I know this video is 8 years old, but... Can I just say, I have really bad ADHD, and every CK tutorial so far has been awful to follow along with and understand what's being said. I don't know how you do it, but I've managed to follow, hear and understand everything you've explained in this entire 41 min long, detailed tutorial. I'm pretty amazed actually. Thank you so much!!
I have a Skyrim character I created over 10 years ago, played multiple games with him, drawn and written things about him, but I think I'm finally ready to try and create him as a follower so he can be immortalized in others games, too. It's late as I type this and I'm only 15 minutes into the video, but it's already given me confidence to attempt it tomorrow. We'll see what happens! Thank you for the in-depth video!
Not sure why somebody would dislike this tutorial. This is the most in-depth one that I found that someone actually took the time to go through the entire process
I plan on making a fully custom follower for my Skyrim adventures...And this really helps a lot since ive never opened creation kit before. Im probably gonna end up binging all your videos in one day to help out since they are really in depth, thank you!
👍 I am very grateful that you have shared this video with the community. Your video helped me immensely! I was succeeding in creating a character in CK - but failed to get them into the world visibly. Your method for creating a character has everything I needed to succeed in making my very first follower. I am stoked!! You are awesome! Hope you are well. I will be watching more of our videos soon!
Fantastic tutorial DarkFox. I have my follower up and working in under an hour! Might be worth pointing out that Ctrl + F4 doesn't work if you highlight your new follower in 'All' within the CK. But it works fine if you highlight her in 'Actor'. Another strange quirk on the Creation Kit I suppose. Nevertheless, an excellent tutorial!
Hey thanks I went though several videos several times over trying to make a Follower including you advance one. But all I kept ending up with was an NPC who would help me in a local fight. The follower only voices was the only thing that stopped me from making my follower a follower. So thanks for that last bit of info.
I think he might sell his Axe if it was outside his selling hours, but in the case of the tutorial he sells 24/7 so he's never outside his hours of selling. Well done tutorial as always.
Thank you. Making my first NPC follower. This vid helped a lot since "How-to-make-a-follower" vid [very good, "Skyla Skyrim"] used pre-made CK follower. Generally, thanks for your work to help us all to be better users of the tools provided by generous modders like yourself. First saw your work with Elianora; your name here (in helpful U Tubes) was clincher. Peace. Rick
Can you do a tutorial about how make followers using the Enhanced Character Edit mod and importing them into the creation kit? That'd be super helpful to a lot of people!
3k+ views and only 94 thumbs up? he always does well in these and gets very little recognition for it, its not hard give the guy a like his effort alone in presenting this and others is worth it.
No problem Dark. Thanks for your work! your tutorials helped me go from simply changing weapon stats and such, to building entire environments, and have the respective elements work properly.
For anyone having problems getting him to talk to you, try changing his voice to none or their race type, that default one makes it so my follower wont talk to me
YOU screwed up my game! Just kidding, your 'disclaimer' at the beginning made it difficult to resist pretending though. Thanks for the awesome tutorial :)
Awesome job DF127, This video cleared up many of the questions I had regarding the Creation Kit. I have always wanted to add more Redgaurd NPC's to the game to use as followers, house stewards, or guards for my player homes. Can you suggest a tutorial that explains how to make changes to Player Home Mods for personal use in game? And this method does work with EFF so far, no problems.
@Sweet “What in the Goddamn?” Tea essential means they cannot die. Protected means only the player can kill them (if other NPCs or creatures take their HP all the way down, they will go down on their knees until they recover). Most vanilla followers are set to protected. A few are essential. Quest NPCs and major NPCs like Jarls, are set to essential by default, so you don't accidentally break a quest line. A handful will switch from Essential to protected after you complete their quest line.
I have followed your steps, hopefully by the letter, and though the video has helped me immensely such as getting the relationships tab to work. I'm currently having this problem where I'm not getting the option to tell my follower to follow me, all she does is sit there and looks at me. I've obviously missed something but I've re watched and redone this follower several times and still the issue persists, some assistance would be helpful to a scrub such as myself. p.s. Your video is great, please don't misconstrued my words for ungrateful, it really did help me out.
