Sitting/Laying Characters

[TESMWAddict]

Anyone know how to create characters which sit or lay on furniture?

[Peregrine]

I'm not sure it's possible, since the game engine doesn't have an animation at all for sitting. But if you're talking about a character that is permanently seated, you could just make the model in the seated position and set the AI not to move.

[cmac]

Here is a mod that offers sitting NPCs. I have not tried it myself, but I heard it is somewhat poorly done.

[ohGr]

well, if you have 3d studio you can make some new aminations, although...its incredibally hard to animate, since i just made a dolphin jump through a loop last night, it took me all night to get done, and half of it was screwed up.

so, if you intend to animate it, good luck, youll need it

[Peregrine]

What I mean is there's no animation in the game engine. The game just doesn't have any spot for "if npc comes within sitting disance of a chair", so there would be nothing to tell it to use the animation.

[ohGr]

but you can put that in the game cant you, because ive noticed, you can see the animation names.

[Peregrine]

Right, you could make an animation of a person sitting and attach it to some other animation slot (swinging a sword, for example). But what you can't do is get the context right and get a person to sit at the right time and in the right place. The game engine just doesn't have something like "when distancetochair = 0, play animation 'sit' and don't move".

[adamized01]

So adding sitting/laying/etc to the game would require an extreme amount of work and require creating new animations? Sounds like an good team project to me.