Followers

[stolid]

I made a new NPC, but I can't figure out how to get it to follow me. I set its faction to Follower.

 

Also, how can I make a NPC offer repair services?

[Holty07]

Followers require a lot of work. Lots of things need to be changed for them to be able to follow you. I believe the repair services can be set on a NPC with the specifc checkbox when editing them. However you will need to make the Topics of conversation and s on for it.

[Skotte]

Making a Companion:

Simplest way to have a follower is to get >Sharing and Caring Companions< & the "SCC Companion Tutorial" you can get there

 

Repair service:

 

this post was invaluable for adding repair to one of my npc's

 

All right, I'll try to give a basic walkthrough, since it's pretty complicated...

 

1. Go to the Quest section. Right click and select "New".

2. Fill in the quest name and ID, blah blah blah, set it to priority 50 (I don't think it really matters as long as it's in increments of 10 and is from 10 to 100), make sure you check the box that says "Start Game Enabled".

3. Click OK.

4. Open your quest again and go to the Topics tab and right click in the left field. Select "add topic".

5. Right click on the menu that comes up and select "new". Enter a name you can remember for your topic. Hit OK.

6. Type in the Topic Text box what you want the start of dialogue to be.

7. Right click on the field below that and hit New.

8. Fill in the response text (what the NPC will say back to you) and select any idle animations you want to use, or go to Emotions Type and select what mood the NPC will look like they're in when their response is shown. Click OK.

9. Go to the conditions field and select New. Select GetIsID -- it should be the first one that comes up when you open the field. Click on the button that says INVALID and select which NPC you want to target (hint: it's the NPC whose dialogue you're writing). Click OK.

10. That's it for simple interactions. If you want to add further chunks of dialogue, repeat steps 4 through 9, but in the topic that you just made, go to the Choices field and select Add Topic. Find the topic title of the next string of dialogue that you're going to use and hit OK. It helps if you name a bunch of topics beforehand in step 4 so you don't get confused. Name them something like "Dialogue 1, Dialogue 2, etc." so you can quickly pick them out of the long list of topics. It's important, however, that if you're adding further topics to a particular dialogue tree, you uncheck the box at the top that says "Top-level" -- this is only for topics that will be displayed when you first talk to the NPC.

11. If you want your topic to end a conversation, click on the box that says "Goodbye". Otherwise, it'll take you back to the main dialogue menu when you're talking to an NPC.

12. If you only want the conversation to be said once, select the "Say Once" box. Otherwise, your topics will come up repeatedly.

13. Go to the dialogue tree to make sure your conversations are where they should be. If they're not, DO NOT edit them in the dialogue tree. Go back to the Topics tab and edit them there (trying to edit them in the dialogue tree causes the GECK to crash for some reason).

14. Click OK at the bottom right corner of the window.

15. Save your mod.

 

It should work after that. If it doesn't, go back and make sure you didn't miss any steps. Adding dialogue is meticulous work and it's easy to get lost.

 

Hope that helps.

 

& don't be afraid to check some stock npc's like moria for inspiration

[stolid]

I'm not sure what I did, but now my NPC is hostile toward me without provocation. Any ideas on how to fix that? It also would attack another NPC I tried making (a kid--but that was awhile before this, it wasnt always hostile toward me). But right now my main concern is its relationship to me.

[stolid]

I'm not sure what I did, but now my NPC is hostile toward me without provocation. Any ideas on how to fix that? It also would attack another NPC I tried making (a kid--but that was awhile before this, it wasnt always hostile toward me). But right now my main concern is its relationship to me.

Anyone?

[Crowbennett08]

I'm not sure what I did, but now my NPC is hostile toward me without provocation. Any ideas on how to fix that? It also would attack another NPC I tried making (a kid--but that was awhile before this, it wasnt always hostile toward me). But right now my main concern is its relationship to me.

Anyone?

 

drink some coffee, and piddle in the geck for many hours.

[NaboeN]

I'm gonna cheat when I make my follower.

 

Download a random one, change it's dialogue to something else, change it's id, and press yes on the box that pops up. Will it work? I dunno, should it work? Yes, forr all I know atleast

[JimboUK]

http://www.finhosting.fi/~fallout/cgi-bin/...?num=1230434906

 

You may find this useful.

[Deleted1084753User]

As a general basis yes, but I found that opening up another follower (in my case Jessi) and using that as a reference for my own was the best method. Twice I've tried getting a follower to work using that guide, and twice I've had huge problems with it. After I used Jessi as reference I got my follower working without issue (the guide there is a good starting point though, making a follower is a pretty involved and tricky process at times).