+The BattleBrothers If you haven't figured this out yet, then try pulling up the AllFollowers FormList under Misc. in CK. This will tell you all of the voice types available for followers. This is discussed in this video, so you might want to re-watch it. Also, if that is not the problem, try loading into your cell where the follower is through the console command (~ coc type your cell name)from the start of the game, rather than using your pre-existing savegame to test.
+AvengingNarwhal The video shows how to locate what voices will work with followers. You pretty mucyh want to look up the follower form list and double click it, any voice shown inside will work, make not of one of them and apply that to the follower.
I'm getting the same problem. Oddly enough it WAS working, but I made some changes and suddenly it won't work anymore. Changed back, didn't fix it. Ever find a solution?
I've been really trying to find a tutorial that explains how to make a fully voiced follower (Obviously with custom Voice Acting) It would be awesome if you could possibly make tutorial explaining how to do so.
That information is mentioned in my basics tutorials as it just wastes time having to guide people through the basics every video like I used to do. If you are looking at watching a detailed video I expect you already have a grasp of the CK so there's no need to cover esp files.
I agree. Having a series of videos that follow an arc or a progression is more valuable, and a better use of time than recreating the wheel every time it's mentioned.
did you have the problem of it not showing a dialogue box? if not was there anything you did different especially since we are using the new creation kit now
Dark Fox, I want to create a "dynamic follower", by dynamic, I mean the follower dose much more than a regular follower. Built into the follower mod are different texture groups, some for muscle definition which is based on whether or not the follower is engaged in combat or if the follower hangs about the house or Inn they lose muscle and become more fat, rounded and soft, while if they are captured they become slim and weak. Therefore, the followers body is continually changing shape according to the activities the player puts them through. Also, strength, stamina and health also changes, to reflect the type of body weight. Such, a follower will have to use optimized textures and will probably be script heavy. For me game-play if far more important than high-resolution graphics. How, I imagine this working is using the weigh system, 0% weigh is slim and muscular (no breasts), 50% weigh is normal (normal breasts), while a 100% is fat and soft (large breasts).
Hey Darkfox, do you have any tutorials (or know any) about setting generic dialogue for what followers say during combat, sneaking, discovering specific places etc. using custom voice?
Awesome and informative video, thanks so much! I have a couple questions: Can you make it so the armor in the follower's inventory is leveled? Is there a way to give the follower perks that are compatible with perk mods such as Ordinator (without requiring a specific mod)?
Hey darkfox or others who read this! First of all to darkfox, thanks for yet another great video! And yes, have a questiln to anyone who can help: i want to create a follower with custom hair and maybe even custom clothes... how can i do that? Also, does darkfox have a video on retexturing? I cant find it and if i wanna make custom clothes, hair etc, i think it will be needed? Darkfox generally explains tings the best and least chaotic of many others, so id like to see a tut on that as well. Oh and how can i make the follower vampiric? Basically i want to create a follower based on the await the night poster by anne stokes :P EDIT: also, if i would create one big mod with like 20 followers, could i split it into small mods, so that no one would need to install all followers if they wouldnt want all of them?
eh darkfox, this brings up a good question, have you thought of doing a follower creation using immersive armors and weapons for creating them? im currently in the process of making a dunmer vampiric follower who is using a set of armor from the immersive armors and weapons, hope to hear from ya on this
Hey just wondering when using this am I able to use mods when creating a new character? For example a specific character enhancement to make them look better
I have created my own follower he able to cast similar steam breath centurion spell in his left hand (this making him unique than other npc), costum grand healing with low magicka cost, and some costum combat perks. He will level up with player from level 1 to 1000. this character is dead is dead character able to killed by anyone to make games more challenging to play
do you have other tutorials on creating combat style. i want to make a follower that can use spell mods and tk combat. really appreciate if you answer. love your vid!
