Follower Overhaul Mods:Which Should I Get?

[G0ldSil3nce]

Hello, i just got a simple question, among the follower mods which is the least script intensive, most preferably can adjust attitude/combat behaviour, default outfit, living place and there isn't a need for multiple followers im content with one. Thank you for reading.

[Sharkness Monster]

I think http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/15524/? is good

 

Although I have a glitch in my Skyrim that makes it so that nobody ACTUALLY follows me, no matter what I do.

 

So I use http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/53532/?

Which forces anyone to follow you. At the expense of having no behavior/combat adjustments.

[Storms of Superior]

I only want the outfit management and nothing else. One follower is plenty.

[Ventus2111]

AFT or EFF. Those are the best, no matter how many features you need. UFO seems better for some people, but the truth is that it's filled with bugs and compatibility problems. So... use AFT or EFF.

[dTd]

Immersive AFT is updated and compatible with usleep. It's the best follower system I've tried, lite and works. One of the best new features is the ability to "stop managing" each follower. It has an MCM menu and is fully compatible with Interesting NPCs.

 

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/71689/?

[Chaos63]

I only want the outfit management and nothing else. One follower is plenty.

 

Same here. This is the one I'm always using.

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50693/?

 

[yurik]

I'm currently using the "Follower Mod"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1GSuy39Wu8

The killer feature for me was an ability to hotkey actions like trade, summon, avoid/init combat, stay/follow, etc.

It seems that it was removed from Nexus, but I still have the file...

[G0ldSil3nce]

I'm currently using the "Follower Mod"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1GSuy39Wu8

The killer feature for me was an ability to hotkey actions like trade, summon, avoid/init combat, stay/follow, etc.

It seems that it was removed from Nexus, but I still have the file...

It would be nice of you to release the file, and mofakin(creator of the mod)  seems to be banned from the skyrim nexus if u check his profile.

[aljustineg]

I'm currently using the "Follower Mod"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1GSuy39Wu8

The killer feature for me was an ability to hotkey actions like trade, summon, avoid/init combat, stay/follow, etc.

It seems that it was removed from Nexus, but I still have the file...

i wanna try this too, can you upload it

[yurik]

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1GSuy39Wu8

 

 

DESCRIPTION

Russian Version

Latest News

Good day dear friends and fans of good old RPG styled follower themes. Why that notion you ask? Because this grateful update will bring you closer to the experience of pasttime roleplaying games. It screams a big THANK YOU! towards your direction to give gratitude for 1.000 Endorsements...which is a huge amount given I'm not necessarily the most liked Modder. I just recently learned I'm a cancer, that needs to be driven away from the community...I'm probably also a, how'd they spell it on Reddit?...moralfag? Doesn't matter much, because as long as those "insurgents" are acting like Tony Montana on seventeen sacks of cocaine stiring up the masses, I'm proceeding with blocking their buttocks to Oblivion. However, let's not digress...where was I? Oh yes, the update...I think it's best if you just read the changelog, see the new screenshots and maybe take a look at the description...

Release 27.09.2015, Version 0.5:

- divided the MCM and Widget quest scripts, this should have an overall positive effect on various issues people reported, primarly related to widgets and the MCM...this should also fix combat styles/Classes not correctly baking into save, as well as other values that need to be transported via maintenance code...unfortunately this brings another issue...you need to start from a new game or the widgets will go all crazy!!!
- fixed combat style of third follower greyed out when second follower alias wasn't filled
- followers will now hide their torches when sneaking with player if you tell them via dialogue
- added new dialogue option to make followers stay passive when player moves stealthy
- fixed occasional bug when dismissing a follower, it wasn't counting as dimsissed
- fixed widget still showing last follower when all followers are dismissed
- improved the appearance of all widgets much...see new screenshots, they all have a customized icon theme similar to old RPG's like AD&D
- fixed typos inside AS scripts to create wrong display of status
- fixed anchor MCM option for fourth and fifth follower widget not working correctly
- fixed hotkeys not working for non-vanilla followers...this will also fix non working hotkeys for INPC followers and any custom using the vanilla follower framework
- fixed hotkey trade acting sometimes wonky on first follower
- fixed wait hotkey not working all the time
- fixed all hotkeys potentially acting wonky sometimes
- which follower to command is now dependend on how long you press the command hotkey
- changed dialogue response when owing money to followers to something more appropriate aka they respond more angry
- teaching a spell to a follower is now skill level dependend...if the followers skill level in the particular school of magic then the required minimum for the spell you want to teach, the spell can't be tought
- fixed not being able to redress followers recruited via the "recruit anyone as follower" dialogue function
- added missing followers from DLC's to the list of aliases, so now every single follower is covered 100%
- fixed followers being naked after dismissal and any other occasion...this needs to be varified, as it was a pain in the ass implementing it, and I'm unsure if it works for every occasion, specifically for followers that not have been recruited via the vanilla system
- added MCM toggle option to give followers the light food perk so they won't enable traps
- removed all extras: INPC-patch no longer needed, use the "recruit all" feature instead, requiem patch obsolete due to increasing incompatibility, white widgets obsolete due to widget improvement
- added a tag(FM) behind the "recruit all" dialogue so you know it's the correct dialogue to use from Follower Mod
- fixed all problems related to "recruit all" feature when recruiting via spell...this will effectively fix all problems related to third party follower mods...you can now safely recruit Inigo, Vilja, Hoth and all NPC's from Interesting NPC's...basically you can recruit any humanoid a follower now
- fixed wrong Erik assigned to follower alias section
- been searching my ass off finding a solution to compensate the deprecated .setLevel() function via script. There is no solution other then using the console with the command "setlevel 1000 0 1 100" (without quotes) after clicking the corresponding actor. I've been searching for this in order to create a way to level up followers that do not have the PC Level Mult enabled, which are primarly those followers that are not followers by default...I'm sorry, unless SKSE imports this setlevel command, there's nothing I can do...
- merged follower widget with widget section, and combat style section with follower section to make room for the new MCM follower skill level menus
- added full fledged attribute and skill customization to MCM menu, covering health, stamina, magicka and all of the 18 skills...you can use it without limits to customize, experiementation or cheating...your choice
- renamed Uthgerd the Unbroken to simply Uthgerd, due to annoyances with the widget and new menus to display her name
- added complete customized, hotkey based skill/stats menu for followers, it will inform you about attributes, resistances, combat-skills, stealth-skills and magic skills
- added hotkey based follower magic menu, both menus are derived from UiExtensions by Expired6978
- adapted skill display and spell teaching dialogue option to new menus
- first babysteps to create proper localization .txt file for easy translation...this will be forwarded in future versions
- and before you ask...no, no follower needs feature...I hate it to implement a feature that forces me to permanently micromanage my followers...this is just plain stupid...however, the promised relax feature, forcing you to give followers time to relax, or they will break down and eventually leave your group...this could be made in a fashion that it simulates the needs for food, drinks, sleep and sparetime
 

Requirements

1.Skyrim with the most actual patch and all DLC's (1.9.32.8)
2. Skyrim Script Extender
3. SkyUI
4. UIExtensions(optional)
5. FISS(optional)

How to install

Installation with NMM:

1. Press the download with Manager button on the Nexus and confirm the requested programm, or copy paste the url directly to Nexus Mod Manager
2. Once downloaded open up NMM and click this Mod to import the package.7z
3. After installation don't forget to enable the plugin file(s) in your prefered Mod organization tool
4. Use L.O.O.T to automatically sort your load order

Manual Installation:

1. Download and unzip the file anywhere
2. Move the .esp and .bsa file(s) (if present) to your 'x:\...Skyrim\Data' folder
3. Choose the patch file(s) (if present) you wish to use and copy to your Data folder
4. After installation don't forget to enable the plugin file(s) in your prefered Mod organization tool
5. Use L.O.O.T to automatically get the correct load order
 

Important Information

If you are using a new version of Follower Mod upon an existing character made with FM, make sure to make a clean save before playing on. How to do this? But remember, adding or removing Mods during serious gameplay is a VERY bad idea, no matter what kind of safety measures you've prepared.

1. Load your game and find an interior cell, save the game inside
2. Exit game, turn off the old .esp and load the previously made save, then save again inside
3. Exit game, install new version, turn on the new .esp, then go into the game and save again
4. Exit the game once more and then start playing with the clean save

If you happen to have left over script artefacts in your savegames, I recommend using Script Cleaner.
 

Description

You ever wanted a Follower Mod with lots of features, awesome widgets, hotkey controlable and general convenience that other follower mods couldn't give you because of refusing to use SKSE, SkyUI and other third party Mods as resource? Well, then this is exactly the follower mod you've been looking for. It has all the same basic features then all other prominent follower mods, plus it features complete DLC support, a MCM menu, follower widgets, custim skill and follower magic menu, the option to teach spells and powers to followers, setting their combat style and actor class from a range of 12 shemes, setting their carry weight, speed, aggression, confidence, assistance, morality and skills. It also features hotkeys for trading, commanding (including wait/follow), summoning, relaxing, combat avoidance, follower camera, drawing weapons, showing skills and exchange spells/powers. Widgets will show the name, health, magicka, stamina, carry-/inventory-weight, level and distance to the player. All Widgets are completely configurable via MCM and can also be turned off. They come in two color variations, white and the way I wanted them to be. The widget will also show you if your follower is waiting, relaxing or avoiding combat. Everything's summed up in a very convenient fashion and I promise it never felt better before. To round it all up from version 0.3 there's a wage system. Followers will now actually want money from you in order to stay with you. Now for in Detail descriptions:

Follower features:

