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Fixes Mannequin AI to prevent wandering.

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Just sharing a small tweak that finally fixed my mannequin problems.

To explain. Skyrim's mannequins are basically NPCs (with their own AI Package), which are frozen in place by a script which fires off each time you load the cells they're in. If the script fails to fire off immediately the moment the cell loads, they'll have 1-2 seconds to wander off (like NPCs tend to do) before being frozen in place. This causes the vanilla wandering mannequin bug.

What USLEEP does is tweak the script ("mannequinactivatorscript.pex") that freezes the mannequins to be faster and more streamlined (I think? Did not really look at the source code.) and more importantly, to make it reset the mannequins' pose and position after it's done freezing them so that they'll be where they should be and in the pose they should be in.

If you're running a vanilla game, this will be all that you'll need. However, if your game is heavily modded (with script heavy mods) and you're suffering from an even slight Payrus Script lag or alternately, you use player home mods like "Deus Mons" or "Halls of Dovahndor", with 15+ mannequins in one cell, USLEEP's script just won't be able to keep up and you're likely to end up with floating/wandering mannequins anyway.

What my mod does is tweak the mannequin's NPC AI package to keep them from wandering around in the first place. In the vanilla game, the mannequin's AI Package "MannequinStay" is set to the "travel" template, which is why without the script "mannequinactivatorscript.pex", the mannequins tend to... travel. As of the latest version, USLEEP does not touch this. What my tweak does is change the AI Package so that it now has a template that tells the mannequins to "hold position". Now they'll no longer wander around in their cells while waiting for "mannequinactivatorscript.pex" to turn them into statues and reset their postion, they'll simply stand in place, maybe turn their head this way and that way, but no more. This vastly reduces the possibility for error.

TLDR If all this just flies right over your head, just download and install. If it doesn't solve your mannequin problems, then it's perfectly safe to uninstall without negatively affecting your game in anyway. Peace.