xyks Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 (edited) Check out the dragon riding footage (starting around 40min) : http://www.gamespot.com/features/now-playing-live-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-dragonborn-6401016/?tag=Topslot%3bNowPlayingSkyrimDragonbornDlc%3bTheElderScrollsVSkyri The dragon is on rails, the player doesn't control the movement at all. What he can do is target enemies nearby and then command the dragon to attack. And the dragon will behave like dragons do when they attack villages and stuf...While I think that this is not too much of a bad idea for an attacking mechanic there obviously is some huge modding potential. So it got me wondering There are already mods for flying mounts out there. Of course I'm thinking pretty much about the flying broom stick mod, since I implemented a version of it to my Royal Bloodline mod thanks to the suport and help of J3X. Especially he gives permission to use his work as long as he gets credited correctly... I have to admit that I didn't follow all the post-release dragon mounts discussions very carefully, but from what I recall there were problems of hooking up the player model to the dragon models and some animations of course... From the way I see it this DLC should deliver those ressources though... What I love to see for dragon riding would be... that the DLC's mechanics still stay like this, but that by hitting a certain key one could enter the froam-roam mode. Meaning the flying mount script would kick in. If the player wants to attack an enemy he would need to switch back to the original mode by hitting the button again. Now, I have to admit that I'm far from being an ace at scripting, infact I couldn't have implemented flight into my mod without the script existing nor without J3X's help.I do think however that this could be a very epic mod, epsecially that since we have some of those ressources already and therefore I was figuring I'll share my thoughts on this one and see if there are any people interested teaming up or simply share their ideas as well. So give it a go ;) Edited December 4, 2012 by xyks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Els236 Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 I for one cannot wait to get my hands on this! I didn't even know it had been released :3 But I am in agreement that this is going to help and bring so much modding potential -- one thing that disappoints me is that we have been wanting this for ages and... only now do we get it :/ One mod that did shock me from pre-DLC times was "A Dragon Ride" that "fixed" Odahviing to be able to act like a follower and take you to all the major cities on his back (awesome mod)... I hope this can do that... but with mounts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack013 Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 i quite like it. you tell the dragon to do things and he does it. you could expand on it, multiple targets, more flying patterns, fly to x town, or whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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