- followers want money to stay with you, if you don't pay them, they'll leave
- recruit up to 5 followers
- followers can be interacted with via dialogue and hotkeys
- followers can be customized in MCM menu
- followers can learn spells and powers if their appropriate skill is high enough
- followers can dual wield
- followers no longer use default outfits and can be redressed to your liking, they will keep the clothes after dismisal
- all followers can be married
- all female followers have female animation
- occasional changes to follower outfits to make them less overpowered or look more appropriate
- housecarls will automatically sandbox at your home if not following you
- followers are now completely quest and area aware, this plays very nicely with Follower Commentary Overhaul
- followers wil now react to combat near you
- followers will no longer directly react to combat when the player is sneaking, this plays nicely with Better Stealth AI for Followers
- followers will use various idle animations when relaxing, sandboxing or not following you
- followers can relax, avoid combat and summoned
- follower camera showing the first follower looking at you
- diverse options for drawing weapon behaviour in MCM and via hotkey
- you can essentialize, ask for their skills and ignore friendly hits
- all followers from all DLC's supported as well as custom followers using vanilla follower system
- followers can be set to react faster when bumping into them
- followers will no longer trigger traps
- followers combat style is configurable in MCM menu
- followers actor class is configurable in MCM menu
- a completely customizable combat style for every follower
- option to make anyone a follower via spell or dialogue, this includes every single follower from every custom mod, yes, even Inigo, Vilja and Hoth
- dialogue option to make followers put away their torch when sneaking
- dialogue option for advanced stealth behaviour on followers
- give followers the light food perk via MC, so they will not trigger traps
- make any actor level with you by using the provided .bat file, see description further down
- custom menus to show follower statistics and follower spells/powers

The first question you probably ask is, why only 5 followers, couldn't you have done more? Yes, I could have done this. The alias system allows up to hundreds of followers, and the way I rescripted the follower framework it would also be easily implementable. But given the fact that any system can barily handle more then 10 followers at best, and playing with so much followers is extremely inconvenient, I decided against it. It's quality rather then quantity. I also drew inspiration from games like Dragon Age, Dead Souls and old RPG's like Advanced Dungeons & Dragon Series, or Fallout. The maximum number of followers they allowed where somewhere between 4-6. You never got to gather a whole army behind your back. It's no fun either, since all the followers would block any entrance and the world around you. The second question you ask may be about why I'm using hotkeys and widgets. Well, I'm no immersion Nazi, but immersion, imho, can only be broken to a certain degree. I deem popping up message menus that unnecessarily pause the game, or complicated dialogue structures as extremely inconvenient, as well as functions that are only rarely used or never used at all. At the same time I wanted to have a convenient way of information and interaction options with followers, hence why I used widgets and hotkeys. If you think widgets and hotkeys break immersion inside a medieval themed world, you may be right, but I deem it even more unimmersive if I'm constantly forced to enter dialogue or message menus to figure what my followers are about. Communication can be non-verbal. Soldiers in silent battle for example, never use any verbal communication. Why not simply think hotkeys like they were signal of hands?

There's also the option to make anyone a follower by using a lesser power or via dialogue. You'll need to enable the feature in MCM. Unfortunately some NPC's are excluded by their voicetypes, and prone to bug out, specially elder people and children. So for now, I don't recommend recruiting them until I squished this bug. I don't want to exclude them per se, but if nothing else works, this is what's going to happen.

About the wage system: This deserves a section on its own. The wage system is completely optional and can be toggled inside the MCM. You can set up the gold amount per hour in the MCM. Default is 1 Gold. It will multiply with the follower count. So if you have 2 followers and a loan count of 3, the amount of payment will raise by 6 Gold every hour, summing to a maximum of 144 Gold per 24 hours(1 day). I recommend using 1 Gold though, or you will be broke faster then Lehman Brothers. It will compare to a threshold, which can also be setup in the MCM. Once the payment amount reaches the threshold, your followers will leave your service...ALL of them, not just one. You can then pay the money to any follower you've previously met and again will be able to recruit them. It's probably a good idea to not even let it come this far, I recommend checking dialogue with them at least once a day (depending on your MCM settings) and pay their loan...specially if you use Needs Mods where you need to sleep. The loan can be payed to all followers following you, but is isn't counted individualy, to reflect the how the followers group behind you for money. Future updates will import the need for food, drinks and time to relax. Maybe I can even implement a feature where followers are brawling each other for the money and treasures you give them, but for now I want to test out the wage only, to figure if the system is probarly running, and to squish bugs in the process.


About using the provided .bat file. Bethesda decided to remove the .setLevel() script function with Skyrim version 1.6, and thus removing any ability to directly customize actor levels via script. There are solutions to "emulate" manually leveling up actors, by raising their attributes/skills, but their actually level never changes. However, you can use a console command to make actors that you recruited as followers, which normally aren't followers, level up with you, just like the vanilla followers do. You can also customize their skills in MCM beforehand. Just download the provided .bat file and place it inside your Skyrim folder (not Data), then go ingame, open the console , click the follower you want to customize and write...

setlevel 1000 0 1 100

...without quotes. This will make every actor you've previously recruited as follower, naturally level up with you.

MCM Functions:

- configure all wage related settings
- better follower response can be toggled
- vanilla follower draw weapon behaviour can be toggled
- option to reset all previously configured hotkeys
- configurable interval for widget information, to unburden poor systems
- load/save widget layout (thanks to FISS)
- 7 configurable hotkeys for basic and custom functions
- individually customize all 5 followers and their widgets
- choose and customize combat style, attributes, skills, as well as their classes
- give light food perk to followers

The MCM menu is an awesome tool to customize Mods to your likings. In Follower Mod, it will enable some basic functions, adjust hotkeys and grant you the option to individualize all followers and their Widgets. You're allowed to configure follower carry weight, their speed and diverse other options, as well as reposition and rescale the Widgets and adjust them how you like it. MCM menu will ONLY work if you have both, SKSE and SkyUi installed, otherwise you're stuck with the default settings. Never ask to update the Mod for no SKSE and SkyUI version, isntead I ask you to buy all DLC's, install SKSE and SkyUI, and, if necessary, buy a better computer. Why would anyone even play this game without SKSE and SkyUI nowadays?

Hotkey Functions:

- hotkey to trade with all 5 followers without entering any dialogue or menu
- hotkey to combine wait/follow and command function
- hotkey to summon all followers
- hotkey to tell followers to relax
- hotkey to tell followers to avoid combat
- hotkey to go into follower camera mode
- hotkey to make followers draw weapon with you

Follower Trade Hotkey: Which follower you do trade with depends on how long you press the key. If you tab the key, you do trade with the first follower, if you hold it 1 second, you'll do trade with the second follower, if you hold it 2 seconds, you'll do trade with the third and so on. You will need to be in range of your followers (500 units) to prevent cheating and keep it immersive. If you want to trade with any other then the first follower, don't be irritated that the first followers inventory will be opened first, this is a vanilla flaw I can't fix, and once you lift your finge after > 1 secondm the inventory of the corresponding follower will open.

Follower Wait/Follow Hotkey: You'll tap the hotkey once and the follower waits. You tap it again and the follower follows. This will work for all followers following you, not just one. You'll get a notification when a follower waits or follows you. The corresponding widget will also show your follower in wait stance.

Follower Command Favor Hotkey: Basically this uses the same key as the wait/follow hotkey, but you'll need to hold the key for at least one second and then release it. Upon release of the hotkey the command favor state will be entered by the follower. The longer you press the key, the more followers will be involved in the favor state. So you can make a single follower open a container for you, OR make all followers gangrape a Bandit.

Follower Summon Hotkey: Vanilla Followers navigation is flawed. They can't jump up, climb or move where there's no Navmesh. This often leads to extremely inconvenient situations, hence why this function is imported. Press they key once and all your followers will be warped to you and placed at your feet.

Follower Relax/Unrelax (Sandbox) Hotkey: Works pretty much exactly like the wait/follow hotkey with the difference, that your followers will enter sandbox(relax) mode. Press the key once and your followers relax, press it again and the followers will follow again. You'll get a notification when followers relax or doesn't.

Follower Avoid Combat/Enter Combat Hotkey: Works like relax hotkey. You'll get a notification. Press once for followers to ignore combat, press again to make them attack again.

Follower Camera Hotkey: Has two functions. When taped shortly will jump to your closest follower, when taped again will jump back to you. If you hold the key for more then one second, it will flip back to you after releasing the key.

Follower Draw Weapon Hotkey: This simply makes you and your followers draw weapons. If you draw your weapon with your followers, and then use the default draw weapon key, the feature of followers not automatically drawing weapons with you, will be bypassed. This is not a bug, but intention. You can set it back to default by pressing the follower draw weapon hotkey again. You need to enable the custom draw weapon function inside MCM menu.

Toggle Follower Widgets: a hotkey to toggle Follower Widgets on and off. Simple as that.

Skill Menu Hotkey: hotkey to activate the follower statistic menu, which can also be accessed via dialogue.

Magic Menu Hotkey: hotkey to activate the follower magic menu, which can also be accessed via dialogue.

Widget Functions:

The Widgets are one part that make this Mod uniquely stand out. They come in a unique optical flavor. The Widgets will work with IHud by Gopher. Every follower has its own Widget showing name, health, magicka, stamina, inventory-/carry-weight, level and distance to the player. Widgets can be turned off/on, repositioned and their size and transparency changed inside the MCM menu. Distance will be showen in meters. Additionally there's a Widget for counting the wage you owe to followers. The upper number is the threshold, the lower is the amount of money you owe to them. I should also mention the new menus in version 0.5 showing your followers attribute/skills and the speels they possess, respectively you've taught them.
 

Known Bugs:

- no current bugs...please report any bug in the bug section, not the comments, or you will risk to get blocked, if you stay persistent!
 

Compatibility:

- Compatible with: Interesting NPC's, Immersive Creatures, Follower Commentary Overhaul, Frostfall, Real Needs and Diseases, Convenient Horses, My Home is your Home, Monster Mod, Live another Life, Apocalypse Spells, Thunderchild, Loot&Degradation, Dual Sheath Redux, any body type deriving from CBBE, Enhanced Blood, Immersive Citizens, Immersive Horses, Immersive NPC's in the Dark, NPC Overhaul, Real Wildlife, Revenge of the Enemies, Run for your Lifes, Tame the Beasts of Skyrim II, When Vampires attack, Ultimate Combat, Violenz, Wintermyst and many more you can find over here...Click me Hard!

- Incompatiblities: Ultimate Follower Overhaul, Amazing Follower Tweaks, Extensible Follower Framework, Kuertees Simple Followers, Requiem and any similar general overhaul except my own.

Tell me if you find more incompatibilities.
 