Very nice tutorial, very helpful even if it is dated. Maybe it makes too much time, but I have an issue (I'm beginning in modding): I want to make a personalized outfit with an armor from a mod, I can put the elements and save the outfit, but when I quit then restart the CK, the outfit file is still here but the pieces of armor are away. I added the right .ESP as a plug-in file and all. Is it because it is an ESP? This doesn't happen with ESM files from mods.
Awesome job!! Love the tutorial, really really helpful and well put! Easy to follow and not like some where they rush through. I've been stuck on a handful of things but this really helped iron out the kinks. Hopefully you do more! Do you have one for custom dialogue?
26:50 So here's the thing... I can't find any info on it myself, and you didn't seem to explain it. How would I add a weapon into their inventory? Or master restoration robes? Neither of those seem to be in the list :( EDIT: Immediately figured it out. For anyone also wondering: You go to the Object Window into Items > Weapon (or armor), type a reference word to find what you're looking for. In my case I typed "dagger" to find an Iron Dagger. You just drag and drop from the list into the inventory area.
This is awesome! I have a question though how to you apply mods to your mod? Also how can you make it so that when people download you mod they don't have to download a ton of other mods for "hair and eyes" how can you make your mod just a one click download with all the details intact?
That involves converting esp files to esm temporarily so that your mod can pull resources off other mods. The other way is to get the author's permission and add their textures, meshes or esp changes to your own mod. It's not easy and can be long winded, but I've never done it before myself.
Basic follower that does not say or do much, could proof handy. I however would love to my follower having more skills etc. For example you speak to them and get them to do something specific, open their inventory. such things. Or the plain and simple guard or set home here modes. So definitely will check out the rest of the tutorials, perhaps I can find what I need. BTW, I did notice that this follower will stop following you if essential and you hit them too many times. You can get them to follow right away again, but it may cause for issues during battle. How to fix this?
Hi! great tutorial!! congratulations.! .ok,my question. the defaultSandboxCurrentLoc IA Pack, allow to NPC go to sleep in a bedroll automaticly in defualt time to sleep? (20:00 hours for 8 hours)?
Thanks! Some of the tutorials did not have the information that yours did and I managed to make a working follower for the first time. I'll be experimenting on the creation kit more when I have the time but how do we share our followers? Which files are needed to share our followers on NMM/Besthesda/sending files to friends?
So about the part where you said the sleep outfit doesn't do anything... I found out the hard way that if I didn't select a sleep outfit for my mannequins, they went naked instead of wearing the thieves guild armor I gave them all for their "default" outfit. So apparently it does something in the Skyrim Creation Kit.
Your video is awesome! Anyway, i tried to create my first follower based on this video, it was actually a flame atronach but i cannot interact with that. It's just say hello when i approach it, and do nothing but standing
Awesome video. Can you point me in the right direction please. I am trying to find the easiest way to change the face of an existing follower, Vilja, Lydia etc... Is there a mod, or tutorial that explains how I go about changing an existing. Not creating a new one. As I like fully voiced, just with a custom face I design. Thanks.. ☺
The perks for the followers still work when I have mods that change them? For example, a have Perma and want my followers to have Lightfoot. Anyway, brilliant tutorial
@DarkFox127 I love your videos but just watched this one trying to figure out how to fix my grey face problem for 37 min then you promised a link to another video in the description but there isn't one! LOL I think I am going to delete my custom NPCs and just try copying other vanilla characters hopefully export data will not be required. :S
Well that didn't work, used a duplicated default Khajiit and still got purple fur... :( I feel like in 2018 it should be very easy to research this problem yet all the fixes recommended seem only to fix it on my end which doesn't help me if I'm uploading to others. FML
You keep saying protected will allow the NPC to be killed by other NPCs but not by you...that's the reverse of what's true. When a protected NPC drops to 10% health they'll enter bleedout at which point all other NPCs will stop attacking them. But they can still be killed by a direct hit from the player.
