Lavafish

[lgpmichael]

As part of one of the side quests for The Hole, I have a scenario where the player, who has temporarily obtained the ability to resist the damage from lava, is happily swimming along through the lava and they come across some of a new creature, a Lavafish.

 

However it doesn't attack.

 

It is simply a slightly updated slaughterfish, nothing fancy except a nice new effect shader and the ability to not die in lava.

 

It just sits there and ignore the player. If I change the water in the cell from lava to normal water, it goes crazy and attacks.

 

So, it seems there is something unusual about how lava is handled.

 

I can't see anything in any documentation, I can't find any other mod that has tried this, but - I am hoping - has someone here seen this happen and know of a workaround?

[PrettyMurky]

Weird. Not sure what's causing it, but it could be worked around by adding a Gamemode script to them that 'startcombat player'; maybe with a check to see if they have detected the player. Unless the problem is caused by how visibility is calculated in lava. If it still doesn't work, add in a message telling you what their detection level of the player is and see what that says.

[lgpmichael]

Weird. Not sure what's causing it, but it could be worked around by adding a Gamemode script to them that 'startcombat player'; maybe with a check to see if they have detected the player. Unless the problem is caused by how visibility is calculated in lava. If it still doesn't work, add in a message telling you what their detection level of the player is and see what that says.

 

Yeah I'd tried to startcombat and nothing happened.

 

Ive just taken your suggestion and checked the detection level and it is at 3, so it has definitely seen me. I am suspecting that the problem is it only 'swims' in 'water' and as this isn't water it doesn't allow swimming in. Another of the wonderful swimbugs in Oblibion it seems {:-(