Switch Gender / Race

[ThegreatQ]

Hi

 

I was trying to create a Quest in which the player and a kind of a male / female demon are put together in one person (anyone played Dark Messiah? Similar to what happes with Zana). So far I have generated the demon race. What I want to do now is to create a scripteffect based spell which when cast turns the player into the demon race of the opposite sex. Does anyone know which functions do this if it is possible at all.

 

Thanks for your help

[Vagrant0]

Hi

 

I was trying to create a Quest in which the player and a kind of a male / female demon are put together in one person (anyone played Dark Messiah? Similar to what happes with Zana). So far I have generated the demon race. What I want to do now is to create a scripteffect based spell which when cast turns the player into the demon race of the opposite sex. Does anyone know which functions do this if it is possible at all.

 

Thanks for your help

Not really possible. The sexchange command is one which causes a significant instability in the game. The OBSE function which uses this command is also similarly bugged. Due to how bodies and voices are setup in the game, I'd imagine it difficult to even make one gender look like another without things bleeding to everyone else. Armor and body meshes are seperated according to gender and don't allow much adjustment if you want any sort of flexibility. You culd certainly stick a male character into a female armor mesh, but depending on what body mods were installed and how that mesh was made, you might have some significant skin issues as it tries mapping male textures on a female mesh. A female using a male mesh (due to less skin showing) ends up working a bit better, but still has issues (aside from just looking wierd). This is of course ignoring the whole fact that when they are nude they will have either the male or female body, and when they speak, they will have either the male or female voice. Having this done with the player character makes things a little easier since you have less work involved with making dialogues, but still can cause issues.

[ThegreatQ]

Yes but when you open the racemenu with "showracemenu" then you can manually turn the player into every race and the opposite sex, no matter what clothes or armour you wear. Why doesn´t that work with one single skript?

[Vagrant0]

Yes but when you open the racemenu with "showracemenu" then you can manually turn the player into every race and the opposite sex, no matter what clothes or armour you wear. Why doesn´t that work with one single skript?

The race menu isn't script based, it's hard coded. You can't initiate any of those changes without having to force that menu to come up. And that menu only applies to the player character, not any NPCs.

 

As far as NPCs go, it seems like you can initate a sexchange, but the NPC cannot be in the currently loaded cell, and needs to be respawned after that change is made. Since this is a companion, both of those are things which probably won't work too well since scripting on the companion will only run while they're in the loaded cell, and respawning the companion will usually clear any changes, like inventory, or added packages. They however will use the body meshes and sounds of the other gender, but their face, skin and hair will look the same. If the NPC is in the loaded cell the game will crash, If they havn't been refreshed by the game (either through respawning or saving then reloading), the game will crash as soon as they are within the loaded cell.

[ThegreatQ]

Ok, suppose this means I will have to give up on that. What a shame...

Well thank you anyway