Appendix

Planed Features:

- the only thing that needs further attention is the follower needs feature
- another thing is giving followers perks via menu

Credits and Thanks:

In this case I'll have to thank Bethesda, the Creation Kit Wiki guys and the Official Forum Guys and especially the whole SkyUI-Team, specifically @Schlangster, @psychosteve and @Mardoxx which granted us the gift of cracking the Skyrim UI code open. Thanks to SKSE-Team as well. You guys rock! Inspiration has been drawn from my long time favorit UFO made by Looki, as well as Dragon Age, Dungeons&Dragons and Dark Souls. Also, thanks to @LordConti2 for making his FISS library which files are partly included inside this Mod. Thanks to him we can easily save/load user presets. A huge thanks to @Atardecer for making the Requiem Patch, and finally I need to give gratitude to @Expired6978 for creating UIExtensions and uploading the source on Github...without him I would have never managed to create custom menus.

Enough talk now, lead your followers into battle!

DISCLAIMER:

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
warranty. In no event shall the authors be held liable for any damages
arising from the use of this software.

 

 

 

 

All credits go to Mofakin, the original author of this mod

Follower Mod-60763-0-5-1.7z

 

My fix for "Are you skilled" dialogue with non-followers

FM_FollowerMod.esp

[aljustineg]

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1GSuy39Wu8

 

 

DESCRIPTION

 

Russian Version

 

Latest News

Good day dear friends and fans of good old RPG styled follower themes. Why that notion you ask? Because this grateful update will bring you closer to the experience of pasttime roleplaying games. It screams a big THANK YOU! towards your direction to give gratitude for 1.000 Endorsements...which is a huge amount given I'm not necessarily the most liked Modder. I just recently learned I'm a cancer, that needs to be driven away from the community...I'm probably also a, how'd they spell it on Reddit?...moralfag? Doesn't matter much, because as long as those "insurgents" are acting like Tony Montana on seventeen sacks of cocaine stiring up the masses, I'm proceeding with blocking their buttocks to Oblivion. However, let's not digress...where was I? Oh yes, the update...I think it's best if you just read the changelog, see the new screenshots and maybe take a look at the description...

 

Release 27.09.2015, Version 0.5:

 

- divided the MCM and Widget quest scripts, this should have an overall positive effect on various issues people reported, primarly related to widgets and the MCM...this should also fix combat styles/Classes not correctly baking into save, as well as other values that need to be transported via maintenance code...unfortunately this brings another issue...you need to start from a new game or the widgets will go all crazy!!!

- fixed combat style of third follower greyed out when second follower alias wasn't filled

- followers will now hide their torches when sneaking with player if you tell them via dialogue

- added new dialogue option to make followers stay passive when player moves stealthy

- fixed occasional bug when dismissing a follower, it wasn't counting as dimsissed

- fixed widget still showing last follower when all followers are dismissed

- improved the appearance of all widgets much...see new screenshots, they all have a customized icon theme similar to old RPG's like AD&D

- fixed typos inside AS scripts to create wrong display of status

- fixed anchor MCM option for fourth and fifth follower widget not working correctly

- fixed hotkeys not working for non-vanilla followers...this will also fix non working hotkeys for INPC followers and any custom using the vanilla follower framework

- fixed hotkey trade acting sometimes wonky on first follower

- fixed wait hotkey not working all the time

- fixed all hotkeys potentially acting wonky sometimes

- which follower to command is now dependend on how long you press the command hotkey

- changed dialogue response when owing money to followers to something more appropriate aka they respond more angry

- teaching a spell to a follower is now skill level dependend...if the followers skill level in the particular school of magic then the required minimum for the spell you want to teach, the spell can't be tought

- fixed not being able to redress followers recruited via the "recruit anyone as follower" dialogue function

- added missing followers from DLC's to the list of aliases, so now every single follower is covered 100%

- fixed followers being naked after dismissal and any other occasion...this needs to be varified, as it was a pain in the ass implementing it, and I'm unsure if it works for every occasion, specifically for followers that not have been recruited via the vanilla system

- added MCM toggle option to give followers the light food perk so they won't enable traps

- removed all extras: INPC-patch no longer needed, use the "recruit all" feature instead, requiem patch obsolete due to increasing incompatibility, white widgets obsolete due to widget improvement

- added a tag(FM) behind the "recruit all" dialogue so you know it's the correct dialogue to use from Follower Mod

- fixed all problems related to "recruit all" feature when recruiting via spell...this will effectively fix all problems related to third party follower mods...you can now safely recruit Inigo, Vilja, Hoth and all NPC's from Interesting NPC's...basically you can recruit any humanoid a follower now

- fixed wrong Erik assigned to follower alias section

- been searching my ass off finding a solution to compensate the deprecated .setLevel() function via script. There is no solution other then using the console with the command "setlevel 1000 0 1 100" (without quotes) after clicking the corresponding actor. I've been searching for this in order to create a way to level up followers that do not have the PC Level Mult enabled, which are primarly those followers that are not followers by default...I'm sorry, unless SKSE imports this setlevel command, there's nothing I can do...

- merged follower widget with widget section, and combat style section with follower section to make room for the new MCM follower skill level menus

- added full fledged attribute and skill customization to MCM menu, covering health, stamina, magicka and all of the 18 skills...you can use it without limits to customize, experiementation or cheating...your choice

- renamed Uthgerd the Unbroken to simply Uthgerd, due to annoyances with the widget and new menus to display her name

- added complete customized, hotkey based skill/stats menu for followers, it will inform you about attributes, resistances, combat-skills, stealth-skills and magic skills

- added hotkey based follower magic menu, both menus are derived from UiExtensions by Expired6978

- adapted skill display and spell teaching dialogue option to new menus

- first babysteps to create proper localization .txt file for easy translation...this will be forwarded in future versions

- and before you ask...no, no follower needs feature...I hate it to implement a feature that forces me to permanently micromanage my followers...this is just plain stupid...however, the promised relax feature, forcing you to give followers time to relax, or they will break down and eventually leave your group...this could be made in a fashion that it simulates the needs for food, drinks, sleep and sparetime

 

Requirements

1.Skyrim with the most actual patch and all DLC's (1.9.32.8)

2. Skyrim Script Extender

3. SkyUI

4. UIExtensions(optional)

5. FISS(optional)

 

How to install

 

Installation with NMM:

 

1. Press the download with Manager button on the Nexus and confirm the requested programm, or copy paste the url directly to Nexus Mod Manager

2. Once downloaded open up NMM and click this Mod to import the package.7z

3. After installation don't forget to enable the plugin file(s) in your prefered Mod organization tool

4. Use L.O.O.T to automatically sort your load order

 

Manual Installation:

 

1. Download and unzip the file anywhere

2. Move the .esp and .bsa file(s) (if present) to your 'x:\...Skyrim\Data' folder

3. Choose the patch file(s) (if present) you wish to use and copy to your Data folder

4. After installation don't forget to enable the plugin file(s) in your prefered Mod organization tool

5. Use L.O.O.T to automatically get the correct load order

 

Important Information

If you are using a new version of Follower Mod upon an existing character made with FM, make sure to make a clean save before playing on. How to do this? But remember, adding or removing Mods during serious gameplay is a VERY bad idea, no matter what kind of safety measures you've prepared.

 

1. Load your game and find an interior cell, save the game inside

2. Exit game, turn off the old .esp and load the previously made save, then save again inside

3. Exit game, install new version, turn on the new .esp, then go into the game and save again

4. Exit the game once more and then start playing with the clean save

 

If you happen to have left over script artefacts in your savegames, I recommend using Script Cleaner.

 

Description

You ever wanted a Follower Mod with lots of features, awesome widgets, hotkey controlable and general convenience that other follower mods couldn't give you because of refusing to use SKSE, SkyUI and other third party Mods as resource? Well, then this is exactly the follower mod you've been looking for. It has all the same basic features then all other prominent follower mods, plus it features complete DLC support, a MCM menu, follower widgets, custim skill and follower magic menu, the option to teach spells and powers to followers, setting their combat style and actor class from a range of 12 shemes, setting their carry weight, speed, aggression, confidence, assistance, morality and skills. It also features hotkeys for trading, commanding (including wait/follow), summoning, relaxing, combat avoidance, follower camera, drawing weapons, showing skills and exchange spells/powers. Widgets will show the name, health, magicka, stamina, carry-/inventory-weight, level and distance to the player. All Widgets are completely configurable via MCM and can also be turned off. They come in two color variations, white and the way I wanted them to be. The widget will also show you if your follower is waiting, relaxing or avoiding combat. Everything's summed up in a very convenient fashion and I promise it never felt better before. To round it all up from version 0.3 there's a wage system. Followers will now actually want money from you in order to stay with you. Now for in Detail descriptions:

 

Follower features:

 

- followers want money to stay with you, if you don't pay them, they'll leave

- recruit up to 5 followers

- followers can be interacted with via dialogue and hotkeys

- followers can be customized in MCM menu

- followers can learn spells and powers if their appropriate skill is high enough

- followers can dual wield

- followers no longer use default outfits and can be redressed to your liking, they will keep the clothes after dismisal

- all followers can be married

- all female followers have female animation

- occasional changes to follower outfits to make them less overpowered or look more appropriate

- housecarls will automatically sandbox at your home if not following you

- followers are now completely quest and area aware, this plays very nicely with Follower Commentary Overhaul

- followers wil now react to combat near you

- followers will no longer directly react to combat when the player is sneaking, this plays nicely with Better Stealth AI for Followers

- followers will use various idle animations when relaxing, sandboxing or not following you

- followers can relax, avoid combat and summoned

- follower camera showing the first follower looking at you

- diverse options for drawing weapon behaviour in MCM and via hotkey

- you can essentialize, ask for their skills and ignore friendly hits

- all followers from all DLC's supported as well as custom followers using vanilla follower system

- followers can be set to react faster when bumping into them

- followers will no longer trigger traps

- followers combat style is configurable in MCM menu

- followers actor class is configurable in MCM menu

- a completely customizable combat style for every follower

- option to make anyone a follower via spell or dialogue, this includes every single follower from every custom mod, yes, even Inigo, Vilja and Hoth

- dialogue option to make followers put away their torch when sneaking

- dialogue option for advanced stealth behaviour on followers

- give followers the light food perk via MC, so they will not trigger traps

- make any actor level with you by using the provided .bat file, see description further down

- custom menus to show follower statistics and follower spells/powers

 

The first question you probably ask is, why only 5 followers, couldn't you have done more? Yes, I could have done this. The alias system allows up to hundreds of followers, and the way I rescripted the follower framework it would also be easily implementable. But given the fact that any system can barily handle more then 10 followers at best, and playing with so much followers is extremely inconvenient, I decided against it. It's quality rather then quantity. I also drew inspiration from games like Dragon Age, Dead Souls and old RPG's like Advanced Dungeons & Dragon Series, or Fallout. The maximum number of followers they allowed where somewhere between 4-6. You never got to gather a whole army behind your back. It's no fun either, since all the followers would block any entrance and the world around you. The second question you ask may be about why I'm using hotkeys and widgets. Well, I'm no immersion Nazi, but immersion, imho, can only be broken to a certain degree. I deem popping up message menus that unnecessarily pause the game, or complicated dialogue structures as extremely inconvenient, as well as functions that are only rarely used or never used at all. At the same time I wanted to have a convenient way of information and interaction options with followers, hence why I used widgets and hotkeys. If you think widgets and hotkeys break immersion inside a medieval themed world, you may be right, but I deem it even more unimmersive if I'm constantly forced to enter dialogue or message menus to figure what my followers are about. Communication can be non-verbal. Soldiers in silent battle for example, never use any verbal communication. Why not simply think hotkeys like they were signal of hands?

