Hey guys,

1. How much control do we have over dragons? I'm making a cutscene today, and ideally I need a dragon to, on cue, pick a guy up in his claws, then carry him away along a certain path. Is this possibly? If so, how?

2. You know those ghost/spirit people that are blue and transparent? Can I apply that effect to the dragon? How so? I've done very little with effects in previous games, and nothing in Skyrim yet.

Thanks for any help,
Alexander J. Velicky

The ghost/transparent effect i believe is applied by a script. Using 'defaultghostscript' (I think that's the name just going off the top of my head) should give you that effect. That's what I used to make my dragon priest a tranparent litch

Awesome, I'll try that.

Anyone know about forcing the dragon to pick someone up and carry them somewhere?

I have noticed in passing that quests and scenes and such from last year's pre-launch Skyrim E3 demo--wherein a dragon swoops down and picks up a giant--seem to still be in the game. I'd suggest poking around through the quests and packages marked "E3demo" and see if any of those scenes and packages can help. For instance, there's a package named E3demoFlightGrabGiantPKG which uses a procedure called FlightGrab--sounds promising, no?

In the opening Helgen scene, the dragon picks up and tosses a guy, if that helps?