.GetBaseObject() as ActorBase
	akActorBase.SetOutfit(_Poup_DummyOutfit)
EndFunction

Function ClearAllForms()

	WornREF = none
	self.Clear()
EndFunction

Function SaveWornForm(actor akActor)

	self.ForceRefTo(akActor)
	WornREF = new Form[34]
	Form EquippedForm
	Int nIndex = 2
	Int nStore = 0
	While(nIndex > 0)
		nIndex -= 1
		EquippedForm = akActor.GetEquippedObject(nIndex)
		If(EquippedForm as Weapon); Only!
			WornREF[nStore] = EquippedForm
			nStore +=1
		EndIf
	EndWhile
	nIndex = 62
	While(nIndex > 30)
		nIndex -= 1	
		Int SlotMask = Armor.GetMaskForSlot(nIndex)
		EquippedForm = akActor.GetWornForm(SlotMask)
		If(EquippedForm)
			WornREF[nStore] = EquippedForm
			nStore += 1
		EndIf
	EndWhile
	WornREF = (censored) resized to current size not capacity
EndFunction

 

 

[PeterMartyr]

By the way that script is not a solution to your question, but answers a lot the question I raised) it needs to be adapted to your case) so it is good working exercise) 

EDIT LOL I just realised the script I posted broke the MYTH that ARRAYS cannot be resized)) OFC they can be resized)) I can even do it vanilla with out SKSE with 128 capacity max being the only differences 

EDIT #2 did I just say 128 is not array limit with SKSE? LOL, I am removing advance code)

EDIT #3 the reason is, the Game Try and Catch (papyrus log) mechanism  cannot catch it and stop it from running, since it use a (censored) datatype, not in the vanilla game,  so bad code will run regardless and has the chance to damage your hardware, that why I censored it, novice should not be aware of this code)

[Gorgopis]

Thank you, these are helpful directions.  

We have done some novice scripting, some spell-making/enchanted-weapon-making (our "time-out" bow, for example),

and some simplest vanilla-NPC editing/"replacement" (a private Aerin-replacer, for example). 

Off to the Lab, to experiment!! Gracias!