[LE] Give a horse orders like a companion without mounting

[Tasheni]

So after the problem with saddle and unsaddle my horse is solved, next step for enhancing this should be done and I need your experience with this matter.

I want the player to unsaddle or saddle the horse, when activating.

I set up the horse as a companion with own follower AI and the possibility to give him orders. But the point is his activation: Player has to mount, before he can reach the dialog. And that's pretty annoying. I found another post on nexus, with the same problem, but it was not solved. I looked at convenient horses, there saddles can be changed via MCM, but I don't want to use MCM, because this way breaks my feeling for reality. Of course I now can get my companions to do it for me, but if I have none with me? :(

Any idea would be pretty nice. I think, this has to do with the ActorTypeHorse, that somehow include the function to automatically mount. But I can't see how it will work, if I create a custom race. Perhaps there's a mod that does something similar? I was looking quite a lot but found nothing that I could look on.

 

Greetings, Tasheni

[IsharaMeradin]

Might be able to use a perk entry point and modify the activate behavior. I know that you can use it to perform tasks prior to normal activation or to prompt a choice between actions.

 

You could also use a token item that the player carries and that they can "equip/use" which could trigger the dialog without causing the player to mount. Vilja uses similar objects to allow the player to jump to specific topics or trigger idle chatter while walking.

[Tasheni]

Thank you, Ishara, for your quick reply. I've never heard about perk entry points before, that sounds quite good. Alsoa good advice to look at the tokens used by Vilja. I've not noticed them despite I'm often looking into the esp to learn how things can be achieved. So I will take a closer look now at these things. If I could get this to work, there will be so much possibilities to create things - wow, I'm curious. Thank you and happy modding:)