Horse Whistle is a simple http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1292671-rel-script-dragon/ plugin that makes your horse walk to you.

Requirements
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1292671-rel-script-dragon/

Download
http://skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1767

Installation
(After installing ScriptDragon) Copy 'horsewhistle.asi' and 'horsewhistle.ini' to your Skyrim install directory.

Configuration
Change horsewhistle.ini to the key you want to use to whistle for your horse. The default key is Numpad 4. (There is a list of keycodes in the .ini file.)

How You'll Know It's Working
In the game, it will print a message telling you it has started.
Like this: "[Horse Whistle] started, press Numpad 4 to use"

Known Issues
I currently cannot find a way to make the horse path to your location at anything faster than the slowest walk speed. If anyone wants to poke around and fix this, I've uploaded the http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DTWSTPEC (drop into pluginsrc directory and add to the scripts.sln Solution in Visual Studio, copy horsewhistle.asi from the tmp\horsewhistle directory after building).

There is a console/scripting command already in place to toggle running/walking. I dont remember what it is, but it's something like "set forcerun 1"

I can't find anything like that on the http://uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Console.

This mod is a cool idea. It's always annoying when you dismount your horse to fight enemies, get in over your head, and then wind up about what feels like a mile away from where you left your horse. I'm surprised they didn't implement a horse whistle mechanic, since they stated that Red Dead Redemption was one of the inspirations for features in Skyrim, and I know that horse whistling was a feature in Red Dead Redemption.

The UESP isn't giving a full list of scripting commands, obviously. There are commands to force sneak and to force run. They've both been around since Morrowind and were in Skyrim as well as Fallout.

It's SetForceRun.

I'm guessing this only affects the player. In any case, it's not in ScriptDragon right now.


Edit: Tested it in game, doesn't do anything to the horse ("SetForceRun 1" prints "SetForceRun >> 0.0" in the console, and the horse doesn't move any faster).

I was going to request something like this. I hate having to choose between either 1 min walking back to my horse or fast traveling to have him show up.

Why would you guess that? If it only affected the player, why would I tell you to use it?

Remember in the beginning of Morrowind, when Fargoth sneaks to his hidden stash? SetForceSneak. The scripting commands work, you're just not using them properly.

I just realized that you can hold down use key on companions to get them to do things without going into dialog... so I think implementing some type of whistle would be awesome. ( and make companion horses too )

If SetForceRun isn't working anymore in Skyrim, there must be an alternative method. One I cant think of off the top of my head was in Oblivion, ForceRun was a binary value in each AI package. If you can edit the AI package record, you could toggle Forced Running there.

we need a Lydia-whistle

It doesn't work in conjunction with PathToReference. I've made it work one time, and I have no idea how, can't replicate it at all, with successful SetForceRun/SetPathSprinting etc. calls.

I looked into doing this, don't think I can until the CK is out at least.

I've seen NPCs run to specific references in-game before. When you order your companion to perform a specific action they do walk, but there has to be a way to change that.

I've been trying to replicated whatever happened during the one test session where the horse actually ran. No dice so far.

Maybe it's just me, but anytime I get too far away from say Lydia, I'll hold the sprint button, and she will automatically start sprinting towards me. Have you tried this to see if the horse will do it as well? I'm assuming it's "following you" like a follower does in order to get it to come to you?

I looked at setting it up to use the package for the AI that makes them follow you. It appears the API for ScriptDragon doesn't current support it (EvaluatePackage seems to take a package in game (though I can't get it to work in the console) but in SD's API it only takes the actor as a parameter).

Thanks for the beginnings of a great mod.

Would it be possible to simply use "SETAV SPEEDMULT XXX" instead of ForceRun to increase the movement speed of the horse when called?

Having Speedmult set to 200 for example is 2X faster than the default 100 movement speed.

Only issue is the animation would still probably show it walking, except really really fast

And it might not work on "creatures", only NPCs/Player.

If I'm not mistaken, he mentioned trying that in the official ScriptDragon thread, and said it didn't work.

My only suggestion, which would work, but might be a tiny bit jarring, is to teleport the horse a short ways behind the player, then have the horse walk to him. This would avoid having long wait times. Not the most optimal solution, but one that may work for the time being.

Yeah unfortunately SpeedMult doesn't work (or rather, it doesn't set the horse to run mode). Also, I did try to make it teleport first, but I was having issues with it not pathing after it teleported. I'll test it more tonight and put up a new version that does this.