 

There's also the option to make anyone a follower by using a lesser power or via dialogue. You'll need to enable the feature in MCM. Unfortunately some NPC's are excluded by their voicetypes, and prone to bug out, specially elder people and children. So for now, I don't recommend recruiting them until I squished this bug. I don't want to exclude them per se, but if nothing else works, this is what's going to happen.

 

About the wage system: This deserves a section on its own. The wage system is completely optional and can be toggled inside the MCM. You can set up the gold amount per hour in the MCM. Default is 1 Gold. It will multiply with the follower count. So if you have 2 followers and a loan count of 3, the amount of payment will raise by 6 Gold every hour, summing to a maximum of 144 Gold per 24 hours(1 day). I recommend using 1 Gold though, or you will be broke faster then Lehman Brothers. It will compare to a threshold, which can also be setup in the MCM. Once the payment amount reaches the threshold, your followers will leave your service...ALL of them, not just one. You can then pay the money to any follower you've previously met and again will be able to recruit them. It's probably a good idea to not even let it come this far, I recommend checking dialogue with them at least once a day (depending on your MCM settings) and pay their loan...specially if you use Needs Mods where you need to sleep. The loan can be payed to all followers following you, but is isn't counted individualy, to reflect the how the followers group behind you for money. Future updates will import the need for food, drinks and time to relax. Maybe I can even implement a feature where followers are brawling each other for the money and treasures you give them, but for now I want to test out the wage only, to figure if the system is probarly running, and to squish bugs in the process.

 

 

About using the provided .bat file. Bethesda decided to remove the .setLevel() script function with Skyrim version 1.6, and thus removing any ability to directly customize actor levels via script. There are solutions to "emulate" manually leveling up actors, by raising their attributes/skills, but their actually level never changes. However, you can use a console command to make actors that you recruited as followers, which normally aren't followers, level up with you, just like the vanilla followers do. You can also customize their skills in MCM beforehand. Just download the provided .bat file and place it inside your Skyrim folder (not Data), then go ingame, open the console , click the follower you want to customize and write...

 

setlevel 1000 0 1 100

 

...without quotes. This will make every actor you've previously recruited as follower, naturally level up with you.

 

MCM Functions:

 

- configure all wage related settings

- better follower response can be toggled

- vanilla follower draw weapon behaviour can be toggled

- option to reset all previously configured hotkeys

- configurable interval for widget information, to unburden poor systems

- load/save widget layout (thanks to FISS)

- 7 configurable hotkeys for basic and custom functions

- individually customize all 5 followers and their widgets

- choose and customize combat style, attributes, skills, as well as their classes

- give light food perk to followers

 

The MCM menu is an awesome tool to customize Mods to your likings. In Follower Mod, it will enable some basic functions, adjust hotkeys and grant you the option to individualize all followers and their Widgets. You're allowed to configure follower carry weight, their speed and diverse other options, as well as reposition and rescale the Widgets and adjust them how you like it. MCM menu will ONLY work if you have both, SKSE and SkyUi installed, otherwise you're stuck with the default settings. Never ask to update the Mod for no SKSE and SkyUI version, isntead I ask you to buy all DLC's, install SKSE and SkyUI, and, if necessary, buy a better computer. Why would anyone even play this game without SKSE and SkyUI nowadays?

 

Hotkey Functions:

 

- hotkey to trade with all 5 followers without entering any dialogue or menu

- hotkey to combine wait/follow and command function

- hotkey to summon all followers

- hotkey to tell followers to relax

- hotkey to tell followers to avoid combat

- hotkey to go into follower camera mode

- hotkey to make followers draw weapon with you

 

Follower Trade Hotkey: Which follower you do trade with depends on how long you press the key. If you tab the key, you do trade with the first follower, if you hold it 1 second, you'll do trade with the second follower, if you hold it 2 seconds, you'll do trade with the third and so on. You will need to be in range of your followers (500 units) to prevent cheating and keep it immersive. If you want to trade with any other then the first follower, don't be irritated that the first followers inventory will be opened first, this is a vanilla flaw I can't fix, and once you lift your finge after > 1 secondm the inventory of the corresponding follower will open.

 

Follower Wait/Follow Hotkey: You'll tap the hotkey once and the follower waits. You tap it again and the follower follows. This will work for all followers following you, not just one. You'll get a notification when a follower waits or follows you. The corresponding widget will also show your follower in wait stance.

 

Follower Command Favor Hotkey: Basically this uses the same key as the wait/follow hotkey, but you'll need to hold the key for at least one second and then release it. Upon release of the hotkey the command favor state will be entered by the follower. The longer you press the key, the more followers will be involved in the favor state. So you can make a single follower open a container for you, OR make all followers gangrape a Bandit.

 

Follower Summon Hotkey: Vanilla Followers navigation is flawed. They can't jump up, climb or move where there's no Navmesh. This often leads to extremely inconvenient situations, hence why this function is imported. Press they key once and all your followers will be warped to you and placed at your feet.

 

Follower Relax/Unrelax (Sandbox) Hotkey: Works pretty much exactly like the wait/follow hotkey with the difference, that your followers will enter sandbox(relax) mode. Press the key once and your followers relax, press it again and the followers will follow again. You'll get a notification when followers relax or doesn't.

 

Follower Avoid Combat/Enter Combat Hotkey: Works like relax hotkey. You'll get a notification. Press once for followers to ignore combat, press again to make them attack again.

 

Follower Camera Hotkey: Has two functions. When taped shortly will jump to your closest follower, when taped again will jump back to you. If you hold the key for more then one second, it will flip back to you after releasing the key.

 

Follower Draw Weapon Hotkey: This simply makes you and your followers draw weapons. If you draw your weapon with your followers, and then use the default draw weapon key, the feature of followers not automatically drawing weapons with you, will be bypassed. This is not a bug, but intention. You can set it back to default by pressing the follower draw weapon hotkey again. You need to enable the custom draw weapon function inside MCM menu.

 

Toggle Follower Widgets: a hotkey to toggle Follower Widgets on and off. Simple as that.

 

Skill Menu Hotkey: hotkey to activate the follower statistic menu, which can also be accessed via dialogue.

 

Magic Menu Hotkey: hotkey to activate the follower magic menu, which can also be accessed via dialogue.

 

Widget Functions:

 

The Widgets are one part that make this Mod uniquely stand out. They come in a unique optical flavor. The Widgets will work with IHud by Gopher. Every follower has its own Widget showing name, health, magicka, stamina, inventory-/carry-weight, level and distance to the player. Widgets can be turned off/on, repositioned and their size and transparency changed inside the MCM menu. Distance will be showen in meters. Additionally there's a Widget for counting the wage you owe to followers. The upper number is the threshold, the lower is the amount of money you owe to them. I should also mention the new menus in version 0.5 showing your followers attribute/skills and the speels they possess, respectively you've taught them.

 

Known Bugs:

- no current bugs...please report any bug in the bug section, not the comments, or you will risk to get blocked, if you stay persistent!

 

Compatibility:

- Compatible with: Interesting NPC's, Immersive Creatures, Follower Commentary Overhaul, Frostfall, Real Needs and Diseases, Convenient Horses, My Home is your Home, Monster Mod, Live another Life, Apocalypse Spells, Thunderchild, Loot&Degradation, Dual Sheath Redux, any body type deriving from CBBE, Enhanced Blood, Immersive Citizens, Immersive Horses, Immersive NPC's in the Dark, NPC Overhaul, Real Wildlife, Revenge of the Enemies, Run for your Lifes, Tame the Beasts of Skyrim II, When Vampires attack, Ultimate Combat, Violenz, Wintermyst and many more you can find over here...Click me Hard!

 

- Incompatiblities: Ultimate Follower Overhaul, Amazing Follower Tweaks, Extensible Follower Framework, Kuertees Simple Followers, Requiem and any similar general overhaul except my own.

 

Tell me if you find more incompatibilities.

 

Appendix

Planed Features:

 

- the only thing that needs further attention is the follower needs feature

- another thing is giving followers perks via menu

 

Credits and Thanks:

 

In this case I'll have to thank Bethesda, the Creation Kit Wiki guys and the Official Forum Guys and especially the whole SkyUI-Team, specifically @Schlangster, @psychosteve and @Mardoxx which granted us the gift of cracking the Skyrim UI code open. Thanks to SKSE-Team as well. You guys rock! Inspiration has been drawn from my long time favorit UFO made by Looki, as well as Dragon Age, Dungeons&Dragons and Dark Souls. Also, thanks to @LordConti2 for making his FISS library which files are partly included inside this Mod. Thanks to him we can easily save/load user presets. A huge thanks to @Atardecer for making the Requiem Patch, and finally I need to give gratitude to @Expired6978 for creating UIExtensions and uploading the source on Github...without him I would have never managed to create custom menus.

 

Enough talk now, lead your followers into battle!

 

DISCLAIMER:

 

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied

warranty. In no event shall the authors be held liable for any damages

arising from the use of this software.

