Dressing NPCs - the easy way?

[Nekojin]

I was wondering. If you strip an NPC (either with the removeallitems console command or through a Mod), can you have the NPC wear the clothing of your choice by simply giving that clothing to them? If not, how would you go about getting them to wear a specific clothing item or set?

 

:thanks:

[DragonRose11]

In the construction set, you dress an NPC by simply adding those items to inventory. If attempting to do so ingame, I would suggest trying that first. I haven't tested it ingame, I'll get back to you tomorrow when I try just adding items to inventory ingame.

[Khadir]

I was wondering. If you strip an NPC (either with the removeallitems console command or through a Mod), can you have the NPC wear the clothing of your choice by simply giving that clothing to them? If not, how would you go about getting them to wear a specific clothing item or set?

 

:thanks:

 

For non-essential NPCs: Open up the console, click on them, kill them ("kill"), close the console, arrange their possesions to taste (or lack thereof), open the console again, resurrect them with the current possesions ("resurrect 1"), close the console, quick-travel to your current position. This should do the trick.

 

For essential characters, you have to make them non-essential first. It's easier with OBSE: Use the console to type "setrefessential 0" while having the NPC marked. If you don't have OBSE, you need to know their BaseID (easy to find on the UESP), and type "setessential BASEID 0".

[LFact]

For non-essential NPCs: Open up the console, click on them, kill them ("kill"), close the console, arrange their possesions to taste (or lack thereof), open the console again, resurrect them with the current possesions ("resurrect 1"), close the console, quick-travel to your current position. This should do the trick.

 

For essential characters, you have to make them non-essential first. It's easier with OBSE: Use the console to type "setrefessential 0" while having the NPC marked. If you don't have OBSE, you need to know their BaseID (easy to find on the UESP), and type "setessential BASEID 0".

 

Warning: If said NPC is needed for quest, your quest can be failed(or completed, if the said character needed to be dead for the quest), and you cannot undo it by resurrecting him/her. I rather suggest you to use this mod. And, any NPCs would wear more expensive clothing/armor. If you give cool-looking but low-price clothes and low-class clothes with insanely high price, the NPC would wear low-class clothes with high price.

[bben46]

Talkie Toaster's share and recruit mod allows you to give clothing to any NPC. You may have to take away their normal clothing for then to wear what you give them though. And I think any non essential respawning NPC, such as unnamed guards will resume their normal clothing/armor when the cell they are in resets. You do not need to recruit them to give clothing.

 

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3066

[burningwreckage00]

If you wanted to add items to npcs from the console, you'd type in:

 

if you already clicked on them -- additem (baseid) (amount)

 

if you already know their reference id -- "refactorid".additem (baseiditem) (amount)

 

If you want them to equip it, type in:

 

clicked on --- equipitem (baseiditem)

 

For those who already know the npc's id number: "refId".equipitem (baseiditem)

 

Note: npcs will probably already equip items like weapons or armor when they are added.

On your own character, after typing in equipitem ***** if you add "1" after, you will not be able to unequip the item unless you type in unequipitem *****. The game if you type in removeallitems instead.

Typing in resurrect on an npc whose items have be removed with the remove all items command will restore all the items they had attached to them in CS, whether they are dead or not.