[LE] Making a custom follower - managing equipment

[baseball3gb]

Hey guys!

 

I've taken the plunge into modding and have been working on a custom voiced standalone follower for the last few days as my first "real" mod and it's gone pretty swimmingly for the most part. I've been able to set up basic functionality just by piggybacking off of the vanilla follower system. My question is, how would I go about making it so that I/players could gain access to and manage my follower's equipment without having to rely on the vanilla system where they only wear better armor than what they're currently using? (i.e. similar to the systems used in EFF/UFO/AFT and used by Arissa/Vilja, etc )

 

Scripting in general is my weak point, so I'd appreciate it if you could dumb it down as much as possible!

 

Appreciate it!

[TheObstinateNoviceSmith]

Hello Baseball,

 

First off, the best thing you could do is NOT use the vanilla system for your custom follower. I forget why it's best to avoid doing that but I think it is because it will put your mod in conflict with any other follower that uses the vanilla set up (or tampers with it in some way).

 

Follow these tutorials and it will help you quite a bit in creating your follower...

 

Creating the Custom Follower's Functionality:

http://skyrimmw.weebly.com/skyrim-modding/making-a-custom-follower-skyrim-modding-tutorial

 

Creating the Custom Follower's Voice:

http://deck16.net/post/23029593001/making-a-unique-voiced-follower-in-skyrim-part-3

 

Creating Custom Appearance that doesn't Require People to Have Other Mods (Standalone):

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/25673/?

or

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/33106/?

 

Good luck.

[PeterMartyr]

There is no part about scripting that can be Dumb Down, jump in & swim, the only advise is use a good editor, get both, Notepad++ & Sublime. At the start you will prefer Notepad++, however once you start to get the gist of it, you fall in love Sublime & never look back.

 

Notepad++

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

 

to teach Notepad Papyrus

http://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=Notepad%2B%2B_Setup

 

Sublime

http://www.sublimetext.com/

 

to teach Sublime Papyrus

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/60810/?

 

Also book mark this these pages, Seriously.

 

http://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=Category:Events

 

http://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=Category:Condition_Functions

 

http://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=Category:Papyrus

 

Some times it's better to make a Grazillion mistakes & learn from them, than to follow a basic guide that misses stuff so duplicate the DialogueFollower Quest & get started.

 

The Potential Follower bit is in DialogueGeneric Quest Ex: "Follow me I need your help"

 

As a learning tool use ~ try not to be a copy cat.

 

Champollion a PEX to Papyrus decompiler

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/35307/?

 

Good Luck & don't expect it to happen over night, take a year to learn it.

 

A Trademans never blames his tools but they certainly help.

Edited January 16, 2017 by PeterMartyr