Lex's Follower Howto (Warning! Long!)

[Ironcossack]

Yup been added to the NPCFollowersLIST, not sure what's going on, script is the same as above (with Pinchy replacing MikaSniper etc.)

 

Will carry on the fiddling with the GECK to see if there isn't something I've missed.

 

Edit: Just checked and while I had made the topics, it seems that the dialogue doesn't load automatically since Pinchy's was initially unpopulated with any topics, so clicked on the Dialogue button for Jericho (which opened up all the topics he can talk about) and then went back to Pinchy and her topics showed up under the Dialogue so might have had something to do with it, will test now.

 

2nd Edit: Nope that didn't seem to help either, still no response besides looking at me blankly from Pinchy, what I may end up doing is just editing the MishkaSniper files instead, since it seems a tad easier than from scratch but I'd prefer not to plaguerise other peoples hard work.

[ar13]

Ironcossack, I don't have a solution for you but I find your mod idea quite amusing. If you work it out, let us know.

 

Just thinking out loud, maybe have a look at Fawkes, because I imagine Pinchy counts as a creature, not an NPC. I haven't really looked to see if there are any real differences, though.

[Ironcossack]

Ah well, thanks for seeing if you could think of a solution, It's probably the fact there's a rogue element somewhere that I haven't corrected which is mildly annoying especially since I had written on those dialogue pieces (<Pinchy doesn't look amused> when you tell her to go home but then change your mind for example, accompanied with the Radscorpion attack sound).

 

Will probably just Edit Dogmeat or your Mika into being a Rad Scorpion, which is a shame as I would have prefered a seperate NPC follower and everybody and their...erm...dog seems to be editing Dogmeat into something. I can understand why though when they make adding in NPC followers so tedious/diffcult.

[steph87]

Quest "Followers"

I've duplicated everything Cross has under that dialogue.

Now my follower is in game but has no dialogue (i talk to him and get a blank dialogue box).

Do I need to create a new dialogue that is the equivalent of Quest "FollowersHireCross" for my npc or edit PaladinCross one maybe?

 

Another weird thing is that he keeps staring at the ceiling like he's stoned or something like that. :blink:

[nullifer]

I accidently messed up the conditions on Starpaladincross's default ai package...

can someone please tell me the cell and ref that it is originally suppose to be.

thanks!

[jmayor]

alright. I finally completed all the alterations with dialogue and what have you..put him in my follower list under misc....I start up game..go to talk to my NPC..and when I "hail" him the ONLY option I get is "I gotta get going".....nothing else.

 

does that help pinpoint where a problem may be?

 

The dialogue's I edited was the first option for "QUEST:Followers"....went to all the options except the dogmeat ones...but I see further down the SCRIPTS tab is several FollowersHireCross..ones...do they have to be edited also in order to start the dialogue?

 

thanks...dunno why I can't get this working...it saved w/o any errors.

[dontpanic]

If you put screenshots in your tutorial it may help a whole lot more people. I got your directions and struggled trying to understand your way of teaching. I still could not figure out some stuff and really hope you revise some stuff for better clarity. Until then I wait and hope for a reader friendly tutorial on how to make custom followers.

 

Is it possible to put a default.esp file for users to use as a template for custom NPC's?

[jmayor]

still looking to get this right...

[ar13]

No need to copy FollowersHire<someone> topics. I think what's going on is that your topics are not eligible for your NPC to say.

 

Possible causes that I know of:

NPC must be added to NPCFollowerslist or otherwise selected in quest conditions

The topic's conditions must select NPC correctly

GREETING must add topic FollowersHired

Quest must be "Start game enabled"

There must be top level topics available

 

There will be a new version of the guide soon. In order to get Mika in compliance with my new system, I moved her topics to a new quest, and sure enough, she didn't have her flashlight dialog. Adding her to the quest conditions (GetIsID, NPC MikaSniper) fixed that.

 

Please, I'm not going to be able to debug people's mods by remote control. But this once, could someone who has followed the guide pm me your mod, and I'll have a look at it.

 

I may (probably?) have missed a step in my guide, and as I sort of allude to in it, this description is provisional. It turns out not to have been the best way, but that's why I posted it, so we could get a process described. But it did actually work.

[jmayor]

well I think my error is somewhere in the GREETING part..just not sure where or how..

 

also..I don't know if I accidently altered something to Cross's dialogue/etc but she now does the same thing...I go to talk to her and she gives me her dialogue up to the point I can select some questions/responces..and all I can choose is "gotta go"..so I can't hire her now either..

 

I'll see about getting my .esp up somewhere to PM it to you to have a look....