Adding more top-level topics to vanilla NPC?

[z4x]

Does anyone know if it's possible to add more Top-Level dialogue topics to vanilla NPCs that have their 4-dialogue scenes defined already? And have my new topic infos to be displayed alongside the vanilla ones in Skyrim style?

 

Especially using XDI mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/27216? which unlocks more lines?

 

Example:

1. (vanilla) How do you feel about us?

2. (vanilla) That's all for now.

3. (vanilla) We should go our separate ways.

4. (vanilla) Thoughts?

5. (new) Some custom dialogue

 

 

 

[MarkusTay]

The way I've seen it done in a couple of custom companion mods is that the last choice (4) is something like, "I want to ask you something else", and then you can add the additional lines of text into that second set of dialogue.

 

And BTW, its annoying as hell... its one of the few things I dislike about Heather Casdin. However, I do realize it was the only way to give her as much depth as possible within the limited scope of the game engine.

 

There is an NPC in Club Snuggle (Outcasts & Remnants) that has a third list beyond the second (at least, I think that's where that is from), and MAN, is that annoying as heck. Trying to get to say the thing I need to say I have to dig through three levels of dialogue. Understandable for a companion; not so much for a fairly random NPC (they should have split the options across two NPCs to if they wanted that level of versatility). In other words, i have to do the "I want to ask you something else" TWICE.

 

So anyway, if some of those highly experienced modders who worked on that stuff couldn't figure-out how to add more options to a single drop-down, then it can't be done (IMO).