ISO Help Making NPC Statues

[sicknesseater]

So. i am trying to make some basic statues of NPCs. ALl i really want is an assortment of characters just sitting as if they were ina chair, totally unmoving. That is it. I need sitting npc statues. Bethesda has a mod that covers this but I weirdly can't find anything suitable on Nexus. I can't use the Bethesda mod because it heavily interfewres with everything else I use from nexus (no one likes corrupted save files). In an effort to fix this issue I have loaded up the Creation Kit in an effort to maybe fashion my own NPC ststues. Woudl anyone know how to go about this? I honestly am not sure. Alot of the Crreation Kit looks like it is going to be pretty easy to udnerstand. i have more or less mastered deleting/placing/rotating crap. But I have no idea hwo to go about making an NPC sit permanently. And I have actually tried just killing them and aranging their bodies against a chair in an upright position. it did not work. I also had problems with keeping the bodies in one usable piece. So if anyone knows how to make a place-anywhereable sitting person ststue in creation club or if you have nay other suggestions, I will be open to them. I seriously don't want the statue to do anything. I need no dialogue. Ideally it will just friggin sit forever. Please let me know if you have thoughts on this.

[ShabnamHoward]

If you want a static mesh, then why not pose it in 3dsMax using the rigging, then export your posed nif? I have not done this, but am guessing from all the 3ds - nif youtubes that I have been watching that this may be the fastest way to get what you want.

 

I thought about this and take back my suggestion. You want specific NPC characters, so you would somehow have to output the NPC with all its morph settings and its clothes into a Nif or set of nifs. If you are content with random other characters, I recall Nightasy doing a youtube on how to output from Daz3d to Skyrim nifs. I think it was just clothes though but it seems to me that Daz will export the whole model (and there are a LOT of daz models) and clothes with their pose into any number of output formats. Again- I am a total novice dealing with meshes, so these speculations may go nowhere.

 

OTOH, there are some mods that (Homemaker? SKE?) that allows you to set a station for an NPC. You assign them to the station, and they will sit and drink or stoop and work on some machinery etc.

 

They will not be statues, but they will remain in position if that was your objective.