Help me, please? Wanting to create a quest/area aware, follower mod. Where to begin?!

[Kitteas]

Hi everyone! Fingers crossed no one minds I'm posting this question here!

I'm still new, and getting the hang of how things work around here!

I used to work on a rather ambitious Morrowind companion mod, with said companion having a comment for nearly every single cell and quest occurring in the game. I ended it with a ton of nearly finished dialogue, but scrapped it because scripting isn't my strong point.

With Skyrim, I've become recently very enthusiastic about voicing my own follower NPC, but I'd like for her to be quest/area aware, as well as able to prompt her own (simple) personal quests. Like with my Morrowind mod, I'd like for her to have a lot of depth when it comes to her content and dialogue.

Again, scripting is not my strong suit... Unfortunately.

Would someone please be able to point me in the right direction?

Is there some sort of template available that I could use/reference?

And/or a 'Making a Follower Mod For Dummies 101' tutorial? Haha.

Thanks in advance, guys. : )

[DDProductions83]

Well I do have one kind of up that alley

 

 

As for the commentary one of the cool things is the conditions tab, you really don't need a lot of scripting in order for the follower to recognize what cell you are in etc

 

I will one up ya though, mostly because OMFG HARLEY QUINN COSTUME AWESOMENESS, but ya, I am working on a rather massive skyrim mod Discworld, and forget all that regular skyrim BS, storyboard something awesome and insane with me and instead of having some character who comments on how incredibly dull everything is in skyrim, you could have one who is actually a witch who helps the player get through spots by transforming into a cat to go through small openings while helping them save the world from a evil group of demon bards intent on summoning the yodeling dragon of legend to sing the world into oblivion! (That actually doesn't sound half bad gonna jot that down) But ya go crazy with me, the costume denoted I had a chance so woooo END OF SALES PITCH

 

I LIED FORGOT THE ALPHA TRAILER (it's out too btw just check my nexus profile)

[Kitteas]

Well I do have one kind of up that alley

 

 

As for the commentary one of the cool things is the conditions tab, you really don't need a lot of scripting in order for the follower to recognize what cell you are in etc

 

I will one up ya though, mostly because OMFG HARLEY QUINN COSTUME AWESOMENESS, but ya, I am working on a rather massive skyrim mod Discworld, and forget all that regular skyrim BS, storyboard something awesome and insane with me and instead of having some character who comments on how incredibly dull everything is in skyrim, you could have one who is actually a witch who helps the player get through spots by transforming into a cat to go through small openings while helping them save the world from a evil group of demon bards intent on summoning the yodeling dragon of legend to sing the world into oblivion! (That actually doesn't sound half bad gonna jot that down) But ya go crazy with me, the costume denoted I had a chance so woooo END OF SALES PITCH

 

I LIED FORGOT THE ALPHA TRAILER (it's out too btw just check my nexus profile)

Oooooh. Thanks!!!!

Dang, I had a derp-moment there. CS kit straight to the rescue, huh? :'P

Should have checked it more thoroughly, but then again, thanks for the tutorial - the instructions were just what I needed.

Is that what you'd recommend? Or does AFT/UFO provide templates of any kind to make the type of follower I'm envisioning? I'd love to have some sort of TES pet project to devote myself to, just like I had with Morrowind.

& hahaha, ohman, your mod looks terrific. I love the concept! It's very out of the box/challenging, which are both things I adore.

If you're extending an offer for me to help contribute towards it (yes, no, maybe so?!), the answer is a definite yes! If not, then my bad for assuming and I'll be enjoying it as a player. ;')

I went as Harley this year because my friend and I tend to scheme. Harley's also on the same career path as I am - criminal psychologist turned eh, maniacal villain? I'll take that. Lol.

YOU GON' BE THE JOKER THEN, SON?! : D

[DDProductions83]

Lol seeing as you are up super late as well (socal here to) check yer inbox in a min

[Kitteas]

Ahah. Gots it. Will do. : )

(Hurrah for insomnia!)

[DDProductions83]

Mine at the moment is some weird ass tinnitus in my left ear, just like random thumping so I cant sleep easily, not with heartbeat or anything had it before and dr thinks its sinus but I nommed some sudafed so meh not working. Also when a pharmacist asks "Do you want generic or name brand" DO NOT RESPOND WITH "Which one makes the best meth"

Some of them have like 0 sense of humor

[Kitteas]

Mine at the moment is some weird ass tinnitus in my left ear, just like random thumping so I cant sleep easily, not with heartbeat or anything had it before and dr thinks its sinus but I nommed some sudafed so meh not working. Also when a pharmacist asks "Do you want generic or name brand" DO NOT RESPOND WITH "Which one makes the best meth"

Some of them have like 0 sense of humor

I'm currently suffering from the same thing! It's not the main culprit of why I can't sleep, but it's an accessory to this attempt on murder of my sanity.

Bahaha, how did the Sudafed thing go?! Oh please tell me you actually said that. Haha!

That reminds me of how I was at Sprouts the other day. One of my (personal) pet peeves it some people's intense worshipping of holistic methods, at least when they begin to tell me how cinnamon cured their brother's uncle's girlfriend's sister's sister-wife's brain cancer.

So this saleswoman at Sprouts began what appeared to be a well-rehearsed, passionate sales pitch on the miraculous healing powers of Garlic pills, which she claimed had caused someone's cancer to just 'up and disappear'.

I was annoyed and I had a cold at the time, so I responded with, "Cool. Do you have anything for Ebola"

The look on her face, man... The LOOK on her face... lol.

[DDProductions83]

You and me.. we gonna get along

Yea I said it, much to my wifes horror lol, then when he asked for my name cause I was picking up a prescription I followed with Heisenberg, cause why not beat a horse is my motto rofl

[DDProductions83]

Now I'm thinking of a quest where we kill preachy hippies...

This is why I love my mod, we just yolo it

One of the quests already in and working in the alpha involves protecting a young girl from zombie bards as she harvests fresh organs to sell on the black market.. :) They jump out of sarcophagi and sing while you beat them and their singing hurts your health, the whole time the girl is screaming things like "FUS ROH DAH MY EARDRUMS INTO PASTE"

I died once cause I was watching her scream and accidentally let the bards singing kill me during testing, that's when I know it's awesome, on the 10th test run I'm still laughing

[Kitteas]

Hahaa! My fiance is often horrified toooo! It's awesome. :'D

Once we got stopped in the middle of the night while driving back home (we got lost in a residential suburban jungle). I had some blankets wrapped all suspiciously in the back of my car (I was in the process of moving to his place and uh, never actually got around to removing the blankets...)

A cop asked us what we were doing circling around this weird neighborhood at 2 AM, and then I just derp'd and said: "Uh, I'm lost. ...I'm an asian driver, 'nuff said." He lol'd, but then he peered inside towards the backseat, asking what everything there was. I responded with, "Just bodies, sir."

My fiance turned as white as a sheet! But the officer laughed, we came out of it surprisingly un-shot, and I gave the puppy dog eyes in return for the officer's mercy + GPS directions back home.

& haha, that's epic. lmao.

I'd love if the zombies began to question the ethics of what she's doing, while everyone ignores the obvious morality issue and concentrates on how a line in one of the Bards' songs don't rhyme. 'tis the true travesty, aye? ; )

Speaking of the term 'YOLO' though, am I the only one who's ever thought it sounds OMINOUS?!

It's straightforward: You Only Live Once.

How people took from that a justification to try and attempt to win all the Darwin Awards in the world baffles me! It's more of a reminder of my own MORTALITY THANKS, DRAKE.