I want a constant (could be several different things depending on what's easiest) to change the ID of an in-game creature/actor that the player has already come into contact with.

In other words, player meets ActorEncX . After 24 hrs (or after buying an item, etc) ActorEncX becomes ActorEncY.


A very simple example would be that after 24 hours of dog ownership, the dog actor ID is replaced by a different dog actor ID identical in every way except retextured to have a collar.


Is this even possible? If so, can someone get me started on this? I'm a total script noob.

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I do not think this is possible. I wish to do something similar in my mod I'm making, but I could not figure out a way to make it happen. You can "emulate" the experience, but it won't be as perfect as you want. (Or at least in my case it isn't.)

However, from the brief example you gave, I have a feeling you do not need to do this at all. If you give more details some alternatives could possibly be provided.

Okay, here are the specifics.


I'm almost done with a Wild Horses of Skyrim mod.

I've retextured 8 different horse versions and they are scattered around Skyrim and act like wild animals until caught. Once caught they change in behavior to player-owned horses.

All of that ^ is already done.


However, there are seperate character IDs for horses without saddles and horses with. My wild horses, as you would expect, have no saddles. What I would like is to have something (either the purchase of a saddle at an existing stable or a certain period of time passing) cause the horse to gain a saddle.

It's not stictly neccessary, and the mod works as-is, but I think it would be much neater.

Any ideas???

There may be separate IDs in the CK for saddled/unsaddled horses, but in the meshes, there is a separate mesh for horse saddles. So you should be able to equip the saddle to your horse, rather than change the entire horse in-game.
meshes\actors\horse\character assets\saddle.nif

For example, if you look at the Shadowmere mesh, you'll see it has no saddle.
meshes\actors\horse\character assets\shadowmere.nif

Maybe put the NPC you buy the saddle from inside an interior. That way you can just spawn a new horse at the location of the old one, then disable the old one.

That won't really work, the horses are wild and located in wilderness areas. Additionally, you have to chase them to get em.




I knew about the different (additional rather) meshes for the saddles, but I'm not sure how to achieve what you're describing.

Obviously, I guess the first step would be to make a unique item with only that saddle mesh.

But how to equip it?

Ok so how exactly do the saddles work? If I'm understanding this correctly, you wish to find a wild horse, tame it, and then equip a saddle to the horse--but make sure that the saddled horse looks the exact same as the wild one with a saddle added.

If I'm gathering that correctly, then this is what you would do.

Have two "Actors" for each horse. One for the unsaddled version and one for the saddled. You'd adjust the models appropriately and then name them something like:
GreenHorse
GreenHorseWithSaddle
RedHorse
RedHorseWithSaddle

Then, once the player attempts to attach the saddle to the horse, you perform an if statement to check the "actors" base object ID.
Something along the lines of:

If SaddleTarget == GreenHorse	ObjectReference NewHorse = SaddleTarget.PlaceAtMe(GreenHorseWithSaddle, 1)	NewHorse.RunCodeToMakeItOwnedByThePlayerElseIf SaddleTarget == RedHorse	ObjectReference NewHorse = SaddleTarget.PlaceAtMe(GreenHorseWithSaddle, 1)	NewHorse.RunCodeToMakeItOwnedByThePlayerElse	Error MessageEndIfSaddleTarget.Disable()

This would create a new horse of the appropriate type at the feet of the saddle target, and then disable the saddle target. You can probably make it look smoother with setpos commands but I haven't really messed with those yet so I can't confidently say that that would work.

Instead of replacing the Horse, why not simply add the saddle (its an Armor item) to the horse's inventory, and force the horse to equip it?

http://www.creationkit.com/ObjectReference.AddItem_%28Papyrus%29
http://www.creationkit.com/EquipItem_-_Actor

Edit:

myhorse.additem HorseSaddle 1
myhorse.equipitem horseSaddle

There are 3 different saddles under Items > Armor

ninja'd by Poha!

Much simpler than what I was sayin if you actually have it set up as an item. <.<

Thanks for the help guys, but I'm still missing the biggest piece of the puzzle.

I know there are individual inventory item saddle armors, and "Outfits" that automatically include them.

I have no trouble adding a saddle to my horses in the CK.

But problems begin there. I cannot add the item in-game with the consol command you gave. Of course, these aren't player"owned" horses. So, I also clicked the horse in the console and used the specific code with consol commands and they don't work.

But even if they had, that still falls short of what I actually want to do.

What a need is a way (script?) that adds the saddle to inventory and equips it automatically after buying a saddle from a merchant or something like that.

What I'm thinking is that the following would work, but I don't know how to do all of it:

1) Give armor HorseSaddle a world model, inventory icon, and mark playable
2) Create merchant NPCs to sell item
3) Add script to make inventory of all horses accessible. (no clue how to do this)
4) Add a script to HorseSaddle armor that makes it auto-equip. (no clue how to do this.)


Maybe I'm missing something, because the last few posts read like you guys think the problem is solved.......so maybe I'm overlooking something very simple.

As it stands now, I can add the HorseSaddle armor to the horse only in the CK but can't place it by itself anywhere (other than on the horse due to no existing world model) or give it to the animal in game by consol command.

Thanks.

If you are doing it through the console, you need to use the FormID, not the editor ID.
So for the regular horse saddle, you'd use 60797 instead of HorseSaddle.