Darkfox127, thank you for this tutorial! I've watched a lot of others on TH-cam, and this is by far the best one. I'm just having one major problem. I noticed a lot of other people on here are reporting the same problem, but I haven't seen any helpful tips on how to fix it. So my problem is that when I go into the game, my new follower won't talk to me. When I click on him no dialogue options come up. I have pretty much duplicated each of your steps exactly, other than making my character's name and appearance different. But I even picked the same voice type you used, and everything else matches. Yet he won't talk to me. I don't understand what I did different and why it's not working. I've went back and double checked everything multiple times, and now I'm just stumped. Any help would be greatly appreciated, as at this point I just don't know what else to do.
You used the voice type MaleEvenTonedAccented, and this is the same one I used, but it wouldn't work for me. When I switched it to MaleNord, it did work. I got the dialogue to ask him to be a follower. Why would the first one work for you and not for me?
If it was on the first floor I think that model is the silver blood attack so he may be only available during that one scene of the game. you might be able to tell if there are a couple of bodies to the right of the main entrance. hopes this helps.
btw my question I sent you from your website is under my real name ;-) It's about my follower not dismissing and automatically being a follower without me asking him.
I'm creating a custom follower/replacement of Alesan, using mainly Racemenu and RS Children. I have run into an issue where the Racemenu ears wont show up on the character. Everything else with my replacement is working perfectly. I just cant figure out how to get the ears to show up. If anyone can help, please let me know what to do?
Love you tutorial, just discovered it, will take a look at the rest Nevertheless, you mentioned the AI tab you will go over it afterwards,,,, yes indeed, you just forgot about it ,,, :)
i found one major issue with the followers we create this way. when we dismiss them they just stay where we dismiss them they dont return home. how does this one fix?
For some reason, when I got to the new follower menu to initially start, there were no options what so ever in any of the boxes to the right, such as race, weapon list, etc. What am I missing?
+BlizKrieg I realize this is a month late but maybe others will have the same question. Be sure to click the open button with the folder picture on it, located under File. Then double click the Skyrim masterfile so a blue x appears in the box. Click ok, and then it should load everything and actors will appear under their tab. Thats the first thing you have to do when starting the creation kit, and isnt covered in this more advanced tutorial.
I have deleted a test follower. Is it safe to also delete their associated face mesh file (you start talking about around 36:00). If I do so would I be harming any other game data?
I followed everything in the tutorial to the T (except I imported an NPC file of my old player for the "char gen parts") yet when I load up the game, I can't see my NPC anywhere... I looked all around Riverrun for a good 5 minutes & she's definitely not in the game. What could be causing this? I have version 1.9.32.
he says, "go ahead and save here,its known for closing down." i hit okay >> "creation kit not responding" fml
I know this video is 8 years old, but... Can I just say, I have really bad ADHD, and every CK tutorial so far has been awful to follow along with and understand what's being said. I don't know how you do it, but I've managed to follow, hear and understand everything you've explained in this entire 41 min long, detailed tutorial. I'm pretty amazed actually. Thank you so much!!
I have a Skyrim character I created over 10 years ago, played multiple games with him, drawn and written things about him, but I think I'm finally ready to try and create him as a follower so he can be immortalized in others games, too. It's late as I type this and I'm only 15 minutes into the video, but it's already given me confidence to attempt it tomorrow. We'll see what happens! Thank you for the in-depth video!
Yeah man lol
Not sure why somebody would dislike this tutorial. This is the most in-depth one that I found that someone actually took the time to go through the entire process
Theyre jealous they didn't do it first....thats all I got.
I plan on making a fully custom follower for my Skyrim adventures...And this really helps a lot since ive never opened creation kit before.
Im probably gonna end up binging all your videos in one day to help out since they are really in depth, thank you!
Old vid but thanks so much man, other guides missed subtle details that make it fail.
Thanks so much for sharing this. I referred to it several times while making my latest mod.
Very helpful video. You cleared up a couple of things about the creation process that weren't explained very clearly elsewhere.
