Jebbalon stuff

Something I want to share with the community How to hang an NPC

Jay Baron's stuff

Just something I wanted to share with the community.

First up.......

Examples of hanging people

Vanilla Skyrim includes a failed attempt to hang an NPC. I've corrected it.

Chris Klee uploaded the mod skyrim gallows which adds gallows to skyrim's cities. Because the normal script for hanging NPCs wasn't finished/tested/available yet, they made the corpses just static.

With my example mod, I modified the script to be able to hoist a ragdoll's body from a rope so it would work more realistically.

There's also a script for body swaying. This is a proof of concept - on how to manipulate a corpse using rigid body dynamics attached to the body.

Things to keep in mind when using these scripts...

-The rope must not collide within the mesh. There is something in vanilla called HangedManRope(?) which has collisions and doesn't work. The rope I use is dock rope without collision.

-The script HangedManScript_rected.psc is attached to the corpse. The old script was attached to the activator rope. The script then attaches the corpse's neck to the dummy node.

• The script HangedMan_SwayingScript.psc is connected to a RigidBodyDum, which is a movable static object with only one "bone" or node. This script will transform the nodes back and forth to simulate the body swinging on the rope.
• Both scripts have comments to help understand what is going on.