 

 

 

 

All credits go to Mofakin, the original author of this mod

Follower Mod-60763-0-5-1.7z

 

My fix for "Are you skilled" dialogue with non-followers

FM_FollowerMod.esp

 

thanks il try this  i hate when i set follower to archer then after i gave him a stonger greatsword he uses it instead of a bow i hope this mod wont do that   

[aljustineg]

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1GSuy39Wu8

 

 

DESCRIPTION

 

Russian Version

 

Latest News

Good day dear friends and fans of good old RPG styled follower themes. Why that notion you ask? Because this grateful update will bring you closer to the experience of pasttime roleplaying games. It screams a big THANK YOU! towards your direction to give gratitude for 1.000 Endorsements...which is a huge amount given I'm not necessarily the most liked Modder. I just recently learned I'm a cancer, that needs to be driven away from the community...I'm probably also a, how'd they spell it on Reddit?...moralfag? Doesn't matter much, because as long as those "insurgents" are acting like Tony Montana on seventeen sacks of cocaine stiring up the masses, I'm proceeding with blocking their buttocks to Oblivion. However, let's not digress...where was I? Oh yes, the update...I think it's best if you just read the changelog, see the new screenshots and maybe take a look at the description...

 

Release 27.09.2015, Version 0.5:

 

- divided the MCM and Widget quest scripts, this should have an overall positive effect on various issues people reported, primarly related to widgets and the MCM...this should also fix combat styles/Classes not correctly baking into save, as well as other values that need to be transported via maintenance code...unfortunately this brings another issue...you need to start from a new game or the widgets will go all crazy!!!

- fixed combat style of third follower greyed out when second follower alias wasn't filled

- followers will now hide their torches when sneaking with player if you tell them via dialogue

- added new dialogue option to make followers stay passive when player moves stealthy

- fixed occasional bug when dismissing a follower, it wasn't counting as dimsissed

- fixed widget still showing last follower when all followers are dismissed

- improved the appearance of all widgets much...see new screenshots, they all have a customized icon theme similar to old RPG's like AD&D

- fixed typos inside AS scripts to create wrong display of status

- fixed anchor MCM option for fourth and fifth follower widget not working correctly

- fixed hotkeys not working for non-vanilla followers...this will also fix non working hotkeys for INPC followers and any custom using the vanilla follower framework

- fixed hotkey trade acting sometimes wonky on first follower

- fixed wait hotkey not working all the time

- fixed all hotkeys potentially acting wonky sometimes

- which follower to command is now dependend on how long you press the command hotkey

- changed dialogue response when owing money to followers to something more appropriate aka they respond more angry

- teaching a spell to a follower is now skill level dependend...if the followers skill level in the particular school of magic then the required minimum for the spell you want to teach, the spell can't be tought

- fixed not being able to redress followers recruited via the "recruit anyone as follower" dialogue function

- added missing followers from DLC's to the list of aliases, so now every single follower is covered 100%

- fixed followers being naked after dismissal and any other occasion...this needs to be varified, as it was a pain in the ass implementing it, and I'm unsure if it works for every occasion, specifically for followers that not have been recruited via the vanilla system

- added MCM toggle option to give followers the light food perk so they won't enable traps

- removed all extras: INPC-patch no longer needed, use the "recruit all" feature instead, requiem patch obsolete due to increasing incompatibility, white widgets obsolete due to widget improvement

- added a tag(FM) behind the "recruit all" dialogue so you know it's the correct dialogue to use from Follower Mod

- fixed all problems related to "recruit all" feature when recruiting via spell...this will effectively fix all problems related to third party follower mods...you can now safely recruit Inigo, Vilja, Hoth and all NPC's from Interesting NPC's...basically you can recruit any humanoid a follower now

- fixed wrong Erik assigned to follower alias section

- been searching my ass off finding a solution to compensate the deprecated .setLevel() function via script. There is no solution other then using the console with the command "setlevel 1000 0 1 100" (without quotes) after clicking the corresponding actor. I've been searching for this in order to create a way to level up followers that do not have the PC Level Mult enabled, which are primarly those followers that are not followers by default...I'm sorry, unless SKSE imports this setlevel command, there's nothing I can do...

- merged follower widget with widget section, and combat style section with follower section to make room for the new MCM follower skill level menus

- added full fledged attribute and skill customization to MCM menu, covering health, stamina, magicka and all of the 18 skills...you can use it without limits to customize, experiementation or cheating...your choice

- renamed Uthgerd the Unbroken to simply Uthgerd, due to annoyances with the widget and new menus to display her name

- added complete customized, hotkey based skill/stats menu for followers, it will inform you about attributes, resistances, combat-skills, stealth-skills and magic skills

- added hotkey based follower magic menu, both menus are derived from UiExtensions by Expired6978

- adapted skill display and spell teaching dialogue option to new menus

- first babysteps to create proper localization .txt file for easy translation...this will be forwarded in future versions

- and before you ask...no, no follower needs feature...I hate it to implement a feature that forces me to permanently micromanage my followers...this is just plain stupid...however, the promised relax feature, forcing you to give followers time to relax, or they will break down and eventually leave your group...this could be made in a fashion that it simulates the needs for food, drinks, sleep and sparetime

 

Requirements

1.Skyrim with the most actual patch and all DLC's (1.9.32.8)

2. Skyrim Script Extender

3. SkyUI

4. UIExtensions(optional)

5. FISS(optional)

 

How to install

 

Installation with NMM:

 

1. Press the download with Manager button on the Nexus and confirm the requested programm, or copy paste the url directly to Nexus Mod Manager

2. Once downloaded open up NMM and click this Mod to import the package.7z

3. After installation don't forget to enable the plugin file(s) in your prefered Mod organization tool

4. Use L.O.O.T to automatically sort your load order

 

Manual Installation:

 

1. Download and unzip the file anywhere

2. Move the .esp and .bsa file(s) (if present) to your 'x:\...Skyrim\Data' folder

3. Choose the patch file(s) (if present) you wish to use and copy to your Data folder

4. After installation don't forget to enable the plugin file(s) in your prefered Mod organization tool

5. Use L.O.O.T to automatically get the correct load order

 

Important Information

If you are using a new version of Follower Mod upon an existing character made with FM, make sure to make a clean save before playing on. How to do this? But remember, adding or removing Mods during serious gameplay is a VERY bad idea, no matter what kind of safety measures you've prepared.

 

1. Load your game and find an interior cell, save the game inside

2. Exit game, turn off the old .esp and load the previously made save, then save again inside

3. Exit game, install new version, turn on the new .esp, then go into the game and save again

4. Exit the game once more and then start playing with the clean save

 

If you happen to have left over script artefacts in your savegames, I recommend using Script Cleaner.

 

Description

You ever wanted a Follower Mod with lots of features, awesome widgets, hotkey controlable and general convenience that other follower mods couldn't give you because of refusing to use SKSE, SkyUI and other third party Mods as resource? Well, then this is exactly the follower mod you've been looking for. It has all the same basic features then all other prominent follower mods, plus it features complete DLC support, a MCM menu, follower widgets, custim skill and follower magic menu, the option to teach spells and powers to followers, setting their combat style and actor class from a range of 12 shemes, setting their carry weight, speed, aggression, confidence, assistance, morality and skills. It also features hotkeys for trading, commanding (including wait/follow), summoning, relaxing, combat avoidance, follower camera, drawing weapons, showing skills and exchange spells/powers. Widgets will show the name, health, magicka, stamina, carry-/inventory-weight, level and distance to the player. All Widgets are completely configurable via MCM and can also be turned off. They come in two color variations, white and the way I wanted them to be. The widget will also show you if your follower is waiting, relaxing or avoiding combat. Everything's summed up in a very convenient fashion and I promise it never felt better before. To round it all up from version 0.3 there's a wage system. Followers will now actually want money from you in order to stay with you. Now for in Detail descriptions:

 

Follower features:

 

- followers want money to stay with you, if you don't pay them, they'll leave

- recruit up to 5 followers

- followers can be interacted with via dialogue and hotkeys

- followers can be customized in MCM menu

- followers can learn spells and powers if their appropriate skill is high enough

- followers can dual wield

- followers no longer use default outfits and can be redressed to your liking, they will keep the clothes after dismisal

- all followers can be married

- all female followers have female animation

- occasional changes to follower outfits to make them less overpowered or look more appropriate

- housecarls will automatically sandbox at your home if not following you

- followers are now completely quest and area aware, this plays very nicely with Follower Commentary Overhaul

- followers wil now react to combat near you

- followers will no longer directly react to combat when the player is sneaking, this plays nicely with Better Stealth AI for Followers

- followers will use various idle animations when relaxing, sandboxing or not following you

- followers can relax, avoid combat and summoned

- follower camera showing the first follower looking at you

- diverse options for drawing weapon behaviour in MCM and via hotkey

- you can essentialize, ask for their skills and ignore friendly hits

- all followers from all DLC's supported as well as custom followers using vanilla follower system

- followers can be set to react faster when bumping into them

- followers will no longer trigger traps

- followers combat style is configurable in MCM menu

- followers actor class is configurable in MCM menu

- a completely customizable combat style for every follower

- option to make anyone a follower via spell or dialogue, this includes every single follower from every custom mod, yes, even Inigo, Vilja and Hoth

- dialogue option to make followers put away their torch when sneaking

- dialogue option for advanced stealth behaviour on followers

- give followers the light food perk via MC, so they will not trigger traps

- make any actor level with you by using the provided .bat file, see description further down

- custom menus to show follower statistics and follower spells/powers

 

The first question you probably ask is, why only 5 followers, couldn't you have done more? Yes, I could have done this. The alias system allows up to hundreds of followers, and the way I rescripted the follower framework it would also be easily implementable. But given the fact that any system can barily handle more then 10 followers at best, and playing with so much followers is extremely inconvenient, I decided against it. It's quality rather then quantity. I also drew inspiration from games like Dragon Age, Dead Souls and old RPG's like Advanced Dungeons & Dragon Series, or Fallout. The maximum number of followers they allowed where somewhere between 4-6. You never got to gather a whole army behind your back. It's no fun either, since all the followers would block any entrance and the world around you. The second question you ask may be about why I'm using hotkeys and widgets. Well, I'm no immersion Nazi, but immersion, imho, can only be broken to a certain degree. I deem popping up message menus that unnecessarily pause the game, or complicated dialogue structures as extremely inconvenient, as well as functions that are only rarely used or never used at all. At the same time I wanted to have a convenient way of information and interaction options with followers, hence why I used widgets and hotkeys. If you think widgets and hotkeys break immersion inside a medieval themed world, you may be right, but I deem it even more unimmersive if I'm constantly forced to enter dialogue or message menus to figure what my followers are about. Communication can be non-verbal. Soldiers in silent battle for example, never use any verbal communication. Why not simply think hotkeys like they were signal of hands?

