bamani71 Posted July 15, 2017 Posted July 15, 2017 Hi All, I followed a great video tutorial on creating creature companions and was able to make a stand alone dog companion. My problem is that I can't get him to equip any of the armor I give him. It may be because of the custom race, but that was the only way for me to change his color without it affecting Dogmeat. Also, how do I keep him from taking up a companion slot?
JonathanOstrus Posted July 15, 2017 Posted July 15, 2017 Hi All, I followed a great video tutorial on creating creature companions and was able to make a stand alone dog companion. My problem is that I can't get him to equip any of the armor I give him. It may be because of the custom race, but that was the only way for me to change his color without it affecting Dogmeat. Also, how do I keep him from taking up a companion slot? The reason you can't equip stuff is exactly because of the race. You would have to modify every item you want to allow equipping and add your new race to it. This becomes problematic in case of other mods that also modify records. For example *any* sorting mod. You might be able to dupe the dogmeat skin armor and armor addon records and then put in a new texture swap on the new armor addon record. You can do that for human npc's to make them have a custom skin without needing to race change and stuff. I would think it should work on dogs as well. For making your new dog not use the companion slot, you'd have to make your own companion scripts.
bamani71 Posted July 15, 2017 Author Posted July 15, 2017 Changing his race back to DogmeatRace definitely worked, thank you! As for the companion scripts, would it be possible to copy the Dogmeat actor and be able to capture them? Or would they be in his quest (which is really involved)
JonathanOstrus Posted July 15, 2017 Posted July 15, 2017 Changing his race back to DogmeatRace definitely worked, thank you! As for the companion scripts, would it be possible to copy the Dogmeat actor and be able to capture them? Or would they be in his quest (which is really involved) I'm not sure what you mean by "capture" them? Dialogue options are in quests. The actual companion system is on the Followers quest as scripts. I haven't messed with it much myself so I can't really get more in depth than that.
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