Kat's Companions

[Kathonica]

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Hi there!

 

So, a few months ago, I began tinkering around with the Creation Kit for the first time: in part because I like to create things, and in part because I couldn't find too many followers that I really liked. A few days of silly mistakes and much CK-crashing later, I had two created and working in the game. A lil' later, I had one packaged up and ready for testing!

 

Theeeeeennn as I am prone to do, I completely lost interest in Skyrim for a while. It's the kind of game I'll pick up almost exclusively for a month or two; then leave alone for a while. About a week ago, I picked it right back up again - and lo and behold; still had that one package still tucked safely away from the frenzied clutter-cleaning I get into once in a while.

 

Thus, I'd like to present her here for testing - and have a topic open for any other NPCs I create along the way. I do have one other, but I never set her up as a standalone - and would have to go find my guides again before I can put something together.

 

Selan (Arcadia's Cauldron: Whiterun)

 

At the moment, she's the most basic of Followers. She stabs, flings ice bolts, angers your other followers from time to time, and blocks narrow hallways with her sorceress-y hips.

 

My plan a few months ago was to start tinkering with items and quests and couriers and the like so that I could put some actual setup and development for her as a character into the game with her - and should I get the CK to play nice again, I think I'll look at that. I had wanted to do a lot of custom dialogue; but it would feel a little odd to have it totally unvoiced.

Let me know what you think - and please let me know if it doesn't work or breaks things in weird and wonderful ways! This being my first attempt at modding, it's likely I've mucked a few things up in the process - and I'd like to get it working good n' proper before I go completely crazy with the NPC-making.

 

To install: Extract into your Skyrim directory.

 

Bonus sneak peek at the next follower:

 

Zevvi (In development)

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• Submitter
  Kathonica
• Submitted
  08/08/2013
• Category
  Companions
• Requires
• Special Edition Compatible

 

[flutie]

R there any requirements, I get ctd with her loaded

 

[Kathonica]

R there any requirements, I get ctd with her loaded

It's supposed to be completely standalone. I'm looking into what might be missing now.

[Stirasik]

They look awesome, I'm looking forward to Zevvi

[Koko.Hekmatyar]

OK I opened her up in CK and it's showing her with 3 parent files that are marked as unknown one of which is BAMM seeing as when I try to load it it says it can't find that Master File.

 

 

[Kathonica]

OK I opened her up in CK and it's showing her with 3 parent files that are marked as unknown one of which is BAMM seeing as when I try to load it it says it can't find that Master File.

 

Yup! I 'removed' the masters using Wrye Bash a couple of days ago; but she was causing my vanilla install to crash whenever she was present in a scene.

 

Unfortunately, the process of actually making said install completely borked my 'regular' installation of Skyrim - so I've had to completely wipe the game and re-mod it from scratch. I'll need to find someone with a clean installation to test these things in my stead, I think, and then work the followers all over from the very beginning this time.

 

I'll probably start with Zevvi; as I had her RaceMenu data backed up in a text file already.

[hater34]

From Wyre Bash it requires AzarHair and Mashup UNP.  That was the reason I had a CTD

[Guest]

I just wanna know how to make that body O_O. Is it made by using BodySlide?

[Kathonica]

They're made using Bodyslide, yes. My ultimate intent is to have these followers come with their own shapes and armors without requiring any of the mods they came from - but the Standalone Follower guide is a little vague on certain points. Since I've had to start over from scratch anyway, I'm taking more time in re-creating them so I can hopefully ensure there won't be any CTD-causing dependencies.

[Arcanic_Eye]

I keep getting CTD's when I installed Selan. =(

[hater34]

I keep getting CTD's when I installed Selan. =(

she requires mashunp armor and another item which I forgot. yeah Kat said he/she is making them standalone

[obok]

Impressive, waiting for zevvi

[s.eden]

Interesting, in case as to voice, look for the "Voice Actor Guild".
But, before starting a thread there, prepare :

Dialogues scripts

Description (basic) of the character saying it, with elements as to context of the saying.
Eventual others information related to quest and others involvements of the character.

It is where most of the voiced mod find VA.
(Then, when a mod become popular (look at Interesting NPC for instance) they are people offering service after playing the plugin, but that is not the most common occurrence by far.

[s.eden]

And otherwise, if no VA found but dialogue there, not a big deal, release them (dialogue) and specify the need of Fuzz roh da (the silent file creator, needed as to every dialogue adding, non voiced mod ..).

 

[Hollow_Fang]

They look good hope there will be voice actors and accessories like BBP custom Armour eye classes small out of CK mods added to it with  interactivity with each other in voice and relationship

will probley down load when done

 

[Kathonica]

Well, then! I had somewhat abandoned this after realizing that I'd need a vanilla copy of Skyrim to actually sit down and figure out what went wrong with the initial release. The plan was to find a new tutorial on creating standalone followers and learn the process completely instead of going by the old, broken-up guide I was using before.

 

And then I stopped playing Skyrim; and then I wound up doing a reformat and leaving all my Skyrim mods behind. With the fresh install, I decided to do a little tinkering... and as it turned out, I may have done something incredibly silly and missed a teeny tiny step that may fix everything.

 

Long story short: I no longer have the data for the planned followers, but I think I can create better ones by now. But I'll need a few people to test the fixes I made to confirm that they solve the actual issue.

 

If you're interested in volunteering, just shoot me a PM! Once I've confirmed it's all good and working, I'll update the official release here.

[Calintz74]

 

R-il des exigences, je me CTD avec son chargé

Il est censé être complètement autonome. Je suis à la recherche de ce qui pourrait être aujourd'hui disparu.