I know this is an old tutorial but thanks for making it! Been wanting to get into Skyrim modding and I thought making followers would be a good start.
Thanks heaps Darkfox127! What a well spoken and detailed tutorial!
Really helped me understand a lot more about the different areas of the kit.
👍 I am very grateful that you have shared this video with the community. Your video helped me immensely! I was succeeding in creating a character in CK - but failed to get them into the world visibly. Your method for creating a character has everything I needed to succeed in making my very first follower. I am stoked!! You are awesome! Hope you are well. I will be watching more of our videos soon!
Fantastic tutorial DarkFox. I have my follower up and working in under an hour! Might be worth pointing out that Ctrl + F4 doesn't work if you highlight your new follower in 'All' within the CK. But it works fine if you highlight her in 'Actor'. Another strange quirk on the Creation Kit I suppose. Nevertheless, an excellent tutorial!
Hey thanks I went though several videos several times over trying to make a Follower including you advance one. But all I kept ending up with was an NPC who would help me in a local fight. The follower only voices was the only thing that stopped me from making my follower a follower. So thanks for that last bit of info.
I think he might sell his Axe if it was outside his selling hours, but in the case of the tutorial he sells 24/7 so he's never outside his hours of selling. Well done tutorial as always.
Thank you. Making my first NPC follower. This vid helped a lot since "How-to-make-a-follower" vid [very good, "Skyla Skyrim"] used pre-made CK follower.
Generally, thanks for your work to help us all to be better users of the tools provided by generous modders like yourself.
First saw your work with Elianora; your name here (in helpful U Tubes) was clincher.
Peace.
Rick
awesome guide! that was much easier than some folks make it out to be. thank you very much!
Can you do a tutorial about how make followers using the Enhanced Character Edit mod and importing them into the creation kit? That'd be super helpful to a lot of people!
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Thanks alot! Really good tutorial with a quick and yet easy to follow phase. I will be watching all your other tutorials now!
Thanks for the wonderful Video even as it is 8 or 9 years later its still one of the best. I made a follower today using this video.
3k+ views and only 94 thumbs up? he always does well in these and gets very little recognition for it, its not hard give the guy a like his effort alone in presenting this and others is worth it.
Thanks for the support.
No problem Dark. Thanks for your work! your tutorials helped me go from simply changing weapon stats and such, to building entire environments, and have the respective elements work properly.
Great video! Everything worked out great! Now I need to find out how to combine this video with the custom NPC voice video.
For clarity I’m pretty sure the “protected” means the opposite. e.g. they can be downed in combat but only the player is able to finish them off.
For anyone having problems getting him to talk to you, try changing his voice to none or their race type, that default one makes it so my follower wont talk to me
YOU screwed up my game!
Just kidding, your 'disclaimer' at the beginning made it difficult to resist pretending though. Thanks for the awesome tutorial :)
Awesome job DF127, This video cleared up many of the questions I had regarding the Creation Kit. I have always wanted to add more Redgaurd NPC's to the game to use as followers, house stewards, or guards for my player homes. Can you suggest a tutorial that explains how to make changes to Player Home Mods for personal use in game?
And this method does work with EFF so far, no problems.
Great tutorial. Followed it and produced my first bauss followah brah. :)
+MrSecify wrex
3:08 I know this tutorial is 7 years old but you have that backwards protected means only you can kill them
Is that right? I know it's seven years old, but I'm doing the exact same thing XD
@Sweet “What in the Goddamn?” Tea essential means they cannot die. Protected means only the player can kill them (if other NPCs or creatures take their HP all the way down, they will go down on their knees until they recover). Most vanilla followers are set to protected. A few are essential. Quest NPCs and major NPCs like Jarls, are set to essential by default, so you don't accidentally break a quest line. A handful will switch from Essential to protected after you complete their quest line.
I have followed your steps, hopefully by the letter, and though the video has helped me immensely such as getting the relationships tab to work. I'm currently having this problem where I'm not getting the option to tell my follower to follow me, all she does is sit there and looks at me. I've obviously missed something but I've re watched and redone this follower several times and still the issue persists, some assistance would be helpful to a scrub such as myself.
p.s. Your video is great, please don't misconstrued my words for ungrateful, it really did help me out.
+The BattleBrothers If you haven't figured this out yet, then try pulling up the AllFollowers FormList under Misc. in CK. This will tell you all of the voice types available for followers. This is discussed in this video, so you might want to re-watch it. Also, if that is not the problem, try loading into your cell where the follower is through the console command (~ coc type your cell name)from the start of the game, rather than using your pre-existing savegame to test.
+AvengingNarwhal The video shows how to locate what voices will work with followers. You pretty mucyh want to look up the follower form list and double click it, any voice shown inside will work, make not of one of them and apply that to the follower.
I'm getting the same problem. Oddly enough it WAS working, but I made some changes and suddenly it won't work anymore. Changed back, didn't fix it. Ever find a solution?
You. Are. GOD! Finally someone that knows what the fuck they're talking about!!!
He's not following me, just stood there.
I've been really trying to find a tutorial that explains how to make a fully voiced follower (Obviously with custom Voice Acting) It would be awesome if you could possibly make tutorial explaining how to do so.
The Skyrim Romance YT channel has an in-depth tutorial on how to make custom voiced followers!
Loving your tuts. Thanks :)
great video, really helped me understand the kit. thanks!
I was interested in getting an answer to one particular question, as to how one can match the face color up with the body one. I got it. Thanks.
Thanks Dark! Bloody fantastic tutorials
That information is mentioned in my basics tutorials as it just wastes time having to guide people through the basics every video like I used to do. If you are looking at watching a detailed video I expect you already have a grasp of the CK so there's no need to cover esp files.
I agree. Having a series of videos that follow an arc or a progression is more valuable, and a better use of time than recreating the wheel every time it's mentioned.
Thank you for your tutorials!
honestly enjoyed the tutorial man thanks! dropped a sub and hit the bell for ya!
did you have the problem of it not showing a dialogue box? if not was there anything you did different especially since we are using the new creation kit now
Great Tutorial! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
Dark Fox, I want to create a "dynamic follower", by dynamic, I mean the follower dose much more than a regular follower. Built into the follower mod are different texture groups, some for muscle definition which is based on whether or not the follower is engaged in combat or if the follower hangs about the house or Inn they lose muscle and become more fat, rounded and soft, while if they are captured they become slim and weak. Therefore, the followers body is continually changing shape according to the activities the player puts them through. Also, strength, stamina and health also changes, to reflect the type of body weight. Such, a follower will have to use optimized textures and will probably be script heavy. For me game-play if far more important than high-resolution graphics. How, I imagine this working is using the weigh system, 0% weigh is slim and muscular (no breasts), 50% weigh is normal (normal breasts), while a 100% is fat and soft (large breasts).
when I talk to him there's no dialogue box
Hey Darkfox, do you have any tutorials (or know any) about setting generic dialogue for what followers say during combat, sneaking, discovering specific places etc. using custom voice?
Michael Aries I think he did a video about it now
Worked like a charm, thanks for the assistance :).
Any tutorial update on adding in custom dialog? Or even existing dialog so you can go through it before they become a follower?
Awesome and informative video, thanks so much! I have a couple questions: Can you make it so the armor in the follower's inventory is leveled? Is there a way to give the follower perks that are compatible with perk mods such as Ordinator (without requiring a specific mod)?
Everyone here who might have a problem getting the dialogue to come up. Try saving next to the follower and reloading the save then re ask them.
Thank you so much.
You're awesome, you know that!
love this simple tutorial
AHA ROGNIR THE HORK SHALL LIVE
this was really useful! Thank you!
Thanks so much for this tutorial! Completely noob proof! Ty ty ty!
