Immersive NPC in the dark

Immersive NPC in the dark version 0. 8. 2 BETA

I love lighting mods that make Skyrim darker (RLO and ELFX), but i hate seeing NPC behave like they all have some sort of nightvision, they can hit me even in the dark while i struggle to spot and hit them.

This mod will make those NPC have difficulties seeing and fighting in the dark and they will carry/use their own light sources to overcome these difficulties.

Not all NPCs will have these behaviors, undeads and those that has nightvisions are more than happy to fight you in pitch black dungeon, you will still need to use night vision or just wield your torch to fight them

Here is a video that shows some of features in version 0. 6 (it's the older version of this mod, some features has been re-tweaked) (thanks to brodual for making this awesome video)

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Features

The main purpose of this mod is to make almost every humans, orcs, and elves in the game behaves differently in the dark by making them use various light sources and/or limiting their combat capabilities. Not all of them will have these behavior and limitation, you can read here for the full list of NPC that are excluded by this mod.

Out of combat behavior

NPC will use torch or lantern to see in the dark, most of them will prefer torch over lantern.

NPCs will use light only when they think it's necessary, e.g: they will not use it If someone around them has already used one.

There are a lot of other things that are taken into consideration in deciding whether to use/not use a light source, all are done in order to make them more believable and minimize light usage in a very crowded places.

Searching Behavior

When NPC is alerted, they will search for their undetected enemy, usually by going to a certain area that draws their attention.

While they are searching, each NPCs in different directions will usually turn their lights on so that they can see better and able to detect their enemy. Thus, each search party will usually have one person at the front using a light source.

Once an enemy has been detected, there is only one thing that matters to them, it is whether they can see their target or not.

Combat behavior

NPCs prefer to not using any lights in battle, they simply don't want to be seen, so if they can see their target they will have no reason to keep their light on and charge at their enemy from the dark.