antstubell Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Why do they? Walls, floors, buildings, ground...me. How can I stop this happening? Are there certain criteria for adding Dragons to World Space? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve40 Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Haven't played with dragons myself, but it appears that their navigation may be controlled by quest scripts and landing markers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Brasher Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I know that it is not a good thing to put a normal dragon inside a building. It will try to fly right through the walls and ceiling. A video game is just a rough simulation of the real world. As advanced as the game is, the collision is rather rudimentary. If the clothing and armor items all clip, and the solid pieces of metal armor stretch and bend, what would you expect to happen when a dragon flies into a mountainside? I think that dragons behave as they do because of their animations, their AI packages, and the positions of the idle markers on a dragon battle location. Due to time, money, and technological constraints, the programmers at Bethesda built the dragons this way. They look pretty darn good 90% of the time. And the 10% was a formidable case of diminishing returns that was pushed no further. So 90% was declared to be good enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porroone Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 They clip because they use the translateTo function to move, happens the same with my flying mod, and no, it cannot be fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antstubell Posted July 20, 2012 Author Share Posted July 20, 2012 They clip because they use the translateTo function to move, happens the same with my flying mod, and no, it cannot be fixed. How about using occlusion markers on buildings/mountains/objects you want the dragon to avoid? Would this restrict the player or is that only collision markers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porroone Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Well that could actually work, but you would probably have to script the whole thing. You can also create an array with all the objects you want your dragon to avoid, and make it constantly itinerate checking the distance of each element, that might do the trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antstubell Posted July 20, 2012 Author Share Posted July 20, 2012 Well that could actually work, but you would probably have to script the whole thing. You can also create an array with all the objects you want your dragon to avoid, and make it constantly itinerate checking the distance of each element, that might do the trick. I'll give it a go in a minute and let you know if it works. At the moment I need to figure out how to make an NPC ride a horse. Do you know? I have an NPC with a Patrol Package (4 xmarkers) and the package is checked True to "Ride Horse If Posible2 there is a horse next to him but he won't get on it, just walks the route. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antstubell Posted July 21, 2012 Author Share Posted July 21, 2012 Well that could actually work, but you would probably have to script the whole thing. You can also create an array with all the objects you want your dragon to avoid, and make it constantly itinerate checking the distance of each element, that might do the trick. I'll give it a go in a minute and let you know if it works. At the moment I need to figure out how to make an NPC ride a horse. Do you know? I have an NPC with a Patrol Package (4 xmarkers) and the package is checked True to "Ride Horse If Posible2 there is a horse next to him but he won't get on it, just walks the route. Adding occlusion blocks does nothing to help - quite the opposite. Dragon continues to fly through walls, floors, etc and the buildings and walls I put the blocks on disappear periodically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silencedoom Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 http://www.creationkit.com/How_to_avoid_dragons_flying_through_landscape Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts