Lanterns for Guards
Exciting news: I have released an optional plugin for Wearable Lanterns today, called Lanterns for Guards! With it, guards throughout Skyrim will randomly have a torch, or a hand-held lantern from Wearable Lanterns. It's out, grab it in the Downloads tab!
They will have as much chance of carrying a lantern as they do torches, so you'll see them sprinkled throughout the game. (They will only carry lanterns, not wear them; that was outside my capabilities as of right now)
I wanted to do something where guards in only certain cities would carry lanterns, but this proved to be conflict-inducing. This was the best approach I could find while still making things feel organic.
You may need to start a new game, or play for quite a while, to see guards carrying these lanterns if loading a save-game. This is because they are added with a Leveled List, and that list is only evaluated once when the actor is spawned (usually when you first encounter them). Such is the nature of leveled lists.
Full disclosure: I only modify one "vanilla" leveled list: LItemTorch50. This will seed guards throughout the game with lanterns, as well as additional lanterns for purchase at vendors (under the Misc section). I figured that this would have the biggest impact on the game (nearly every guard in the game uses this list to decide whether or not he has a torch or lantern) while minimizing my incompatibility footprint.
The best part is that I'll be releasing this today! It ended up being very easy to do, and will be an optional download that will require Wearable Lanterns 2.1 be installed.
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What would be neat is them putting it on the hip once entering combat - not sure if they already do this, but just throwing that out there. Awesome stuff though Chesko. Love your mods.