Category:Creatures

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

Flags

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

Type	Description
Creature	Default setting with no special properties
Daedra	Unknown function
Giant	Special case used for immovable creatures
Horse	Can be ridden
Humanoid	Unknown function
Undead	Responds to Turn Undead spells, never loses Fatigue

Level: The level of the creature, used to determine its stats and leveled loot, as well as its resistance to certain Illusion spells. If PC Level Offset is checked, this becomes the offset (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.

Death Item: When the creature dies, this item (or an item from this leveled list) is added to the creatures inventory.

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

Flag	Function
Quest Item	Creature updates more frequently. Dead body isn't removed when the cell regenerates.
No Head	Prevents head tracking issues for Headless Zombies.
No Low Level Processing	The creature does not update its AI unless the player is in the same cell as it.
Essential	No effect (creature can still be killed and body can be looted).
No Left Arm	Prevents combat animation problems for one armed zombies.
No Combat in Water	Prevents water combat for creatures with swim animations but no water combat animations.
Respawn	References of this creature in the world will be recreated after three days.
No Right Arm	Prevents combat animation problems for one armed zombies.
Can Corpse Check	Allows the creature to approach and 'examine' (Stand in front of) dead bodies.
No Shadow	Does not attempt to display a shadow for the creature.

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.

To be able to block, creatures must have a block animation (i.e., Block.kf, Blockhit.kf). This means certain creatures, like Clannfears, never block under any circumstances, even when their combat style would suggest otherwise.

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.)

There are only two actors categorized as 'humanoid', the first being actor being a Spriggan (who, unless is referenced to by a quest script or summon item/spell, never appears in-game), and the second being a zombie.

The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.