Difference between revisions of "Simple Companion Tutorial"

Start customizing your companion like you would do any other NPC with stats, items, weapons, skills and facial features. If you do not know how to use all those features I suggest you see the Basic NPC Creation Tutorial: http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Basic_NPC_Creation_Tutorial

-One thing your companion can't do is repair their items so eventually they will get weaker and be unable to fight. You can do one of three things to solve this problem. One is to use easy companion share and take their items and repair them yourself, or code a self repairing script for your companion, or make custom items with 9999999 health and make the npc have 1000 base armor to eliminate item degrading and ensure they will stay at 100% durability forever. If you give them 1000 armor then you may want to consider lowering other stats to balance them out. You can also see the talk about undegradable items here: http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/How_do_I_create_armor_or_weapons_that_cannot_be_destroyed

-If you find your companion not able to keep up with you while traveling you may want to give them a very high speed stat. Also if you're more advanced in scripting you may also want to give them automatic catch up where they teleport a certain distance close to you when they get too far away. It may also be a good idea to script them to ride horses or sneak when you ride horses and sneak. For more on getting NPC’s to do the same actions with you check out this page: [[NPCs%2C_Horses%2C_and_you...]]