Undead NPC's

[TheOnlyJanitor]

What I'm thinking of is a mod that would add a few races, a ghost (similar to the ghosts in "knights of the nine") skeletons, and zombies as races, not neccisarily playable, but to replace the existing ghosts/zombies/skeletons in the level lists.

 

The reasons that I think these creatures should be npcs are as follows.

1. Dynamic Equipment (more than just weapons/shields)

2. So that spells or scripts that only effect npc's will affect them.

3. Better for use with CM Partners

4. Just plain cool.

 

I was thinking that for zombies in particular, they could use several "equipment" that would cause the appearance of say.. a bloody stump instead of an arm, or exposed ribcage or so forth. Maybe there could be head slot items like a missing lower jaw, or a tail slot item of sword stuck through the zombie. These shouldn't be playable items, because they would just be silly on a player character or other npc (not a zombie).

 

I'm not exactly sure how npc ghosts were handled by other mods, but that same technique could be used for this.

 

Skeletons on the other hand would be a little different, a lot of the vanilla games armor comes with a body parts showing. Example is the Huntsman's Vest, regardless of the body underneath it always shows the default bodymesh.. For skeletons this won't work so well, being as they are just bones.. Instead, skeletons could have special armors just for them, because I don't see any other way around this. Zombies don't have to worry about his as much, because the default armors will still take the zombies body texture. Zombies COULD have all their parts intact after all.

 

I think that zombies and ghosts will probably need their own special walk animations so they don't feel like everyone else.. but that's not really important compared to the big picture. If someone was really ambitious, a equip-able leg stump could be scripted to change the users walk animation to a hop or something, lol.

 

As usual with my mod suggestions, I have no plans of doing this, but I really like the idea so I throw it out to the community. And YES I understand that this would be a huge amount of work to make.

 

On the other hand, if anyone knows of anything that is similar to this that already exists, let me know!