Proof that a player can fly in Skyrim well may be more like swimming

[Skyes666]

I don't think it's a hover animation either. It's the same thing which happens to the Sabre Cat... When it stands still its feet are hovering a little bit. It goes up and down.

[mjy]

any way i can have a script to make my char glide down the mountain, i got a nice glider that i could use

[hex_ratt]

I was just watching the new Skyrim mods episode and it seems it has a hover animation in it. Check it out:

 

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=10809 (5:26)

 

Though it is for females, but I think for the start its better than a falling animation even for males...

 

Skyrim has animations that can be used for hovering player.

Edited September 30, 2012 by hex_ratt

[porroone]

there are a few animations that could work with hovering, this one for example "IdleT02AscendMale" its very cool, and even plays a nice sound, but locks the player controls, but something you guys said spark something in my head, how about if a play that animation and do a SetPlayerControls(true,true,true,..), Ill tell you how that goes.

Conclussion: it does not work as I expected lol.

EDIT2: seems like the function does nothing at all, COOL.

Edited February 26, 2012 by porroone

[Skyes666]

there are a few animations that could work with hovering, this one for example "IdleT02AscendMale" its very cool, and even plays a nice sound, but locks the player controls, but something you guys said spark something in my head, how about if a play that animation and do a SetPlayerControls(true,true,true,..), Ill tell you how that goes.

Conclussion: it does not work as I expected lol.

EDIT2: seems like the function does nothing at all, COOL.

 

How goes your progress?

[porroone]

Dead end.

[jimhsu]

So Saiden does apparently have a working mount (with flight and attack and all) but says his stuff is part of a much larger project. For mounting particulars, might want to ask him: http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1352563-wip-dragon-mount-requesting-help/page__p__20393725__hl__flying__fromsearch__1#entry20393725

[porroone]

Its not like he's showing any proof of that, maybe he is just showing off, I actually got something on the riding dragon process, found out something peculiar. In my early attemps of trying to make the dragonmount I found out how to make it rideable, adding a saddlebone to the skeleton with nifskope. Well thing is there is a function called SplineTranslateToRefNode, turns out with this function I can create my own riding system without having to set the dragon as ActorHorse, so on Activate I tell the player to play the ride horse animation and Translate to the SaddleBone of the dragon, it actually works, you fly with the dragon, but its a bit jumpy, here is the code, maybe somebody could tell me why.

 

Scriptname _DragonFly extends Actor  

Actor property Player auto
import utility
import form
import game
import debug
import ObjectReference

float Ride
float bearing
float elevation
float speed
float posx
float posy
float posz

auto State Idle
Event OnActivate(ObjectReference akSelf)
	Utility.SetIniFloat("fInAirFallingCharGravityMult:Havok",0)
	Player = Game.GetPlayer()
	Ride = 1
	self.SetMotionType(self.Motion_Fixed)
	if Ride == 1
		Fly()
		GoToState("Deactivate")
	endIf
endEvent
endState

function Fly()
while Ride == 1
	SendAnimationEvent(Player,"HorseEnter")
	
	self.SetAngle(Player.GetAngleX(),0,Player.GetAngleZ())
	if Player.IsRunning() || Player.IsSprinting()
		
		posx = Player.GetPositionX()
		posy = Player.GetPositionY()
		posz = Player.GetPositionZ()
		bearing = Player.GetAngleZ()
		elevation = Player.GetAngleX()
		if Player.IsSprinting()
			speed = 2000
		else
			speed = 1000
		endIf
		

		if bearing < 90 
			posx += (bearing)*speed
			posy += (90 - bearing)*speed
			
		elseif bearing > 90 && bearing < 180
			posx +=(180 - bearing)*speed
			posy +=(90 - bearing)*speed
			
		elseif bearing > 180 && bearing < 270
			posx += (180 - bearing)*speed
			posy += (bearing - 270)*speed
			
		elseif bearing > 270
			posx += (bearing - 360)*speed
			posy += (bearing - 270)*speed
			
		endif
		posz = Player.GetPositionZ() - (elevation*(speed*2))
		Player = Game.GetPlayer()
		
		
		Player.SplineTranslateToRefNode(self, "SaddleBone",0, speed,1)
		self.TranslateTo(posx,posy,posz,elevation,0,bearing,speed,1)
	else
		Player.SplineTranslateToRefNode(self, "SaddleBone",0, speed,1)
		self.StopTranslation()
	endIf
	
endWhile
endFunction

State Deactivate
Event OnActivate(ObjectReference akSelf)
	Debug.MessageBox("sup")
	self.StopTranslation()
	Player.StopTranslation()
	Ride = 0
endEvent
endState		

 

So basically what im doing here is use my flight code to move the dragon around while at the same time I tell the player to translate to the SaddleBone of the dragon, but its very jumpy, I think it doesnt handle 2 translate at once properly, so my idea is to play them at the same time, I just dont know how.

[Skyes666]

@porroone could you compile an ESP file which I can test?

[porroone]

What for? the script should be more than enough, just make a passive actor with a custom dragon race, that doesnt flies or anything like that, if you want I could upload the skeleton.nif with the saddlebone.