Hey darkfox or others who read this! First of all to darkfox, thanks for yet another great video! And yes, have a questiln to anyone who can help: i want to create a follower with custom hair and maybe even custom clothes... how can i do that? Also, does darkfox have a video on retexturing? I cant find it and if i wanna make custom clothes, hair etc, i think it will be needed? Darkfox generally explains tings the best and least chaotic of many others, so id like to see a tut on that as well. Oh and how can i make the follower vampiric? Basically i want to create a follower based on the await the night poster by anne stokes :P
EDIT: also, if i would create one big mod with like 20 followers, could i split it into small mods, so that no one would need to install all followers if they wouldnt want all of them?
thanks, that's quite some info :D I'll need to re-read it after school tho :p
Bro applied the Noobfilter lmao.
At the beginning you have to click on file. Then Data and then check Skyrim.
i found it out by myself after looking confused at the menus, i am using CK for the first time but really helpful for other folks, ty bro.
eh darkfox, this brings up a good question, have you thought of doing a follower creation using immersive armors and weapons for creating them? im currently in the process of making a dunmer vampiric follower who is using a set of armor from the immersive armors and weapons, hope to hear from ya on this
wonderful tutorial, thank you
Hey just wondering when using this am I able to use mods when creating a new character? For example a specific character enhancement to make them look better
I have created my own follower he able to cast similar steam breath centurion spell in his left hand (this making him unique than other npc), costum grand healing with low magicka cost, and some costum combat perks. He will level up with player from level 1 to 1000. this character is dead is dead character able to killed by anyone to make games more challenging to play
Very helpful! Thank you!
do you have other tutorials on creating combat style. i want to make a follower that can use spell mods and tk combat. really appreciate if you answer. love your vid!
Very nice tutorial, very helpful even if it is dated. Maybe it makes too much time, but I have an issue (I'm beginning in modding): I want to make a personalized outfit with an armor from a mod, I can put the elements and save the outfit, but when I quit then restart the CK, the outfit file is still here but the pieces of armor are away. I added the right .ESP as a plug-in file and all. Is it because it is an ESP? This doesn't happen with ESM files from mods.
Awesome job!! Love the tutorial, really really helpful and well put! Easy to follow and not like some where they rush through. I've been stuck on a handful of things but this really helped iron out the kinks. Hopefully you do more! Do you have one for custom dialogue?
Great video bro ;)
26:50
So here's the thing... I can't find any info on it myself, and you didn't seem to explain it.
How would I add a weapon into their inventory? Or master restoration robes?
Neither of those seem to be in the list :(
EDIT: Immediately figured it out. For anyone also wondering:
You go to the Object Window into Items > Weapon (or armor), type a reference word to find what you're looking for. In my case I typed "dagger" to find an Iron Dagger. You just drag and drop from the list into the inventory area.
First thing you wanna do is click file, data, double-click the "skyrim.esm" box in the filename list, and click ok.
This is awesome! I have a question though how to you apply mods to your mod? Also how can you make it so that when people download you mod they don't have to download a ton of other mods for "hair and eyes" how can you make your mod just a one click download with all the details intact?
That involves converting esp files to esm temporarily so that your mod can pull resources off other mods. The other way is to get the author's permission and add their textures, meshes or esp changes to your own mod. It's not easy and can be long winded, but I've never done it before myself.
Another nice Job!!
Really great vid! Thanks a bunch! Do you have a Discord channel / name?
Basic follower that does not say or do much, could proof handy. I however would love to my follower having more skills etc. For example you speak to them and get them to do something specific, open their inventory. such things. Or the plain and simple guard or set home here modes. So definitely will check out the rest of the tutorials, perhaps I can find what I need.
BTW, I did notice that this follower will stop following you if essential and you hit them too many times. You can get them to follow right away again, but it may cause for issues during battle. How to fix this?
thank you, it really helped :D
Hi! great tutorial!! congratulations.! .ok,my question. the defaultSandboxCurrentLoc IA Pack, allow to NPC go to sleep in a bedroll automaticly in defualt time to sleep? (20:00 hours for 8 hours)?
