Talk:LeveledCharacter

A more informal way to describe this concept would be:

• A LeveledCharacter is a shapeshifter, not a spawn point. When placed into the world, it will change its base form on the fly, shapeshifting into one of the actor-bases in its list. Every time it respawns, it does so by resurrecting and shapeshifting.

That simple explanation overlooks one detail, however: it actually becomes a copy of one of the actor-bases in its list. The game creates a new actor-base (in the 0xFFxxxxxx form ID range) and assigns that to the shapeshifter. The reason this is done is because several actor changes (e.g. to factions) affect the base actor: creating a new actor-base for the shapeshifter ensures that changes applied to the shapeshifter aren't inconsistently permanent (or permanent at all). DavidJCobb (talk) 2018-11-12T17:03:46 (EST)

I think this answers a question I had regarding leveled actors. Despite attempts with PlaceAtMe and PlaceActorAtMe, it seems impossible to create an actual copy of a leveled actor. By that I mean, a direct copy. --Rasikko (talk) 2018-12-31T00:47:14 (EST)