Category:Creatures

Creatures is a type of actor object that cannot engage in dialogue, commit crimes, wear armor or clothing, or be pickpocketed.

• ID: Form ID of the object

• Name: Display name for the object

• Script: Active script for all references of this object. Select the elipses marks (...) to edit or view the script.

• Type:

• Weapon & Shield: Checkbox for whether or not the creature uses a weapon and/or a shield

• Level: The level of the creature, used to determine it's resistance to certain Illusion spells. If PC Level Offset is checked, this becomes the offest (positive or negative) from the player's level.

• PC Level Offset: Checkbox for making the creature leveled. Activates the Calc Min and Calc Max boxes. Changes the Health, Spell points, Fatigue, Combat, Magic, Stealth, and Attack Damage into level based multipliers.

• Calc Min: The minimum level the creature is allowed to be if PC Level Offset is checked. Values of less than one are presumed to be one.

• Calc Max: The maximum level the creature is allowed to be if PC Level Offset is checked. Zero is defined as unlimited.

• Combat Style: Selects a combat style.

• Death Item: When the creature dies, an item from this leveled list is placed in the creatures inventory.

• Nif file: The skeleton mesh used by this creature.

• Movement: Checkboxes for all the varieties of movement the model can perform. There must be a corresponding animation for the movement type.

• Miscellaneous Flags:

Notes

• Disposition and creatures: The disposition formula for NPCs includes things like the player's fame or bounty. Those aspects do not apply to creatures. They use a pure personality and faction calculation to determine dispostion:

(Creatures Personality * .75) + (Other Actor's Personality * .25) + Interaction Relation.

• Certain creatures appear to never block under any circumstances, even when their combat style would suggest otherwise, while others do, regardless of weapons equipped or animations present.

Mudcrabs and goblins are an example of creatures who block when it is allowed in their combat style, while creatures like Clannnfears never block under any circumstances, even in spite of possessing the necessary animations and combat style design.

• Even if a creature is essential, the game will still give the loot menu, as the game was not designed to support essential creatures. (Does not appear to harmfully change gameplay.)
• The only creature in the giant category is Mehrunes Dagon. (This holds true even in Shivering Isles.) The editor ID for it is 'CreatureMehrunesDagon'. There is also an actor in the Daedra category named 'TestMehrunesDagonSkeleton' which appears to be a rough duplicate of Mehrunes Dagon in the Giant category. (With differences, I.E. the Dagon in the Daedra category has only 50 fatigue, spell points, and has 50 personality.)
• Of the categories of creatures, the Horse category is arguably the strictest (The Giant and Humanoid category may also have strict demands), as it by default expects certain qualities from the model, meaning when a model that doesn't have the expected qualities is categorized as a horse, an error may occur. (One such being that typically the Body file doesn't appear.)