I am creating an animal hospital, and I'm trying to make it such that there are bedrolls where several animals will lie down.
What I'm doing hasn't worked, which is to make a bedroll with ActorTypeAnimal as the user keyword.
Basically I want animals that lie down, don't get up, but aren't dead.

Anyone have any ideas?

Well, there are laying down markers that would be very simple to use but I'm not sure if they work with animals (or maybe there is another marker for them).

There are separate idle markers for the animals. Laying down is evidently one of the idles. You see them lying down when they are idling.

As ch0k3h0ld said, there are idles for the animals to lay down and I actually think it works. I used some in my house so my dog would lay down next to the fire and next to the bed and they seem to work... (he lays down everywhere else too, so it's hard to know for sure.)

But, I'd suggest you use an AI Package anyway. Make an actual marker for the package and control the behavior in the package. (Then, if your dogs get a miraculous cure, you can update the package for them to get up and run-around

Thanks, as it turns out its just called AnimalLayingDownIdleMarker

EDIT: NVM, this apparently works only for sabrecats.

Granted, I tend to use scripting for problems that have engine-based solutions, but... could you just add a script to the relevant animals that plays their lying down idle animation, and then use SetUnconscious to keep them from moving again?

Like you Verteiron, as a software developer I tend to use scripts, but in this case, I found the AI Packages really be the best way to achive behaviors. Combine scripts and AI Packages and I think my animals do some pretty cool stuff (obviously, I'm biased) that I was not able to figure out how to do with script alone.

Yeah, I discovered the joy of AI packages when I was building my Fire Guardian's breakup stage... the individual actors were running away too quickly for melee characters to kill them, so I have them attack first, then run away to reform into the Guardian after a few seconds. Wouldn't have been possible without conditional packages.

Problems are, I can't find a single package that was designed for animals to lie down, and I have no idea which idle aniation is for a given animal lying down. I'll continue looking into it, posting whatever I find.
P>S I have trtied a number of package permutations, none seem to work.

Also, I can't see how to script something using an animation.

Give them a UseIdleMarker package, set your conditions and time/days and what not, then point to your marker in the package utility. I think that will do it.

Tried it. The only idle marker I could find was AnimalLayDownIdleMarker (something like that anyway) and that only works for sabrecats apparently.

There is one specific to dogs: DogLayingDownIdleMarker. It's only used by Meeko, I think, but you should be able to look at his AI and Quests to see how to get other dogs to use it.

Many actors, including canines, cows, bears, and hares also have a laying-down idle that can be triggered with Debug.SendAnimationEvent(akTarget,"idleLayStart"). Goats have one called "idleGoatLieDownStart". Horses and deer don't seem to have any laydown animation, though you could ragdoll them and set them unconscious if you don't mind them looking dead rather than asleep

Huh, never would have thought to look under debug. Thanks!

Have you tried duplicating EmptyIdleMarker and then adding the idle you want?

I used that to make a belly dancing marker for a certain establishment, and it worked just fine with useIdleMarker packages.

Of course, then we got 1.7 and after that it was a bit unreliable, but I've used the same approach elsewhere without problems.