About this mod
This mod allows you to transform into a dragon, with full control and collision. Fly fast or walk slow. Attack with melee or with shouts. This is the most intuitive way to play as a dragon.
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When you use the final word of the Dragon Aspect shout, you are granted the True Dragon Aspect lesser power. This power transforms you into a fully controllable dragon with full collision.
So, how powerful is my new dragon form?
I'd say it's pretty powerful:
- You have a 25% resistance to Fire, Frost, and Shock.
- You are immune to Paralysis.
- Your base health is multiplied by 5.
- You have access to every shout you've unlocked so far, except Dragon Aspect.
- Your shouts recover 60% faster.
- You can use two different melee attacks that dragons can usually perform: the bite and the tail slam.
- You fall slowly and are immune to fall damage.
- You can fly, and shout while flying.
- This form cannot be used indoors.
- You do not have access to melee attacks while flying.
- You cannot equip weapons or spells.
- You cannot equip armor, though you could cast a Mage Armor spell before transforming if you so wish. I'm sure that any sort of Auto-Caster, such as Ocato's Recital from Apocalypse, would also work.
- For now, Whirlwind Sprint is non-functional in dragon form. This is planned to be fixed, but this shout is unique among the others and doesn't exactly work the same way as the others.
Here's the real question: how do I control my dragon form?
This is the most intuitive way to play as a dragon. Here's the controls:
- Movement and rotation are your standard movement controls.
- Your Right Attack control performs a bite. This is LMB by default.
- Your Left Attack control performs a tail slam. This is RMB by default.
- Your Shout control causes you to cast your equipped shout. Whodathunkit? Pro tip: if you are having a hard time seeing what you're trying to hit, zoom your camera in as close as you can; your dragon becomes partially transparent.
- To fly: Jump. Yes, that's it. You can jump midair, and you fall quite slowly.
- While flying, your Toggle Run control switches you between Hovering mode and Cruise mode. This is Caps Lock by default.
You move extremely fast in the air and use a gliding animation while falling.
Strafing is disabled.
Use this to traverse long distances or make flyby attacks.
Hovering Mode:
You move at ground speed in the air and use a hovering animation.
Strafing is enabled.
Use this to make precision attacks or landings.
- To revert your form, a lesser power called Revert Form is provided.
Requirements & Installation:
This mod is made for the SSE 1.6+ (AKA the Anniversary Update - This doesn't require the Anniversary Edition, however)
If you are using an earlier version of the game and have problems with my mod, please try installing Backported Extended ESL Support.
Please use a mod manager to install all of this.
- Install SKSE64
- Install Address Library for SKSE Plugins
- Install Better Jumping SE
- Install Mid Air Shouts
- Install Pandora Behaviour Engine Plus OR Fores New Idles in Skyrim SE and the FNIS Creature Pack found in its optional files.
- Install monster race crash fix
- Install my mod.
- Run Pandora or Generate FNIS for Users. See the corresponding mod page for instructions.
- Profit
Compatibility:
- This mod uses the exact same method of flight as Vampire Lords Can Fly (With Collision), but it actually is 100% compatible with no issues.
- Most likely compatible with mods that add new shouts, but some modded shouts may not work or may have unexpected effects while in dragon form. It all depends on what the shout does, exactly.
- Most likely compatible with mods that change dragon skins or add new ones, such as Diverse Dragons Collection SE.
- Possibly incompatible with some mods that change Dragon Aspect. Let me know if you have any issues with specific mods.
- Certainly incompatible with mods that change dragon animations even a little bit, including KS Dragon Overhaul 2.
- Extremely minor incompatibility with SmoothCam that causes the dragon's head to be tilted slightly to the right. Weird bug, but it doesn't affect gameplay.
- Technically compatible with True Directional Movement, but you'll likely see some quirks of flight that aren't present without it, such as turning very slowly in the air (though that particular issue can be changed with the MCM). If you are using this mod, I recommend configuring Mid-Air Rotation Speed to your liking, and setting Directional Movement (Sheathed) to Vanilla Style.
Other Mods That Make My Mod Cooler:
- Thunderchild, Forceful Tongue, and Stormcrown are very cool shout overhauls. Use only one of them, they are not compatible with each other.
- Dragonborn Ascendant SSE rebalances some vanilla shouts, should be compatible with any of the three above overhauls. Load after your chosen overhaul.
- Rotmulaag SE allows you to meditate with Paarthurnax on 27 total Words. Fully compatible with Thunderchild (with the patch), but not Forceful Tongue or Stormcrown.
- Concentrative Fire and Frost Breaths or Yet Another Concentrative Shouts Mod will give you breath attacks like a real dragon. Use only one of them. Load after your chosen overhaul.
- Open Cities Skyrim lets you fly into cities. Be advised, it also needs patches for lots of other mods you might have installed, such as city overhauls.
- Remember to put my mod below all of these mods in your load order.
Intentional Game Design™ That Might Surprise You:
AKA Known Issues & FAQ
- How do I pick what type of dragon I am?
- What if I want to turn into a dragon without having to unlock Dragon Aspect?
- I am over-encumbered when I am on the ground!
- When I leave the dragon form, I am naked!
- Strafing on the ground uses the wrong animation!
- I already had Better Jumping SE installed, but now it doesn't work when I'm not a dragon!
- I can access my whole inventory and spellbook, but I can't equip anything?
- Sometimes I start flying or moving really fast when I'm walking downhill!
- Sometimes I continue walking in the air for a few seconds!
- Sometimes I randomly T-Pose or have the wrong animation for a second or two!
- My shouts have no sound!
- Sometimes I shout in the air, and then a second shout happens when I land!
- My shouts don't land exactly where I'm looking!
- What if I use a camera mod to go into First Person?
- I can't use Whirlwind Sprint while I'm a dragon!
- Wow! That's a lot of bugs!
- I found a bug that isn't listed here!
Future Ideas & Planned Bug Fixes:
- Add a transformation animation.
- Description of Dragon Body active effect is slightly wrong and will be fixed.
- No more naked Revert Form.
- Add Left and Right Wing attacks. I had this implemented in a beta version, but the attacks seemed to not hit enemies for some reason. I've left this disabled for now.
- Configurable dragon skins.
- Get Whirlwind Sprint working.
- ROAR!
- Followers can ride you!
- Skyrim Together compatibility?
Being hit with a Dragonrend shout grounds you.
- Add a skill tree of some type, perhaps.
- Dragon armor?! Dragon Saddle?!?! Probably not, I suck at 3d modelling.