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

Now let's move on to the topics tab. First we must give our companion the same thing we must give all NPC’s. Right click on the empty list under Editor ID and select Add Topic. Scroll down untill you find '''GREETING''' in capital letters, select it and hit OK. Now right click in the empty list at the top under the Info column and select new. Type whatever you want in the response text, for my companion I will use “'''My will is at your command.'''” And you may play around with the emotion settings if you like. You may even add voice overs if you got the equipment for it but be warned if you can't do good voice overs then you shouldn’t do any at all. After you finish the response hit OK at the bottom.

Let's go back to our NPC window. Find your companion in the object window in the list of NPC's and double click it. Now lets click on the AI button near the bottom.

-If you plan to create more then one companion or use your companion mod along side others keep in mind you can't have more then 3 companions following you at once. This is something that cannot be changed, it is built into Oblivion’s engine. If you need to go on those escort quests like taking Martin to Cloud Ruler Temple, you may want to tell your companions to wait at certain locations and come pick them back up later.

-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...]]