SSE FYI making any NPC clumsy or sneaky

[cumbrianlad]

Hi. This could be really useful to you.

 

I've had major headaches trying to make an actor (dwarven spider) stealthy when the race has no sneak animations.

 

Finally, out of desperation I typed 'detection' into the filter in CK and hit 'all'

 

Up popped a perk MQ101increaseDetection.

 

Looking at it, it uses 2 perk entries, 'Mod Detection Sound' and 'Mod detection Light'. both were set to 2.00 in the perk, making the perk owner twice as easy to detect.

 

It turns out that you can use this to make the perk owner either easier or harder to detect. In this example the owner was twice as easy to detect. If both entries are edited to 0.50, that makes the owner twice as hard to detect.

 

Basically, select however hard/easy it is to detect your actor, then give them the perk.

 

Since it's taken me hours and hours of work and heartache to achieve this effect, I thought I should let you all know what i found!