'To Do' thread for Ibsen's Ghost

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Originally posted by SACarrow
Admittedly, not my piece of swampland, but I have a question based on this:

1) CocoNutIngred1 is the ingredient coconut that you harvest from the CocoNutFlora1, after you shoot CocoNutFlora1 out of the palm tree and activate it. DO NOT do region generation with either of them, for they are both clutter havoked and not static - you'll end up with many bouncing coconuts everywhere. Read here for how they are used and the current limitations of the tree harvesting system I was previously working on (the answer is in one of my posts):

Is the bouncing coconut syndrome caused by the generation process, or would having a large number of those plants affect the game anyway? The approach that I am thinking of would be to use a static with the proper dimensions as a placeholder for the generation process. After generation, the base form ID for every generated reference could be replaced using TES4Gecko v15. If the problem lies solely in the region generation and not the game engine, that might work.

Steve

well, in the thread I linked to above, llamaranger tried to do region gen with the CocoNutFlora1....and since CocoNutFlora1 is also with clutter collision - made purposefully with clutter collision so it falls from the palm tree when shot at - the region gen he did had all these rolling coconuts all over the ground because he did not know to use the "harvest basket" nif that was included with my resource pack to place under & around the flora coconuts in the treetops.

You could possibly make a static version of the coconut nif and replace it later after region gen via TESGEcko (never used that program though) with the clutter-collisioned coconut. Just be sure to somehow pair up each coconut with its harvest basket, else they will automatically fall to the ground in the game since nothing to catch them.

Also, if the flora coconut falls into a neighboring cell, the flora coconut can't be activated until brought back to the cell of its origin (game limitation, I think). I tried to remedy this by making that coconut heavier in mass, so it flies less far when shot at. I'm sure other tweaks to those particular settings could be done to keep the flora coconut from straying.

I found out you can enter differently collisioned items as flora, and be able to harvest things from them. So to make tree harvesting more realistic, I made three special items: a flora coconut, the ingredient coconut, and the harvest basket with gaps in it-

1) You place the harvest basket in the treetops while it is still visible mesh (you make it invisible later on, when all are placed). The basket has strategically placed gaps so arrows, fireballs, etc can reach through to the flora coconut and shoot it out of the basket.
2) You place the flora coconut in the basket and turn on havok in the CS til it settles in place. The flora coconut has a small invisible static triangle in the nif next to the coconut, so that the clutter-collisioned part resets back to the treetops back next to the static triangle when "Reset3DState" is called on cell reset via script, and therefore back into the harvest basket that holds it. You attach the ingredient coconut to be harvested from the flora coconut, in the CS.

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