I'm completely new to modding. I've taken the liberty to go read up on the creation-kit wiki (Almost finished with them, but will re-read all of them again and again until I know them by heart).

So I've come up with a bit of a problem. I'm trying to get an actor to play a flute. So far I'm using an IdleMarker where the Actor will patrol to and start doing the flute animation. So far so good, until I try it in-game and realized that there isn't any "Flute Sounds".

I thought about it for awhile, and I tried setting up a trigger so that whenever the Actor uses the Idlemarker, it'll play the BardFlute01b (or something like that). However, when I test it, I hear the music (right after I load the cell) but not when he's playing his flute or in the IdleMarker.

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Any help is much appreciated. I've always wanted to bring something to my games (and maybe yours in the future), and I think I'll take the first step with Skyrim's semi-user friendly creation kit.

You could have a closer look at how the bards work, but I'd try either a dialogue or http://www.creationkit.com/PlaySound3D

Just like Bethesda did too, using a dialogue is the best way to do this. I do understand you want the Actor to automatically play something without having to talk to him, I don't think this is possible in the current state unless you just did something wrong. You must remember that the Creation Kit is Beta-Alike.

I was hoping I can get something similar to a bard (but only keeping the Flute or instrumental sounds, since there is no singing voices done by Khajiits). I've been looking at the Bards at different taverns, looked at their AI packages and stuff. But I still don't understand how they can wander around the inn, then stop, play a bit on a drum, then go back wandering around the inn. That's what I want my actor to do. Just without any singing.

Nitt, if you're interested in Khajiit singing please take a look at our thread http://www.darkcreations.org/forums/topic/849-taverns-of-elsweyr/ in the Elsweyr project at Dark Creations. It's concept work only so far but may interest you. We intend to implement Khajiit bards both in our mod and possibly wandering the rest of the world.

I haven't looked at the CK for Bards, but do you think the playing may effectively be handled like rumours for other npcs?