Scripting for mercenary

[lillbobby]

I am working on a mod that I believe would be pretty sweet. Ive done some of the work so far but am stumped on how to make a vendor sell mercenaries. When it comes to scripting Im really new at it so any help would be totally apreciated.

[GreatLucifer]

Selling mercenaries... Do you mean selling people?

[David Brasher]

You will have to have a quest with some custom dialog options. A companion cannot be bought and sold like a sword or apple. It will not be done in the merchant minigame. You will need to make a result script in your dialogs that changes a quest variable, setstage, or global variable to trigger a custom AI package on the mercenary.

 

Your task is quite doable, but it has many interacting parts and all of them must be done right.

 

I recommend that you download my mod The Cave of WishCraft and see how the mercenary in that mod works. He himself has the dialog rather than a store owner, but some of the principles are the same.

 

Here is a link to a tutorial you might find useful:

Simple Companion Tutorial

[lillbobby]

You will have to have a quest with some custom dialog options. A companion cannot be bought and sold like a sword or apple. It will not be done in the merchant minigame. You will need to make a result script in your dialogs that changes a quest variable, setstage, or global variable to trigger a custom AI package on the mercenary.

 

Your task is quite doable, but it has many interacting parts and all of them must be done right.

 

I recommend that you download my mod The Cave of WishCraft and see how the mercenary in that mod works. He himself has the dialog rather than a store owner, but some of the principles are the same.

 

Here is a link to a tutorial you might find useful:

Simple Companion Tutorial

 

 

 

Thank you for the help, I will download the mods and check it all out. I am hoping to make each city its own faction and have it only after you beat the main quest line. I have a great story line, A working base for a fortress that I have made and many ideas to throw in the mix. All I need to do is figure out this scripting thing lol.