Floating objects Swimming actors

Post » Sun Nov 18, 2012 9:25 pm

Hey guys!

I am really stuck on this one. I want to make birds swimming/floating on water for my birds of skyrim mod.

I have tried some simple things, but i have only gotten weird looking results. My best idea is to make some kind of platform for the birds to stand on, and then somehow script it to sit down indefinately. However, this will make the birds immobile, make players collide with invisible stuff while swimming, and i dont know scripting :tongue:

Anyways, i am just putting out this post in case somebody have a great idea to make this work 8)

Thanks for reading!

Qas

Edit: My birds are actors btw, not effect files.
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Post » Sun Nov 18, 2012 12:49 pm

There a checkbox on an Actor (or on a Race, I forget!) that sets whether or not it can "swim". If not ticked, then it won't eneter water at all. If ticked it will. (You may know that already?!)

Check out the deer and such like in game ... they swim (kinda). So it would be easy (I imagine) to get your birds to swim in the same way.

Note that, sometimes, swiiming deer don't look their best, in game!
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Post » Sun Nov 18, 2012 9:28 am

Yeah, i tried that once. Problem is that the birds will just do like for example the foxes. They become submarines. :dry:
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