[LE] changing custom follower's home location and character size

[crystaldragon12]

hey everyone.

I'm brand new to modding and working on my first real mod at the moment, a follower/quest mod. this follower runs mostly off her own framework and I've gotten rid of most of the major bugs I experienced by looking at either vanilla NPCs and followers, or modded followers like Inigo. she also has a series of quests, which for the most part are all working, but the way the follower reacts to these quests is what has me stuck. during the quest her "home" location potentially changes several times,depending on the player's choices and I can't figure out how to do this properly. I tried looking at the Dark Brotherhood NPCs since some of them change locations, as well as Delphine from the Main Quest but couldn't find anything in their AI or quests that references a location change.

 

What I want to happen is this:

The player rescues this character from slavery, so when you find her, she's at her owner's house.

if you kill her owner, she will stay there until she can find "something more permanent"

If you let him live, she will go live at Honorhall (she's a child)

if you continue through her quest with her, she'll eventually find some of her family living in the wilderness of Skyrim, so after you find them, she'll go live with them instead.

 

what's the best way to manage this? would it be through AI packages? I tried that, and maybe I just set it up wrong but she seemed to ignore them for the most part and just kept going back to her original home. is it done through scripts on the actor or on the quest, if so, what would these scripts be? I'm just at a bit of a loss here.

 

also, not really related to this issue in particular, but a problem that is stemming from her being a child, specifically a beast race child that had no Vanilla race preset, is that I had to make her race by duplicating the Argonian race and making it smaller (0.75). that was fine, until I took her out into the world and she started using furniture and had a huge growth spurt (she grows to the size of a regular argonian, then shrinks back when she is done). How can I fix this? I know what's causing it, I changed the scale on the race which a lot of tutorials warn against, and I noticed that some Altmer actually do the same thing sometimes in Vanilla, but it's really subtle. I really don't want to have to edit the actual nif...I've yet to successfully get a .nif out of nifskope, into blender, and back into nifskope without something going wrong, not to mention the fact that armor wouldn't fit her anymore right? Is there a way I can tell the creation kit not to scale her up when using furniture? again, maybe a script or something? I know that within skyrim itself, you can scale the player character up or down using the "setscale" command in the console, and the Race Menu mod lets you do the same thing. no matter how big or small you make yourself with either, you don't change size when you use furniture, so it is possible right? personally I laugh every time it happens, but it is quite jarring to see.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Edited December 4, 2018 by crystaldragon12