Hi everyone. I made a summonable npc, and followed the Follower video tutorial. But when I summon them, I can't speak to them. I have the spells and mgef done.

I also noticed that when I created a summon horse spell, I couldn't ride the horse. I think having the 'summonable' attribute checked prevents you from doing anything with/to the summoned actor. Too bad, I could see all sorts of uses for it.

That svcks big time then. Ah well. Thanks for the reply.

Talyn82, did you have to build a script to make something summonable?

*Bump* Anyone? I'd like to make a summon bear spell. Anyone help with this?

How did you "summon" the actor? I made a summon effect that just did actor.moveto(player), and that seemed to work fine.

Edit: I should clarify that the "summon effect" wasn't actually related to summoning as such - the archetype was set to script effect.

I just created the actor, then the spell and magic effect. Then I setup the factions and relationship for the npc. I can summon the npc fine, my question is how can I give them orders? I used the follower tutorial video as a guide.

Here's my npc:

http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/5563/tesv2012022201563741.jpg


No. I did not have to build a script. I just created the actor, then the spell and magic effect.

You could try using a script to summon the actor as sirtaj is saying, instead of the built in summon creature effect. Just add a script to your magic effect that uses the actor.moveto() or the player.placeatme() function and your actor from the magic effects assoc. item 1.

What is the code for the script I need to setup? I'm not a expert scripter, I am still a novice.

Thnx in advance.

Possibly something like this

Scriptname  extends ActiveMagicEffectACTORBASE PROPERTY summonActor AUTO;Property for the actor you wish to summonACTOR actorRefEVENT OnEffectStart(Actor akTarget, Actor akCaster)	actorRef = akCaster.PlaceAtMe(summonActor)ENDEVENTEVENT OnEffectFinish(Actor akTarget, Actor akCaster)	actorRef.delete()ENDEVENT

And then once you placed the script in the magic effect you would need to set the scripts properties and set summonActor to the actor you want to summon

Sorry for the overdue reply, I forgot about this thread. Forgive me for asking some redundant questions. I'm trying to understand scripting, but sometimes some things just fly over my head. lol

What do you mean by:


Do I enter the actors ID?

Also do I enter it where it says:

Ok, thank you much; I got it now.

If you need more help. Send me a pm.