I'm currently making the skeletons in Skyrim wear Helmets, Ring, Amulets etc. This works perfectly fine when they're alive, but as soon as the skeletons die and their bones fall apart, the items get stretched between skull and ribcage when these bones fall apart since the helmets are attached to those parts

So I was thinking of a script on every helmet (preferably always the same script, if that's possible) that unequips the helmet when the skeleton dies, leaving it in the inventory for the player to loot it and preventing the glitching of the mesh.

The problem is that I'm really bad at scripting, so I really need your help!

Any ideas how to approach this problem?

Cheers
Phil

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event OnDeath()   Skeleton.UnequipAll()endEvent

EDIT: Oh, you want it on the item. Hmmm. Dunno, I'd do it on the actor though, as that takes care of all of their stuff.

hmm...I guess I could run it on the actor but then it would also unequip his weapon and shield...is there a way just to unequip the helmet?

Force equip, OnDeath(), an innocuous, unplayable ARMO form that uses the same slot?

I guess that could work...I'm testing it out right now

EDIT: no idea how to script -.-

ScriptName YourScript extends ActorArmor Property InnocuousARMO AutoEvent OnDeath(Actor akKiller)	EquipItem(InnocuousARMO, True)EndEvent

The skeleton wears the innocuous armor from the beginning, any way to prevent it from wearing it before his death?

Make sure the other item has a higher armor rating. The skeleton should preferentially wear whatever's more protective or don't give it to them in the editor and let the script do it.

Note: http://www.creationkit.com/EquipItem_-_Actor will give the actor akItem in the event they've not already got one.

*Adds note

Sctipt works now, the skeleton doesn't want to equip the armor...the helmet is still on his head after dying

EDIT: the initial helmet is part of the outfit, can those items even be unequipped?

EDIT: The skeleton now has no helmet at all and when it dies, it should equip a hide helmet (for testing purposes)...but nothing happens, it refuses to wear the helmet.

Event OnDeath(Actor akKiller)EndEvent

Edit: Are you certain the biped slots are shared?

Yes I am, since now the armor to be equipped is a playable helmet. If the helmet was part of the outfit the skeleton would have no problem wearing it...

just to make sure: the script has to be attached to the skeleton right?

Script on skeleton: Yeah

Try tinkering with the armor rating and making the unplayable one more protective, but only add it with the script so they'll not have it until dead? By the same token equipping a dagger will remove a two handed sword, the added ARMO should unequip the previously equipped one, then not be available to take when looting.

You could use http://www.creationkit.com/DropObject_-_ObjectReference

I added a line to the script "UnequipAll"...and even then the helmet stays on the skeleton's head...I kinda have the feeling that the script doesn't make it into the game

EDIT: I change OnDeath to OnDying and now the "UnequipAll" works perfectly fine...still the other helmet doesn't want to be equipped...maybe I'll just use the "UnequipAll"

EDIT: OMG I totally forgot to define the "Innocuous Armor" as a property