Sad the pets placed in the house doesn't free roam, why not??

akl77 · February 2017

It's literally like a frozen statue.

LordGavus · February 2017

Yeah I hope it can be changed so they act like they do normally. It would definitely liven up the house.

AlMcFly · February 2017

Agreed. I haven't placed any pets because of this very reason. I might place a frog or dwemer spider as decoration in my laboratory area though.

johu31 · February 2017

I'd be happy if they atleast wagged a tail and gave me a nod when I walked by.

Eiagra · February 2017

Would require laying a framework for pathfinding. Possibly do-able, but probably not a priority at the moment.

akl77 · February 2017

Isn't it just a line of code to not overlap other items. Like the witcher 3 or skyrim, rabbits and chickens roam free, when seeing human they may flee, hide, or greet.

SydneyGrey · February 2017

Well, it's not a "frozen" statue. They do their idle animations, so they at least look alive.

I think the reason they don't roam is because they'd have to do roaming animation work for every pet ever made, and that they ever will make. Now, some animals already have a roaming animation (like the cats) because they're in the game and have those animations already. Many of the pets don't already have roaming animations, though. I think it was a matter of them not wanting to allocate an employee to do the work required.

Myyth · February 2017

Well since the fruit and meat displays are made with wax, alchemical resin and flour maybe your pet is also waxed for decoration

Skraticus · February 2017

Because ZOS fails pretty hard at the simplest of things.

NocturnalGuideMe · February 2017

i mean arent your pets and animals already animated to pretty much every terrain in the game? it would simply be the task of unlocking them to follow a ghost around the house.

BigRiver · February 2017

I would also like to see more movement from the mounts. It would be neat having an option to allow free roam or stay put or just even have some movement. My horses look like statues lol

Osteos · February 2017

johu31 wrote: »

I'd be happy if they atleast wagged a tail and gave me a nod when I walked by.

My Markarth dog barks, wags his tail and digs in the flower bed. I agree it would be great if he walked around but he is very active.

Jemcrystal · February 2017

pets and kids would be nice

SydneyGrey · February 2017

NocturnalGuideMe wrote: »

i mean arent your pets and animals already animated to pretty much every terrain in the game? it would simply be the task of unlocking them to follow a ghost around the house.

They'd have to re-do the pathing a bit so that the animal walks along a set, short path, or in a small circle. You would never be able to set an animal anywhere near a wall or furniture again, because it would have to have enough room around it to do the roaming.

It's doable, though. It would be really nice. I'd certainly welcome it with open arms if they decided to implement this in the game. It would be nice if my dog and lynx weren't always in the same spot every single minute of every day.

NewBlacksmurf · February 2017

That's definately something to update....it's also odd that no assistants, mounts or pets can exist in homes other than being placed by the owner

Molydeus · February 2017

I'm not sure what would be necessary to implement roaming pets inside our homes, but usually there is more that goes into the implementation of such things than what we think. It may not be as quick and simple as it looks.

Sneaky-Snurr · February 2017

Correct me if I'm wrong but couldn't ZOS use the existing models of the same 'family' (eg: wild senches and lion/senche mounts) and replace the texture of the former to the mount's and use the existing pathway framework of overworld critters and wildlife?

akl77 · February 2017

My guess is they were designed by different teams, developed separately, cos things don't seem to connect with the existing ESO environment.

Serjustin19 · February 2017

All My mounts. Are all inside my house. I be happy for my mounts to roam freely. Later on in the future. As one of my friend already put it " You have indoor zoo"

Lynx7386 · February 2017

Because they'd get stuck, either in walls or in your furniture.

Slurg · February 2017

The most active thing at my house is the target skeleton and he's dead.

Zardayne · February 2017

I can never understand how old eg2 managed to have pets roaming in my house but a new aged game can't figure it out. That boggles my mind.

Uriel_Nocturne · February 2017

akl77 wrote: »

It's literally like a frozen statue.

Because ZOS gave their players the most bare-bones Housing update possible when compared to what other MMORPG's offer with their Housing.

I suspect that they did this in order to charge everyone a premium Crown Store price for all those "missing" features and features that "didn't make the cut".

Seriously, this Housing update is beyond worthless.

Tommy_The_Gun · February 2017

Ehm.. maybe there's a reason for lack of free roaming pets & NPCs...

Inhuman003 · February 2017

The sad thing is your pets and your merchants cant walk around freely. It would be nice to add some mechanic that can be added to the animation. I hate seeing my Merchant and pets just stand in one spot that's sad.

MarkusLiberty · February 2017

This is most likely a navmesh issue as much as anything else.

Pets, as well as any other NPC, require a pre-built path structure that aids them in pathfinding through complicated spaces. These structures are usually created by hand for every environment in game, and since the cluttering of player homes are handled by the players, there won't be any available Navmesh for NPCs to read.

This could be fixed by creating a tool for autogenereting Navmesh, but even this would likely require hand adjustents in order to work properly. Unless furnishing is restricted to a wireframe, like in Sims and other sandbox games, I simply dont see how this is going to be possible.

Inhuman003 · February 2017

MarkusLiberty wrote: »

This is most likely a navmesh issue as much as anything else.

Pets, as well as any other NPC, require a pre-built path structure that aids the them in pathfinding through complicated spaces. These structures are usually created by hand for every environment in game, and since the cluttering of player homes are handled by the players, there won't be any available Navmesh for NPCs to read.

This could be fixed by creating a tool for autogenereting Navmesh, but even this would likely require hand adjustents in order to work propperly. Unless furnishing is restricted to a wireframe, like in Sims and other sandbox games, I simply dont see how this is going to be possible.

Interesting thought but explain why it can't be possible in some way about wireframe.

Kodrac · February 2017

Skraticus wrote: »

Because ZOS fails pretty hard at the simplest of things.

And you would know that pathing and collision is simple. Right?

akl77 · February 2017

MarkusLiberty wrote: »

This is most likely a navmesh issue as much as anything else.

Pets, as well as any other NPC, require a pre-built path structure that aids them in pathfinding through complicated spaces. These structures are usually created by hand for every environment in game, and since the cluttering of player homes are handled by the players, there won't be any available Navmesh for NPCs to read.

This could be fixed by creating a tool for autogenereting Navmesh, but even this would likely require hand adjustents in order to work properly. Unless furnishing is restricted to a wireframe, like in Sims and other sandbox games, I simply dont see how this is going to be possible.

Fallout 4 and mine craft are user built houses too, the animals and NPCs free roam.
I really thought in this game when advertised initially that pets do roam free and jump on furnitures, surprised it wasn't.

cpuScientist · February 2017

Because science