Giving Dogs Bones

[Allannaa]

Stop that, it's not what you think lol

 

First -- is it possible to make an extra "bone" for the dog skeleton's tongue, or perhaps its mouth, through NifSkope?  The reason I ask is, I'd like to have a "thigh bone" that a given dog appears to be "gnawing" or carrying around with it.  (Note, I know I could probably make an idle animation to do that, but that's completely beyond me, whereas models and textures are not.)

 

Second -- Since I don't want every dog in Skyrim to be constantly carrying around the treat bone 24/7 is there a way to make it carry its bone only when (for instance) the player is fairly near?

 

Third -- Is there a way to do this that will add the treat bone even to dogs created by other mods -- WITHOUT requiring a patch specific to each possible doggy mod?  (Even More Dogs, Dogs of Skyrim, Immersive Creatures, skyTEST RA&P come to mind)

 

Thanks!

[Elgate]

I have no experience in modding, so I may be completely wrong, but wouldn't it be possible to make the bone an equipment? Skyrim and Fallout 4 are similar engine, and in fallout 4, you can give equipment to dogmeat. Maybe it's possible to create an equipment that work?

[Allannaa]

That's a pretty good idea... Armor + an ArmorAA....

 

But.... I'd have to go thru and put it on every dog in Skyrim?  Yuck, too much trouble.  Surely there's a way to, as I said, add the squeaky toy or the bone, to any dog from any mod or DLC, only when the player is near.

 

I thought about making a dog skeleton, with the extra bone for the bone (lol that sounds so silly) and using it as a replacer -- but how would I disable the toy when it's not appropriate?  Say when Barbas, or a DogFollower is in combat.  I mean admittedly it'd be cute if they had their bone while they fought, but uh... yeah, lol no.

 

So how would I show it sometimes, but not always?

[Elgate]

a weapon maybe then? Place it in his mouth when sheathed and inside his body when drawn. It's still there, it's just somewhere it can't be seen. As for giving it to all dogs, bandit can have random equipment, maybe dogs on generation could too with a 100% chance to have that bone?

 

Also, I'm not sure it would work with dogs from other mods. I mean, even if you add a bone, you have to change the body texture of every dog to make it work; Which mean that every custom dog would probably fail.

 

Again, it is with little to no knowledge about modding, but from what I understand from mods that's how I believe it would happen.

 

Edit: I just thought about something: why not look into more nasty critters? One way or another they added all the penises to animals. Maybe It's possible to do in the same fashion? maybe you can find some pointer as to how they added the bone and how they made it show on all creature.

[Allannaa]

wow, both the weapon idea and the looking at MNC are great ideas.  I dunno why that didn't occur to me.  Thank you!

[Elgate]

Because sometime, someone who doesn't know anything has idea people don't expect. And also because these are just ideas and they could have been completely impossible (maybe they are impossible, we just don't know yet).