Is there any floating script that could be applied to a boat to make it move floating ? like when the ships are harbored ?

There's a mod that adds a floating ship on the Nexus, you can probably see how its done over there

I was totally tricked by that mod. I thought it was an actual flying airship, and wanted to take a look at how it manages to move everything smoothly together. But it's just a player home that happens to be a couple hundred feet in the air.

I've looked into this as well and haven't come up with a way to do it. The Dragon Priests and Wisp Mothers are floating mobs, but there isn't a script attached to them that makes them float like that. Perhaps it's just how their mesh is set up..

the floating airship I guess you mean the Asteria? that's just a static stuck into Air nothing floating ... I meant something that coudl physcally move up or down ... or basculating a bit ... to give the feeling of moving water u know ...

If I had access to some local rotation functions, I could write one fairly easily. But since we only have access to successive Z>Y>X rotations, making a ship rock realistically like it's on waves is ridiculously difficult.

http://www.creationkit.com/TranslateTo_-_ObjectReference

If you want it to look like "idle" movement, you could use this function with random variables for one second, then generate new random ones and repeat. You could set up a system to check the boat's position and limit the random numbers so that it doesn't move "out" of the water.

TranslateTo has rotation as well.

I'm also assuming the movement speed is in units/second, since the wiki page says a speed of 1 is almost imperceptible. that could be determined with some testing, and then you could know exactly how long to wait until starting the next idle movement.

Edit: If you want it to be a easier to code, you can move it on fixed paths (like just up and down) without using random numbers.

Oh, I remember you talking about yaw, pitch, and roll a couple weeks ago. At the time I didn't understand what you meant, and I thought that SetAngle() sets an object's local rotation. Well I wrote a function for http://www.creationkit.com/Setting_Local_Rotation and put it on the wiki. You can work backwards from it to calculate world rotation from local if needed.

That's quite useful.

Well if you have that working, then making an object move like it's floating is pretty simple. Just create three invisible objects to act as references to the positions you want the boat to wind up in at the extremes of each "wave", and use TranslateToRef to each one in succession, capping the rotation speed based on the size of the boat (Large ships don't rock very fast, while small boats can rock quite quickly). Set the rotations of the two "left" and "right objects based on the ship's current heading, and catch the "OnTranslationComplete" events to switch to the next one in the cycle, which should go Left, Center, Right, Center, Left (repeat)

To simulate waves hitting the boat at an angle, you would pitch the invisible refrences a bit as well as rolling them.

There are some ships/boats in the meshes bsa that come with a rocking animation:

ShipLarge01Anim01.nif
ShipLongBoatAnim01.nif
ShipRowBoatAnim01.nif

Maybe you could get someone to extract the animations for you and apply it to your ships?

do they move / float?

No, but they rock in place.

ahh yeh that's right what I was looking for ...

Well the "Invisible Rocking Reference Objects" will do the trick too...you just need to add a script to the Boat like this:

ObjectReference property RockLeft Auto ; Select the "Left" orientation referenceObjectReference property RockCenter Auto ; Select the "Center" orientation referenceObjectReference property RockRight Auto ; Select the "Right" rock orientation referencebool Property Left=False Auto ; Are we rocking to the left?bool Property Center = True ; Are we at our center position?bool Property Rocking=False AutoSound property RockSound Auto ; What sound to play when starting to rock?float Property RotateCap=1.0 Auto ; Set based on ship size.Function TranslateChoice() ; Picks a node and starts rotation, setting the booleans appropriately.    if Left ; Going left        if Center ; We're at the center point.            Center = False            Left = False            TranslateToRef(RockLeft,1.0,RotateCap)        else            Center = True            TranslateToRef(RockCenter,1.0,RotateCap)        endif    else ; Going Right        if Center ; We're at the center point.            Center = False            Left = True            TranslateToRef(RockRight,1.0,RotateCap)        else            Center = True            TranslateToRef(RockCenter,1.0,RotateCap)        endif    endifEndFunctionevent OnActivate() ; Have something activate the boat to start it rocking. It will go Right first.    if GetDistance(RockLeft) != 0.0        RockLeft.MoveTo(Self,0.0,0.0,0.0,False) ; Move it to us, but don't rotate it.    endif    if GetDistance(RockCenter) != 0.0        RockCenter.MoveTo(Self,0.0,0.0,0.0,True) ; Move it to us, and rotate it. Center reference saves our "Start" position.    endif    if GetDistance(RockRight) != 0.0        RockRight.MoveTo(Self,0.0,0.0,0.0,False) ; Move it to us, but don't rotate it.    endif    if !Rocking ; Start Rocking        Rocking = True        TranslateChoice()    else ; Stop Rocking        Rocking = False    endifEndEventEvent OnTranslationComplete()    if Rocking        RockSound.Play(Self) ; Wood creaking sound or water splashing or whatever sound to use for rocking.        TranslateChoice()    endifEndEvent

Btw I opened those animated ships and they look fine with the movement but they seem to be unfinished meshes , like objects there without a texture or the like ... or may be the niftool dont open them well? Are they used ingame? is there any referenced use of the animated boats / ships?

I don't know if they're used in the game, you'll have to check for yourself. But I have placed them inside myself, and they work fine. Just filter for 'Ship' under statics and moveable statics, and choose the ones with 'Anim' in the name.

inside where? I see they have attached some weird stuff ...

I have placed them inside the game myself, and they have worked fine.

but you edited them?

I actually had to make a heavy edition to implement my kind of ship ...

I have used those ship models (I'm also workin on a sailing mod), and they didn't show any visula oddity. I already edited them to remove the animation ( I preffer to implement it myself). So, there is no problem with those models.

Well I see a side ship thing , thats the problem and the side ship thing is incomplete ... at least for the larger one I mean ...

It looks fine in game though.

Oh I realize why , becasue the flag is set to 15 so it looks not visible , but the model shape ispresent , weird touch ....

Here is instead my ship customized with severall add ons , and nicely rolling on the sea , I want touse this for simulating a travel ....

http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/6276/shipl.jpg