I'd like to get a similar effect like when you drained an actor's fatigue below 0 or rendered unconscious an essential actor in oblivion but I've been unable to replicate it in skyrim! "Pushactoraway" puts the actor in ragdoll but only for a second and then she or he gets up again ._. and I tried paralysis too but it doesn't look very realistic (actually it looks creepy!)

You could try calling http://www.creationkit.com/PushActorAway_-_ObjectReference with 0 force often enough that they can't get up until you decide to stop calling it.

Cipscis

Oh thank you! That was a really fast answer!

Anyways I just tried what you said aaaaaand...

This little epileptic breakdance in the air was really funny!

But it's still not what I'm looking for! ^^

BUT but but if anyone is interested to see how that worked this is the script I used (magic effect):

Scriptname mslVTFeedFaintSCR extends activemagiceffectactor Targetactor CasterEvent OnEffectStart(Actor akTarget, Actor akCaster)Target = akTargetCaster = akCasterRegisterForSingleUpdate(0.1)EndeventEvent OnUpdate()Caster.PushActorAway(Target, 0.0)RegisterForSingleUpdate(0.1)Endevent

For anyone who'd like to make... an electrocution torture spell? ^_~

It doesn't just take 0.1 seconds for an Actor to recover from PushActorAway, perhaps try increasing the length to 2 or 3 seconds and see if that works better for you?

While perusing the http://www.creationkit.com/Category:Papyrus on the wiki, I noticed a function called http://www.creationkit.com/ForceAddRagdollToWorld_-_ObjectReference exists in the http://www.creationkit.com/ObjectReference_Script. The description on the wiki isn't particularly useful and I can't access Skyrim's Papyrus source at the moment to see where/if it's used in the vanilla game, but it might be something you'd find useful for this.

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But I don't want the targets to recover! They're supposed to stay down and lie still and play dead.


Hum... the description sounds just like what I'm looking for but I just tested it and it didn't do anything, I even tried it with pushactoraway to ragdoll the target but he just got up normally ._.

Actors don't get up after just 0.1 seconds, so you shouldn't need to push them again so often. If I remember correctly, they generally take 2-3 seconds to get up, but you could experiment a little bit until you find the shortest interval necessary, but it's a good rule of thumb to only run code as often as necessary and not as often as possible.

I'd recommend searching through your Source folder for uses of that function. If it's used in there, it might help you figure out whether or not it can help you and how you might be able to use it.

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Aaaah okay I'll try that!


Awh... I'd love to but do you maybe know a method to do that that doesn't involve opening and searching each of the 11551 scripts in my source folder? ^^




On another note do you know anything about the animation graph functions? I don't understand what they do (what variables is the wiki talking about?) but they sound like something which maybe related

Sorry, I don't really know anything at all about animation.

I think Windows Explorer might be able to search their contents for you, but I generally use the grep function from http://www.cygwin.com/. If you want a similar tool with a GUI you could try http://www.wingrep.com/download.htm.

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You can use target.setunconscious(1) and (0) to make them pass out. He will simply fall to the ground and stay down untill you turn it off again with ...(0).

Hope it helped