 

There's also the option to make anyone a follower by using a lesser power or via dialogue. You'll need to enable the feature in MCM. Unfortunately some NPC's are excluded by their voicetypes, and prone to bug out, specially elder people and children. So for now, I don't recommend recruiting them until I squished this bug. I don't want to exclude them per se, but if nothing else works, this is what's going to happen.

 

About the wage system: This deserves a section on its own. The wage system is completely optional and can be toggled inside the MCM. You can set up the gold amount per hour in the MCM. Default is 1 Gold. It will multiply with the follower count. So if you have 2 followers and a loan count of 3, the amount of payment will raise by 6 Gold every hour, summing to a maximum of 144 Gold per 24 hours(1 day). I recommend using 1 Gold though, or you will be broke faster then Lehman Brothers. It will compare to a threshold, which can also be setup in the MCM. Once the payment amount reaches the threshold, your followers will leave your service...ALL of them, not just one. You can then pay the money to any follower you've previously met and again will be able to recruit them. It's probably a good idea to not even let it come this far, I recommend checking dialogue with them at least once a day (depending on your MCM settings) and pay their loan...specially if you use Needs Mods where you need to sleep. The loan can be payed to all followers following you, but is isn't counted individualy, to reflect the how the followers group behind you for money. Future updates will import the need for food, drinks and time to relax. Maybe I can even implement a feature where followers are brawling each other for the money and treasures you give them, but for now I want to test out the wage only, to figure if the system is probarly running, and to squish bugs in the process.

 

 

About using the provided .bat file. Bethesda decided to remove the .setLevel() script function with Skyrim version 1.6, and thus removing any ability to directly customize actor levels via script. There are solutions to "emulate" manually leveling up actors, by raising their attributes/skills, but their actually level never changes. However, you can use a console command to make actors that you recruited as followers, which normally aren't followers, level up with you, just like the vanilla followers do. You can also customize their skills in MCM beforehand. Just download the provided .bat file and place it inside your Skyrim folder (not Data), then go ingame, open the console , click the follower you want to customize and write...

 

setlevel 1000 0 1 100

 

...without quotes. This will make every actor you've previously recruited as follower, naturally level up with you.

 

MCM Functions:

 

- configure all wage related settings

- better follower response can be toggled

- vanilla follower draw weapon behaviour can be toggled

- option to reset all previously configured hotkeys

- configurable interval for widget information, to unburden poor systems

- load/save widget layout (thanks to FISS)

- 7 configurable hotkeys for basic and custom functions

- individually customize all 5 followers and their widgets

- choose and customize combat style, attributes, skills, as well as their classes

- give light food perk to followers

 

The MCM menu is an awesome tool to customize Mods to your likings. In Follower Mod, it will enable some basic functions, adjust hotkeys and grant you the option to individualize all followers and their Widgets. You're allowed to configure follower carry weight, their speed and diverse other options, as well as reposition and rescale the Widgets and adjust them how you like it. MCM menu will ONLY work if you have both, SKSE and SkyUi installed, otherwise you're stuck with the default settings. Never ask to update the Mod for no SKSE and SkyUI version, isntead I ask you to buy all DLC's, install SKSE and SkyUI, and, if necessary, buy a better computer. Why would anyone even play this game without SKSE and SkyUI nowadays?

 

Hotkey Functions:

 

- hotkey to trade with all 5 followers without entering any dialogue or menu

- hotkey to combine wait/follow and command function

- hotkey to summon all followers

- hotkey to tell followers to relax

- hotkey to tell followers to avoid combat

- hotkey to go into follower camera mode

- hotkey to make followers draw weapon with you

 

Follower Trade Hotkey: Which follower you do trade with depends on how long you press the key. If you tab the key, you do trade with the first follower, if you hold it 1 second, you'll do trade with the second follower, if you hold it 2 seconds, you'll do trade with the third and so on. You will need to be in range of your followers (500 units) to prevent cheating and keep it immersive. If you want to trade with any other then the first follower, don't be irritated that the first followers inventory will be opened first, this is a vanilla flaw I can't fix, and once you lift your finge after > 1 secondm the inventory of the corresponding follower will open.

 

Follower Wait/Follow Hotkey: You'll tap the hotkey once and the follower waits. You tap it again and the follower follows. This will work for all followers following you, not just one. You'll get a notification when a follower waits or follows you. The corresponding widget will also show your follower in wait stance.

 

Follower Command Favor Hotkey: Basically this uses the same key as the wait/follow hotkey, but you'll need to hold the key for at least one second and then release it. Upon release of the hotkey the command favor state will be entered by the follower. The longer you press the key, the more followers will be involved in the favor state. So you can make a single follower open a container for you, OR make all followers gangrape a Bandit.

 

Follower Summon Hotkey: Vanilla Followers navigation is flawed. They can't jump up, climb or move where there's no Navmesh. This often leads to extremely inconvenient situations, hence why this function is imported. Press they key once and all your followers will be warped to you and placed at your feet.

 

Follower Relax/Unrelax (Sandbox) Hotkey: Works pretty much exactly like the wait/follow hotkey with the difference, that your followers will enter sandbox(relax) mode. Press the key once and your followers relax, press it again and the followers will follow again. You'll get a notification when followers relax or doesn't.

 

Follower Avoid Combat/Enter Combat Hotkey: Works like relax hotkey. You'll get a notification. Press once for followers to ignore combat, press again to make them attack again.

 

Follower Camera Hotkey: Has two functions. When taped shortly will jump to your closest follower, when taped again will jump back to you. If you hold the key for more then one second, it will flip back to you after releasing the key.

 

Follower Draw Weapon Hotkey: This simply makes you and your followers draw weapons. If you draw your weapon with your followers, and then use the default draw weapon key, the feature of followers not automatically drawing weapons with you, will be bypassed. This is not a bug, but intention. You can set it back to default by pressing the follower draw weapon hotkey again. You need to enable the custom draw weapon function inside MCM menu.

 

Toggle Follower Widgets: a hotkey to toggle Follower Widgets on and off. Simple as that.

 

Skill Menu Hotkey: hotkey to activate the follower statistic menu, which can also be accessed via dialogue.

 

Magic Menu Hotkey: hotkey to activate the follower magic menu, which can also be accessed via dialogue.

 

Widget Functions:

 

The Widgets are one part that make this Mod uniquely stand out. They come in a unique optical flavor. The Widgets will work with IHud by Gopher. Every follower has its own Widget showing name, health, magicka, stamina, inventory-/carry-weight, level and distance to the player. Widgets can be turned off/on, repositioned and their size and transparency changed inside the MCM menu. Distance will be showen in meters. Additionally there's a Widget for counting the wage you owe to followers. The upper number is the threshold, the lower is the amount of money you owe to them. I should also mention the new menus in version 0.5 showing your followers attribute/skills and the speels they possess, respectively you've taught them.

 

Known Bugs:

- no current bugs...please report any bug in the bug section, not the comments, or you will risk to get blocked, if you stay persistent!

 

Compatibility:

- Compatible with: Interesting NPC's, Immersive Creatures, Follower Commentary Overhaul, Frostfall, Real Needs and Diseases, Convenient Horses, My Home is your Home, Monster Mod, Live another Life, Apocalypse Spells, Thunderchild, Loot&Degradation, Dual Sheath Redux, any body type deriving from CBBE, Enhanced Blood, Immersive Citizens, Immersive Horses, Immersive NPC's in the Dark, NPC Overhaul, Real Wildlife, Revenge of the Enemies, Run for your Lifes, Tame the Beasts of Skyrim II, When Vampires attack, Ultimate Combat, Violenz, Wintermyst and many more you can find over here...Click me Hard!

 

- Incompatiblities: Ultimate Follower Overhaul, Amazing Follower Tweaks, Extensible Follower Framework, Kuertees Simple Followers, Requiem and any similar general overhaul except my own.

 

Tell me if you find more incompatibilities.

 

Appendix

Planed Features:

 

- the only thing that needs further attention is the follower needs feature

- another thing is giving followers perks via menu

 

Credits and Thanks:

 

In this case I'll have to thank Bethesda, the Creation Kit Wiki guys and the Official Forum Guys and especially the whole SkyUI-Team, specifically @Schlangster, @psychosteve and @Mardoxx which granted us the gift of cracking the Skyrim UI code open. Thanks to SKSE-Team as well. You guys rock! Inspiration has been drawn from my long time favorit UFO made by Looki, as well as Dragon Age, Dungeons&Dragons and Dark Souls. Also, thanks to @LordConti2 for making his FISS library which files are partly included inside this Mod. Thanks to him we can easily save/load user presets. A huge thanks to @Atardecer for making the Requiem Patch, and finally I need to give gratitude to @Expired6978 for creating UIExtensions and uploading the source on Github...without him I would have never managed to create custom menus.

 

Enough talk now, lead your followers into battle!

 

DISCLAIMER:

 

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied

warranty. In no event shall the authors be held liable for any damages

arising from the use of this software.

 

 

 

 

All credits go to Mofakin, the original author of this mod

Follower Mod-60763-0-5-1.7z

 

My fix for "Are you skilled" dialogue with non-followers

FM_FollowerMod.esp

 

I did test it i did like it the UI and how can you assign each of your follower on what will be there role but there`s a problem i think the mods changes the face of the followers 

[MoonSpot]

UFO will allow you to change the outfits of all your followers.  AFT has a limit of 35 (or so) NPC that can be controlled.  So if your objective largely to change the gear of followers AFT is a bad choice as it will consume one of the 35 slots to dress someone up.  Also if you reset your 35 slots I think the gear you gave previous followers disappears.

 

I've not tried EFF as of yet, and am going back to UFO myself.

