children but not child race children

[Yinkle]

As the title suggests I have a query about mods that have children who don't use a child race and LL mods. I've heard of a few that do this but encountered one myself recently. I'm not going to single out the mods that do this as it's not the creators of those mods place to fix this, it's the LL community's responsibility. So my question is simply how do we fix this as modders? I personally don't want loads of people complaining to me that "Child" from "mod" was affected by my mod.

 

One thing that occured to me was that we could just use a new keyword in our mods as well as the standard "ischild" check and contact authors of mods with this issue requesting that they simply add that keyword to these characters. If anyone has a better idea I'd love to hear it!

 

EDIT: the keyword idea is useless as they have form id's too and would require dependencies

[Yinkle]

contact the SKSE authors and they might be able to make something?

 

Edit: from Ian Patterson:

 

It sounds like something like that would be best implemented in papyrus rather than native code (no advantage to having us do it). I also have no idea what we would check to tell what to return for that function.

[Yinkle]

So, having had correspondance with both skse authors and mod authors that use this method I'm no clearer on a solution. Perhaps someone in this community has the skills to come up with something? Here's hoping

[Yinkle]

Feels like I'm talking to myself here but there is a solution! I discussed it with the mod author who's mod brought this to my attention and they came up with this:

 

it's actually quite easy.

 

The author needs to take note of the race the actor already is.

 

make a duplicate of the race

call it what you want ie: "SpecifiedNPCTypeRace"

Change the text.

Assign the morph and armor flags

Check the "IsChild" box.

 

In the actor property change the race

 

Job done.

That might help others.