Akello Fells
Game Designer
Throwable Egg summons
The goal of this mod was to create a way to summon creatures midbattle. The secondary goal was to some how tie this ability to the animal friend perk.
Mod Demostration
Using grenades the player can summon three different types of creatures. The player can summon a mirelurk a RadScorpion and a deathclaw.
Spawning Method
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The original idea for this mod was to make a gun that spawns an object (likely an egg) with a papyrus script that will spawn a creature. While trying to learn how to spawn an object I remembered that bottle cap mines spawn a pile of caps when used.
After realizing this, I quickly learned more about how projectiles and explosions work in the creation kit. Instead of using papyrus, I used the built-in spawning system for explosions.
Method of delivery
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I decided it would make more sense to make the summoning method a grenade throw. I chose this method because it will make summoning a creature feel more impactful and less frequent.
I used a baseball grenade as a starting point then changed and the explosion.
Changing the creatures
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For the creatures I used a template and changed:
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The Creature Stats
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The Faction
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The Ai Data
I made the creature's stats scale with the player's level. I also got rid of the XP value to avoid encouraging the player to kill their own summons for XP.
I changed the Faction data to be in the player faction. Now that the creature is in the player faction, it will only attack enemies that are hostile to the player and themselves.
I changed the ai data to make some of the creatures less aggressive and to ensure that they will help allies (The Player).
Connection to the perk system
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To tie the summons to the animal friend perk I decided to make them craftable if the player has the perk leveled up. Each creature has a different level of the perk this way the player will have to build their way to the stronger creatures.