About This File
With the advent of the MMD Anime Race comes anime followers! I've converted my Neptune and Compa followers from my old Elin Race followers mod, using voice clips taken from the Hyperdimension Neptunia series of games, with added voice lines, new assets, and bug fixes! In addition, the mod is fully standalone, with its assets separate from the main MMD race. If you wish to preview their voice lines, please take a listen to the videos under their sections in the Elin Follower link above.
Requirements:
Dawnguard
HDT Physics Extension
Technical:
Both followers are located at the Temple of Kynareth in Whiterun. They are essential, and can be recruited together, with just a handful of voice lines that only play if the other is tagging along with you at the same time. They use a custom UUNP preset for their bodies and outfits, along with a modified XPMSE skeleton, modified Anime Race skin texture, and the normal maps for body and hands from Fair Skin Complexion. As with any mod featuring NPCs with custom voices, you must save and reload on first load in order for them to start speaking. Because of the Anime race's unique head shape, most helmets and head accessories will not fit on them out of the box, so they are best paired with invisible headgear mods, like this one! Follower overhauls such as EFF may be able to be used on them for features such as outfit changing, but with limitations. Do not attempt to force recruit them while they are already following you, and Compa will not use her healing spell as long as she is under EFF's system instead of the default recruitment, so dismiss her from EFF's system whenever you're done futzing about with whatever it is you needed to do.
This mod is not compatible with my previous Elin Follower mod. A handful of things, such as the followers' recruitment scripts and two of the followers themselves still share IDs with the old versions, since I'm not comfortable mucking about too much with things like scripts.
Archer Follower Neptune:
Weight: 0
Preferred equipment: Bows, Two-Handed Swords, Heavy Armor
Starting equipment: Iron Greatsword, Hunting Bow, Steel Arrow x200, Parka Dress (Iron)
Starting stats: 100 Health, 50 Magicka, 100 Stamina
Perks: Juggernaut (Rank 3), Conditioning, Reflect Blows, Overdraw (Rank 2), Quick Shot, Ranger, Deep Wounds (Rank 1), Light Foot
Neptune is here once again, now with a new outfit! New hair, new shoes, and her signature parka dress! A user on Reddit converted models from HDN into a follower mod, which then paved the way for me to take it and completely ruin it make a UUNP conversion out of it, albeit an imperfect one. Her stockings had to be taken from elsewhere as they were textured directly onto her legs, though. Aside from the new assets, she is largely unchanged from the previous mod, except for several dozen new voice clips added to her.
Neptune favors long range combat with bows and crossbows, but knows her way around a greatsword when enemies get in close! Her dress, bracers, and shoes are identical to iron armor, while her hair clips occupy the circlet slot. Copies of her equipment equivalent to iron, steel, dwarven, orcish, steel plate, ebony, daedric, and dragonplate armor can be crafted at a forge if you have the original cuirass, gauntlets, or boots in your inventory, while the hair clips can be crafted using one silver ingot. In addition, her stockings and other clothing can be crafted at a tanning rack using one linen wrap each. By which I mean her underwear. Which is still the canon cyan color. Just thought you should know that again.
Healer Follower Compa:
Weight: 80
Preferred equipment: None
Starting equipment: Woven Heart outfit, Minor Healing Potion x5
Starting stats: 80 Health, 100 Magicka, 80 Stamina
Perks: Stealth (Rank 5), Recovery (Rank 2), Avoid Death, Light Foot
Compa, on the other hand, continues to use the mashup outfit I created for her using various other clothing mods, as no similar asset conversion exists yet for her HDN model in Skyrim. She does, however, feature some new shoes and socks made by LL's own Vioxsis when I requested it back in 2015 waaaayyy back when, in a mod search topic that doesn't even exist anymore and I just never got around to adding it into the Elin version because I am just the worst. Plus some new amateur-hour texture editing done by me to her stockings which honestly could use a lot more work but I just don't have time for that, there's so much to do! As with Neptune's clothing, you can craft copies of Compa's clothes at a tanning rack, using leather, linen wraps, tundra cotton, and garnets. She also features some new voice clips, though not as many as Neptune, as well as a few tweaks to her healing spell. For one thing, the second and third ranks actually work now. They didn't actually heal past the level 1 version last time. The armor and magic resistance buffs worked, but health? Nada. Would've been nice to know, huh? Also increased the healing done by all three ranks by 20-25%, for 120 HP over 10 seconds at level 1, 180 HP over 10 seconds at level 15, and 250 HP over 10 seconds at level 30, up from the previous 100, 150, and 200. Then again, since they didn't actually heal anything before I guess that makes it an infinity% increase for ranks 2 and 3.
Compa's main gimmick is her area of effect healing magic, which she will stop and channel for ten seconds if she or the player is below half health and she has enough magicka. For these ten seconds, the player and all followers in the area will restore health every second as well as gain 300 armor rating and 50% magic resistance. Compa is more comfortable healing than hurting, however, so she is not skilled with any weapons or armor. She can wear armor at fairly low effectiveness, but will ignore weapons entirely in favor of her fists. To make her tougher than she looks, though, Compa's unarmed damage will increase as you level up, gaining an additional 5 damage every fifth level up to level 100 for +100 damage per punch. She also benefits as normal from equipment with Fortify Unarmed effects, but since she won't pick up a weapon, she won't be able to use weapon enchant effects.
Miscellaneous/Known Issues:
- Certain Anime Race facial expressions look really funky if used on an NPC. I should have taken care of most of them, but if anyone finds a voice line that still tries to use an expression like Puzzled, please let me know so I can change it.
- The other two followers in the Elin version, Lily and Vivi, are not in this one. I don't know if they'll make a return at this time, at least not before other morph options are available for the main Anime Race. Recipes for their old equipment have been dummied out as their assets are not included in this mod, but I've not tested it to see if it works so please let me know if you're seeing recipes for meshless items at the forge when carrying around pieces of light armor.
- Dialogue that was intended to play expressing exhaustion when leaving a dungeon did not work as desired, instead causing the old followers to complain about being tired all the time when travelling around and crossing outdoor cell boundaries. This version has a new set of conditions but I have not had a chance to see if they work.
- Vanilla world interaction dialogue appears to take precedence over Neptune and Compa's if they are recruited alongside vanilla voice type followers.
Credits:
- Shangus5759 for creating the MMD Anime Race, and Speaker60 for his contributions to the race's assets and assistance with the followers
- Idea Factory and Compile Heart are the owners of Neptune, Compa, and all ripped game assets for the purpose of copyright
- HHaleyy for Fair Skin Complexion's normal maps
- Random Talking Bush from The Models Resource for ripping the original Neptune model
- BadNewsGoodNewsandFauxNews from GameMaps for converting the Neptune model to Skyrim's format
- Atreyatan from LL for assisting with mesh woes
- The Bodyslide team for making Outfit Studio, which lets even a clueless schmoe like me make shitty conversions
- Anano for Osare Kneesocks, Osare Panty, and Amiella Outfit used in outfits and world models
- Fox6000 for bracers taken from two of his outfits
- Lostdaywalker for his Winter Sweater, used in Compa's outfit
- KURESE and Nausicaa for the stockings used in Compa's outfit
- Hepsy for the original meshes for the Neptune's stockings and underwear, Halofarm for converting them to Skyrim in Aether Suite
- Matthiaswagg for her guide on making followers with a custom recruitment system (http://skyrimmw.weeb...odding-tutorial)
- Deck16 for his guide on giving NPCs custom voices (http://deck16.net/po...n-skyrim-part-1)
What's New in Version 1
Released
- Initial release
