Creation Kit follower casting spell on Dragonborn

[whonoes]

Hello All,

 

I have done a remake of Jordis for personal use with the creation kit. I thought it would be cool if when I went into sneak that she would cast either invisibility or shadow warrior invisibility. Ok I did that simple enough. However when playing around trying to figure things out she was casting shadow warrior invisibility on both herself and on me. I know for sure to stop her from casting on me I un checked PC Start Spell.

 

After playing around some I thought now that was very cool her casting shadow warrior on me and tried to get her to do it again and I cannot. I have changed the spell to a ability and none none for spell perk and casting with hands... PC Start Spell is checked. Of course under the spell effects I created new area that she is to use ability when sneaking.

 

I am at a loss of how to make her do this again... What am I doing wrong?

 

Thanks in advance for any Hints or Suggestions.

Edited April 14, 2012 by whonoes

[whonoes]

Ok can almost answer my own question. I post this in hopes of some clarification and to possibly help others.

 

I found that one does what I did and alters a spell it GLOBAL affects it even if not intended. I had 2 followers with shadow warrior invisibility defined to work when sneaking... They worked fine. I added the ability to a 3 rd follower and did not define it, just left it in natural form. I went back into game and hit the sneak button and the 2 followers did not go invs. Once I defined the 3rd character by adding the sneak they all went invs with the cloud of black smoke.

 

So this lead me to more experimentation. I changed one of the followers and took away the shadow warrior invs and gave her plain invisibility, re defined as a ability and had NO relation to any perks and did not require hands. IE NONE NONE in that area. She works just fine.

 

Figured ok I cannot figure this out so I will just cast invisibility on myself. DUH am lvl 80 and never bought the spell. So I go buy the spell read it and look in magic inventory and its not there. NO place at all... So I hit my sneak button and cast invs spell on myself. SHOCKED...more testing [have all sneak perks] I go into combat and start seeing black cloud around me... guessing here shadow warrior invs over wrote the plain invs.

 

So at this point all works just how i want it for ME!

 

the question is as I am very new to the creation kit is how do I clean it up where it would work for anyone else? Is it as simple as changing the ID from Invisibility to Invisibilty2 and doing the same for the name? Thus it would only affect follower. Then for dragonborn to get it I would have to make it a new spell?

 

Thanks once again for any help in advance.