Bite - Wildlife Combat Enhancement

This mod was inspired by Skywild and its philosophy. Animals and monsters should fight differently to the humanoid races of Tamriel. Specifically, their strength, mass and ferocity should give them an edge in melee combat.

Most of the effects included in Bite are also usable by the player via the perk system. Animals cannot cause bleeding or critical hits in the same manner as the player or NPCs, as they cannot use the associated perks. Bleeding and critical hit perks require the player/actor to wield a weapon, which necessitates the use of attack spells to replicate these effects.

This is the same strategy used by EtaYorius in the brilliant mod SkyTEST. The only problem with SkyTEST's approach is that the spells that apply throwing force don't cause bleed, or infect disease and vice versa. My solution is to create attack effects for each individual attack animation to achieve all these effects at once, which also necessitated creating a new system for diseases to work.

I've since included an optional addon esp that gives the Dragonborn a heightened resistance to the knockdown effects of the creatures.

The venom of a frost bite spider, the icy bite of a deathhound and all diseases are in fact all spells. What separate these spells from the ones that NPCs and the player uses is that these are grafted upon the attacks of their respective creature. They behave like on hit enchantments, although attack spells use a different system attached to the actor's attack data.

As stated earlier, what this mod does is hijack this system to deliver to simulate these effects. Most creatures benefit from these new spells including dwemer automatons, spriggan, hagraven and wispmothers.  I will go over the unique effects here...

Creatures vary in damage per second and the actual duration. Animals that rely on bleeding in real life will be more adept at in game, such as wolves and sabre cats. Bleed damage caused by mammoth and cow goring are quite potent by themselves, but allowing a pack of wolves to bite you all at once will have your health plummeting.

An impetus for making this mod was to make the knockdowns from Skywild slightly more forgiving, but more powerful. Most knockdowns require the target to be below a certain health threshold. Of Skyrim's carnivores, only the bear and the snow bear's standing power attacks are capable of knocking a fully healthy target down instantly. Knockdowns come in 4 levels of strength: topple, fling, drive and launch.

[*]Topple: Knocks the target to the ground. Most creatures are capable of toppling severely wounded opponents if they use their weight. The health threshold varies with the creature performing the attack. A skeever will only knock dow