wolverinetree Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 Surprisingly, I can't really find any companion tutorials online, especially for NV. What can I do? Do you know of any tutorials? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SariDecember Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 Hi, search NVNexus for "Nosco", there you'll find the Nosco Companion system. The download section of the mod also contains a good tutorial that should do the trick! ;) Greetz *Sari Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolverinetree Posted October 10, 2011 Author Share Posted October 10, 2011 I mean, I just honestly wanted a way to create my own companions without another template. Just strictly using the GECK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llamaRCA Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 I mean, I just honestly wanted a way to create my own companions without another template. Just strictly using the GECK. If you are willing to look at a template for guidance (which is kind of the way I learned in FO3; I "tore apart" other mods to learn how to work with a companion) then looking at this mod which offers an esp as a template (and not a system which needs to be mastered into your esp) might be very helpful to you. It's designed so that the modder can skip the preliminary set up and get straight to the customizing of the companion. However, you could learn a lot about the preliminary set up from this mod, if you are willing to study it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drakeelvin Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 (edited) Surprisingly, I can't really find any companion tutorials online, especially for NV. What can I do? Do you know of any tutorials? There are no comprehensive tutorials. The aforementioned Nosco Companion System has the best startup tutorial there is, even though you may not want to use it you should read it and try it, you'll learn the basics. If you want to see how a stand alone companion is done you have all the ingame companions. If you want an overview of the important things that need to be updated to make your own stand-alone companion based on the vanilla companion engine take a look at Amigo Cafe, it's based on the vanilla coding they did for Cass. You can download the developer diary to get started. There is no all encompassing tutorial. I did Amigo Cafe by studying Nosco and using it a lot, then studying Cass and the other vanilla companions, and when I got stuck I posted specific questions. Took a long time to figure it out, I was new to modding. Looking back it all seems so easy now, but back then I had no tutorial so I used what had been written and had to fill in the blanks by researching and asking questions. Amigo Cafe is as close as I've seen to a stand-alone companion that works like the vanilla ones, though it does have many custom features I added to make the companion smarter and more configurable. I've tried to limit it to what is fundamental/core to a companion without adding additional baggage. So if you want to study the fundamentals as I say, you can look at it and at the developer diary to give you an overview of what's in the plugin. One day the developer diary may evolve into a comprehensive tutorial but for now, time permitting, I've limited it to just the most important areas of discussion its not really a tutorial, you need modding experience. EDIT: LOL @ Llama didn't realize you linked me there, my bad! Edited October 11, 2011 by drakeelvin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llamaRCA Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 EDIT: LOL @ Llama didn't realize you linked me there, my bad! I send people there all the time. It's too bad I can't give you an endorsement for every time I've recommended the mod; it's such a great resource. You explained it much better than I did. :tongue: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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