[Ko1bosa]

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1GSuy39Wu8

 

 

DESCRIPTION

 

Russian Version

 

Latest News

Good day dear friends and fans of good old RPG styled follower themes. Why that notion you ask? Because this grateful update will bring you closer to the experience of pasttime roleplaying games. It screams a big THANK YOU! towards your direction to give gratitude for 1.000 Endorsements...which is a huge amount given I'm not necessarily the most liked Modder. I just recently learned I'm a cancer, that needs to be driven away from the community...I'm probably also a, how'd they spell it on Reddit?...moralfag? Doesn't matter much, because as long as those "insurgents" are acting like Tony Montana on seventeen sacks of cocaine stiring up the masses, I'm proceeding with blocking their buttocks to Oblivion. However, let's not digress...where was I? Oh yes, the update...I think it's best if you just read the changelog, see the new screenshots and maybe take a look at the description...

 

Release 27.09.2015, Version 0.5:

 

- divided the MCM and Widget quest scripts, this should have an overall positive effect on various issues people reported, primarly related to widgets and the MCM...this should also fix combat styles/Classes not correctly baking into save, as well as other values that need to be transported via maintenance code...unfortunately this brings another issue...you need to start from a new game or the widgets will go all crazy!!!

- fixed combat style of third follower greyed out when second follower alias wasn't filled

- followers will now hide their torches when sneaking with player if you tell them via dialogue

- added new dialogue option to make followers stay passive when player moves stealthy

- fixed occasional bug when dismissing a follower, it wasn't counting as dimsissed

- fixed widget still showing last follower when all followers are dismissed

- improved the appearance of all widgets much...see new screenshots, they all have a customized icon theme similar to old RPG's like AD&D

- fixed typos inside AS scripts to create wrong display of status

- fixed anchor MCM option for fourth and fifth follower widget not working correctly

- fixed hotkeys not working for non-vanilla followers...this will also fix non working hotkeys for INPC followers and any custom using the vanilla follower framework

- fixed hotkey trade acting sometimes wonky on first follower

- fixed wait hotkey not working all the time

- fixed all hotkeys potentially acting wonky sometimes

- which follower to command is now dependend on how long you press the command hotkey

- changed dialogue response when owing money to followers to something more appropriate aka they respond more angry

- teaching a spell to a follower is now skill level dependend...if the followers skill level in the particular school of magic then the required minimum for the spell you want to teach, the spell can't be tought

- fixed not being able to redress followers recruited via the "recruit anyone as follower" dialogue function

- added missing followers from DLC's to the list of aliases, so now every single follower is covered 100%

- fixed followers being naked after dismissal and any other occasion...this needs to be varified, as it was a pain in the ass implementing it, and I'm unsure if it works for every occasion, specifically for followers that not have been recruited via the vanilla system

- added MCM toggle option to give followers the light food perk so they won't enable traps

- removed all extras: INPC-patch no longer needed, use the "recruit all" feature instead, requiem patch obsolete due to increasing incompatibility, white widgets obsolete due to widget improvement

- added a tag(FM) behind the "recruit all" dialogue so you know it's the correct dialogue to use from Follower Mod

- fixed all problems related to "recruit all" feature when recruiting via spell...this will effectively fix all problems related to third party follower mods...you can now safely recruit Inigo, Vilja, Hoth and all NPC's from Interesting NPC's...basically you can recruit any humanoid a follower now

- fixed wrong Erik assigned to follower alias section

- been searching my ass off finding a solution to compensate the deprecated .setLevel() function via script. There is no solution other then using the console with the command "setlevel 1000 0 1 100" (without quotes) after clicking the corresponding actor. I've been searching for this in order to create a way to level up followers that do not have the PC Level Mult enabled, which are primarly those followers that are not followers by default...I'm sorry, unless SKSE imports this setlevel command, there's nothing I can do...

- merged follower widget with widget section, and combat style section with follower section to make room for the new MCM follower skill level menus

- added full fledged attribute and skill customization to MCM menu, covering health, stamina, magicka and all of the 18 skills...you can use it without limits to customize, experiementation or cheating...your choice

- renamed Uthgerd the Unbroken to simply Uthgerd, due to annoyances with the widget and new menus to display her name

- added complete customized, hotkey based skill/stats menu for followers, it will inform you about attributes, resistances, combat-skills, stealth-skills and magic skills

- added hotkey based follower magic menu, both menus are derived from UiExtensions by Expired6978

- adapted skill display and spell teaching dialogue option to new menus

- first babysteps to create proper localization .txt file for easy translation...this will be forwarded in future versions

- and before you ask...no, no follower needs feature...I hate it to implement a feature that forces me to permanently micromanage my followers...this is just plain stupid...however, the promised relax feature, forcing you to give followers time to relax, or they will break down and eventually leave your group...this could be made in a fashion that it simulates the needs for food, drinks, sleep and sparetime

 

Requirements

1.Skyrim with the most actual patch and all DLC's (1.9.32.8)

2. Skyrim Script Extender

3. SkyUI

4. UIExtensions(optional)

5. FISS(optional)

 

How to install

 

Installation with NMM:

 

1. Press the download with Manager button on the Nexus and confirm the requested programm, or copy paste the url directly to Nexus Mod Manager

2. Once downloaded open up NMM and click this Mod to import the package.7z

3. After installation don't forget to enable the plugin file(s) in your prefered Mod organization tool

4. Use L.O.O.T to automatically sort your load order

 

Manual Installation:

 

1. Download and unzip the file anywhere

2. Move the .esp and .bsa file(s) (if present) to your 'x:\...Skyrim\Data' folder

3. Choose the patch file(s) (if present) you wish to use and copy to your Data folder

4. After installation don't forget to enable the plugin file(s) in your prefered Mod organization tool

5. Use L.O.O.T to automatically get the correct load order

 

Important Information

If you are using a new version of Follower Mod upon an existing character made with FM, make sure to make a clean save before playing on. How to do this? But remember, adding or removing Mods during serious gameplay is a VERY bad idea, no matter what kind of safety measures you've prepared.

 

1. Load your game and find an interior cell, save the game inside

2. Exit game, turn off the old .esp and load the previously made save, then save again inside

3. Exit game, install new version, turn on the new .esp, then go into the game and save again

4. Exit the game once more and then start playing with the clean save

 

If you happen to have left over script artefacts in your savegames, I recommend using Script Cleaner.

 

Description

You ever wanted a Follower Mod with lots of features, awesome widgets, hotkey controlable and general convenience that other follower mods couldn't give you because of refusing to use SKSE, SkyUI and other third party Mods as resource? Well, then this is exactly the follower mod you've been looking for. It has all the same basic features then all other prominent follower mods, plus it features complete DLC support, a MCM menu, follower widgets, custim skill and follower magic menu, the option to teach spells and powers to followers, setting their combat style and actor class from a range of 12 shemes, setting their carry weight, speed, aggression, confidence, assistance, morality and skills. It also features hotkeys for trading, commanding (including wait/follow), summoning, relaxing, combat avoidance, follower camera, drawing weapons, showing skills and exchange spells/powers. Widgets will show the name, health, magicka, stamina, carry-/inventory-weight, level and distance to the player. All Widgets are completely configurable via MCM and can also be turned off. They come in two color variations, white and the way I wanted them to be. The widget will also show you if your follower is waiting, relaxing or avoiding combat. Everything's summed up in a very convenient fashion and I promise it never felt better before. To round it all up from version 0.3 there's a wage system. Followers will now actually want money from you in order to stay with you. Now for in Detail descriptions:

 

Follower features:

 

- followers want money to stay with you, if you don't pay them, they'll leave

- recruit up to 5 followers

- followers can be interacted with via dialogue and hotkeys

- followers can be customized in MCM menu

- followers can learn spells and powers if their appropriate skill is high enough

- followers can dual wield

- followers no longer use default outfits and can be redressed to your liking, they will keep the clothes after dismisal

- all followers can be married

- all female followers have female animation

- occasional changes to follower outfits to make them less overpowered or look more appropriate

- housecarls will automatically sandbox at your home if not following you

- followers are now completely quest and area aware, this plays very nicely with Follower Commentary Overhaul

- followers wil now react to combat near you

- followers will no longer directly react to combat when the player is sneaking, this plays nicely with Better Stealth AI for Followers

- followers will use various idle animations when relaxing, sandboxing or not following you

- followers can relax, avoid combat and summoned

- follower camera showing the first follower looking at you

- diverse options for drawing weapon behaviour in MCM and via hotkey

- you can essentialize, ask for their skills and ignore friendly hits

- all followers from all DLC's supported as well as custom followers using vanilla follower system

- followers can be set to react faster when bumping into them

- followers will no longer trigger traps

- followers combat style is configurable in MCM menu

- followers actor class is configurable in MCM menu

- a completely customizable combat style for every follower

- option to make anyone a follower via spell or dialogue, this includes every single follower from every custom mod, yes, even Inigo, Vilja and Hoth

- dialogue option to make followers put away their torch when sneaking

- dialogue option for advanced stealth behaviour on followers

- give followers the light food perk via MC, so they will not trigger traps

- make any actor level with you by using the provided .bat file, see description further down

- custom menus to show follower statistics and follower spells/powers

 

The first question you probably ask is, why only 5 followers, couldn't you have done more? Yes, I could have done this. The alias system allows up to hundreds of followers, and the way I rescripted the follower framework it would also be easily implementable. But given the fact that any system can barily handle more then 10 followers at best, and playing with so much followers is extremely inconvenient, I decided against it. It's quality rather then quantity. I also drew inspiration from games like Dragon Age, Dead Souls and old RPG's like Advanced Dungeons & Dragon Series, or Fallout. The maximum number of followers they allowed where somewhere between 4-6. You never got to gather a whole army behind your back. It's no fun either, since all the followers would block any entrance and the world around you. The second question you ask may be about why I'm using hotkeys and widgets. Well, I'm no immersion Nazi, but immersion, imho, can only be broken to a certain degree. I deem popping up message menus that unnecessarily pause the game, or complicated dialogue structures as extremely inconvenient, as well as functions that are only rarely used or never used at all. At the same time I wanted to have a convenient way of information and interaction options with followers, hence why I used widgets and hotkeys. If you think widgets and hotkeys break immersion inside a medieval themed world, you may be right, but I deem it even more unimmersive if I'm constantly forced to enter dialogue or message menus to figure what my followers are about. Communication can be non-verbal. Soldiers in silent battle for example, never use any verbal communication. Why not simply think hotkeys like they were signal of hands?

