Help creating companion mods

[crazyjake252]

Hey, I was hoping that someone who knows how to make a companion mod with the companion wheel and some basic dialogue would be willing to post it here... it would make it so much easier for me to make a companion mod, as opposed to taking a shot in the dark and hoping for the best.

[dubiousintent]

Have you taken a look at the "Custom NPC" and "Dialogue & Lip-sync" sections of the "Getting started creating mods using GECK" article?

 

I would also look into using "JIP NVSE" plugin and the "JIP Companion Command and Control" mod.

 

-Dubious-

Edited February 15, 2017 by dubiousintent

[madmongo]

This is an excellent tutorial:

http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/45278/?

 

The example is a bit more complicated than it needs to be in that it has two quests, one to hire the NPC and another that runs the NPC's dialog. For a simple companion, you don't need the hire quest. You can just do the hiring through dialog.

 

If you just take a shot in the dark you'll probably never get the command wheel to work. It is looking for very specific dialog topics, which is all explained in the above tutorial.

 

One trick with making NPCs: If you create the NPC in an esp, you can run into the infamous head/body mismatch bug. There are some settings you can change that fix the bug on some computers, but if you want it to work on all systems, define the NPC in an esm file.