 

There's also the option to make anyone a follower by using a lesser power or via dialogue. You'll need to enable the feature in MCM. Unfortunately some NPC's are excluded by their voicetypes, and prone to bug out, specially elder people and children. So for now, I don't recommend recruiting them until I squished this bug. I don't want to exclude them per se, but if nothing else works, this is what's going to happen.

 

About the wage system: This deserves a section on its own. The wage system is completely optional and can be toggled inside the MCM. You can set up the gold amount per hour in the MCM. Default is 1 Gold. It will multiply with the follower count. So if you have 2 followers and a loan count of 3, the amount of payment will raise by 6 Gold every hour, summing to a maximum of 144 Gold per 24 hours(1 day). I recommend using 1 Gold though, or you will be broke faster then Lehman Brothers. It will compare to a threshold, which can also be setup in the MCM. Once the payment amount reaches the threshold, your followers will leave your service...ALL of them, not just one. You can then pay the money to any follower you've previously met and again will be able to recruit them. It's probably a good idea to not even let it come this far, I recommend checking dialogue with them at least once a day (depending on your MCM settings) and pay their loan...specially if you use Needs Mods where you need to sleep. The loan can be payed to all followers following you, but is isn't counted individualy, to reflect the how the followers group behind you for money. Future updates will import the need for food, drinks and time to relax. Maybe I can even implement a feature where followers are brawling each other for the money and treasures you give them, but for now I want to test out the wage only, to figure if the system is probarly running, and to squish bugs in the process.

 

 

About using the provided .bat file. Bethesda decided to remove the .setLevel() script function with Skyrim version 1.6, and thus removing any ability to directly customize actor levels via script. There are solutions to "emulate" manually leveling up actors, by raising their attributes/skills, but their actually level never changes. However, you can use a console command to make actors that you recruited as followers, which normally aren't followers, level up with you, just like the vanilla followers do. You can also customize their skills in MCM beforehand. Just download the provided .bat file and place it inside your Skyrim folder (not Data), then go ingame, open the console , click the follower you want to customize and write...

 

setlevel 1000 0 1 100

 

...without quotes. This will make every actor you've previously recruited as follower, naturally level up with you.

 

MCM Functions:

 

- configure all wage related settings

- better follower response can be toggled

- vanilla follower draw weapon behaviour can be toggled

- option to reset all previously configured hotkeys

- configurable interval for widget information, to unburden poor systems

- load/save widget layout (thanks to FISS)

- 7 configurable hotkeys for basic and custom functions

- individually customize all 5 followers and their widgets

- choose and customize combat style, attributes, skills, as well as their classes

- give light food perk to followers

 

The MCM menu is an awesome tool to customize Mods to your likings. In Follower Mod, it will enable some basic functions, adjust hotkeys and grant you the option to individualize all followers and their Widgets. You're allowed to configure follower carry weight, their speed and diverse other options, as well as reposition and rescale the Widgets and adjust them how you like it. MCM menu will ONLY work if you have both, SKSE and SkyUi installed, otherwise you're stuck with the default settings. Never ask to update the Mod for no SKSE and SkyUI version, isntead I ask you to buy all DLC's, install SKSE and SkyUI, and, if necessary, buy a better computer. Why would anyone even play this game without SKSE and SkyUI nowadays?

 

Hotkey Functions:

 

- hotkey to trade with all 5 followers without entering any dialogue or menu

- hotkey to combine wait/follow and command function

- hotkey to summon all followers

- hotkey to tell followers to relax

- hotkey to tell followers to avoid combat

- hotkey to go into follower camera mode

- hotkey to make followers draw weapon with you

 

Follower Trade Hotkey: Which follower you do trade with depends on how long you press the key. If you tab the key, you do trade with the first follower, if you hold it 1 second, you'll do trade with the second follower, if you hold it 2 seconds, you'll do trade with the third and so on. You will need to be in range of your followers (500 units) to prevent cheating and keep it immersive. If you want to trade with any other then the first follower, don't be irritated that the first followers inventory will be opened first, this is a vanilla flaw I can't fix, and once you lift your finge after > 1 secondm the inventory of the corresponding follower will open.

 

Follower Wait/Follow Hotkey: You'll tap the hotkey once and the follower waits. You tap it again and the follower follows. This will work for all followers following you, not just one. You'll get a notification when a follower waits or follows you. The corresponding widget will also show your follower in wait stance.

 

Follower Command Favor Hotkey: Basically this uses the same key as the wait/follow hotkey, but you'll need to hold the key for at least one second and then release it. Upon release of the hotkey the command favor state will be entered by the follower. The longer you press the key, the more followers will be involved in the favor state. So you can make a single follower open a container for you, OR make all followers gangrape a Bandit.

 

Follower Summon Hotkey: Vanilla Followers navigation is flawed. They can't jump up, climb or move where there's no Navmesh. This often leads to extremely inconvenient situations, hence why this function is imported. Press they key once and all your followers will be warped to you and placed at your feet.

 

Follower Relax/Unrelax (Sandbox) Hotkey: Works pretty much exactly like the wait/follow hotkey with the difference, that your followers will enter sandbox(relax) mode. Press the key once and your followers relax, press it again and the followers will follow again. You'll get a notification when followers relax or doesn't.

 

Follower Avoid Combat/Enter Combat Hotkey: Works like relax hotkey. You'll get a notification. Press once for followers to ignore combat, press again to make them attack again.

 

Follower Camera Hotkey: Has two functions. When taped shortly will jump to your closest follower, when taped again will jump back to you. If you hold the key for more then one second, it will flip back to you after releasing the key.

 

Follower Draw Weapon Hotkey: This simply makes you and your followers draw weapons. If you draw your weapon with your followers, and then use the default draw weapon key, the feature of followers not automatically drawing weapons with you, will be bypassed. This is not a bug, but intention. You can set it back to default by pressing the follower draw weapon hotkey again. You need to enable the custom draw weapon function inside MCM menu.

 

Toggle Follower Widgets: a hotkey to toggle Follower Widgets on and off. Simple as that.

 

Skill Menu Hotkey: hotkey to activate the follower statistic menu, which can also be accessed via dialogue.

 

Magic Menu Hotkey: hotkey to activate the follower magic menu, which can also be accessed via dialogue.

 

Widget Functions:

 

The Widgets are one part that make this Mod uniquely stand out. They come in a unique optical flavor. The Widgets will work with IHud by Gopher. Every follower has its own Widget showing name, health, magicka, stamina, inventory-/carry-weight, level and distance to the player. Widgets can be turned off/on, repositioned and their size and transparency changed inside the MCM menu. Distance will be showen in meters. Additionally there's a Widget for counting the wage you owe to followers. The upper number is the threshold, the lower is the amount of money you owe to them. I should also mention the new menus in version 0.5 showing your followers attribute/skills and the speels they possess, respectively you've taught them.

 

Known Bugs:

- no current bugs...please report any bug in the bug section, not the comments, or you will risk to get blocked, if you stay persistent!

 

Compatibility:

- Compatible with: Interesting NPC's, Immersive Creatures, Follower Commentary Overhaul, Frostfall, Real Needs and Diseases, Convenient Horses, My Home is your Home, Monster Mod, Live another Life, Apocalypse Spells, Thunderchild, Loot&Degradation, Dual Sheath Redux, any body type deriving from CBBE, Enhanced Blood, Immersive Citizens, Immersive Horses, Immersive NPC's in the Dark, NPC Overhaul, Real Wildlife, Revenge of the Enemies, Run for your Lifes, Tame the Beasts of Skyrim II, When Vampires attack, Ultimate Combat, Violenz, Wintermyst and many more you can find over here...Click me Hard!

 

- Incompatiblities: Ultimate Follower Overhaul, Amazing Follower Tweaks, Extensible Follower Framework, Kuertees Simple Followers, Requiem and any similar general overhaul except my own.

 

Tell me if you find more incompatibilities.

 

Appendix

Planed Features:

 

- the only thing that needs further attention is the follower needs feature

- another thing is giving followers perks via menu

 

Credits and Thanks:

 

In this case I'll have to thank Bethesda, the Creation Kit Wiki guys and the Official Forum Guys and especially the whole SkyUI-Team, specifically @Schlangster, @psychosteve and @Mardoxx which granted us the gift of cracking the Skyrim UI code open. Thanks to SKSE-Team as well. You guys rock! Inspiration has been drawn from my long time favorit UFO made by Looki, as well as Dragon Age, Dungeons&Dragons and Dark Souls. Also, thanks to @LordConti2 for making his FISS library which files are partly included inside this Mod. Thanks to him we can easily save/load user presets. A huge thanks to @Atardecer for making the Requiem Patch, and finally I need to give gratitude to @Expired6978 for creating UIExtensions and uploading the source on Github...without him I would have never managed to create custom menus.

 

Enough talk now, lead your followers into battle!

 

DISCLAIMER:

 

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied

warranty. In no event shall the authors be held liable for any damages

arising from the use of this software.

 

 

 

 

All credits go to Mofakin, the original author of this mod

Follower Mod-60763-0-5-1.7z

 

My fix for "Are you skilled" dialogue with non-followers

FM_FollowerMod.esp

 

 

Hello mr. Yurik!

 

I was interested, what exaclty you changed in fm_followermod to fix "Are you skilled" dialogue?

 

Found you in this topic http://www.loverslab.com/topic/58074-follower-overhaul-modswhich-should-i-get/

 

Anyway thx)

 

[theman123]

I've been using EFF for years now and haven't used any other follower overhaul mod. Definitely recommend it.

[yatol]

I only want the outfit management and nothing else. One follower is plenty.

 

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/77642/?

 

[yurik]

 

...

 

Hello mr. Yurik!

 

I was interested, what exaclty you changed in fm_followermod to fix "Are you skilled" dialogue?

 

Found you in this topic http://www.loverslab.com/topic/58074-follower-overhaul-modswhich-should-i-get/

 

Anyway thx)

 

 

If I remember correctly, I added GetPlayerTeammate conditional to that "Are you skilled" branch. It was somewhere in the dialogs that the mod altered.