Thx dude, helped out alot!
Ctrl F4 will only work if in "Actor menu" was not working in "All"
thank you
Thanks! Some of the tutorials did not have the information that yours did and I managed to make a working follower for the first time. I'll be experimenting on the creation kit more when I have the time but how do we share our followers? Which files are needed to share our followers on NMM/Besthesda/sending files to friends?
Good fudge'ing vid! Thanks man!
Barney looks like George from Hugo!
I can't choose the race, or anything on the Traits section. Everything is blank. I can ONLY choose the voice.
So about the part where you said the sleep outfit doesn't do anything... I found out the hard way that if I didn't select a sleep outfit for my mannequins, they went naked instead of wearing the thieves guild armor I gave them all for their "default" outfit. So apparently it does something in the Skyrim Creation Kit.
Your video is awesome! Anyway, i tried to create my first follower based on this video, it was actually a flame atronach but i cannot interact with that. It's just say hello when i approach it, and do nothing but standing
Awesome video. Can you point me in the right direction please.
I am trying to find the easiest way to change the face of an existing follower, Vilja, Lydia etc...
Is there a mod, or tutorial that explains how I go about changing an existing. Not creating a new one. As I like fully voiced, just with a custom face I design. Thanks.. ☺
I did everything correctly, the only problem is my follower has a severe black face and I also use KS hairs and it keeps removing itself! Halp please
thank you dark, it helped me loads! :)
The perks for the followers still work when I have mods that change them? For example, a have Perma and want my followers to have Lightfoot.
Anyway, brilliant tutorial
@DarkFox127 I love your videos but just watched this one trying to figure out how to fix my grey face problem for 37 min then you promised a link to another video in the description but there isn't one! LOL I think I am going to delete my custom NPCs and just try copying other vanilla characters hopefully export data will not be required. :S
Well that didn't work, used a duplicated default Khajiit and still got purple fur... :(
I feel like in 2018 it should be very easy to research this problem yet all the fixes recommended seem only to fix it on my end which doesn't help me if I'm uploading to others. FML
You keep saying protected will allow the NPC to be killed by other NPCs but not by you...that's the reverse of what's true. When a protected NPC drops to 10% health they'll enter bleedout at which point all other NPCs will stop attacking them. But they can still be killed by a direct hit from the player.
Darkfox127, thank you for this tutorial! I've watched a lot of others on TH-cam, and this is by far the best one. I'm just having one major problem. I noticed a lot of other people on here are reporting the same problem, but I haven't seen any helpful tips on how to fix it. So my problem is that when I go into the game, my new follower won't talk to me. When I click on him no dialogue options come up. I have pretty much duplicated each of your steps exactly, other than making my character's name and appearance different. But I even picked the same voice type you used, and everything else matches. Yet he won't talk to me. I don't understand what I did different and why it's not working. I've went back and double checked everything multiple times, and now I'm just stumped. Any help would be greatly appreciated, as at this point I just don't know what else to do.
You used the voice type MaleEvenTonedAccented, and this is the same one I used, but it wouldn't work for me. When I switched it to MaleNord, it did work. I got the dialogue to ask him to be a follower. Why would the first one work for you and not for me?
If it was on the first floor I think that model is the silver blood attack so he may be only available during that one scene of the game. you might be able to tell if there are a couple of bodies to the right of the main entrance. hopes this helps.
btw my question I sent you from your website is under my real name ;-) It's about my follower not dismissing and automatically being a follower without me asking him.
Ever anybody told you, that you look like Stephen Amell from "Arrow"? That's kinda strange but i enjoy it :D!
I'm creating a custom follower/replacement of Alesan, using mainly Racemenu and RS Children. I have run into an issue where the Racemenu ears wont show up on the character. Everything else with my replacement is working perfectly. I just cant figure out how to get the ears to show up. If anyone can help, please let me know what to do?
Thank you so much!!!
Love you tutorial, just discovered it, will take a look at the rest
Nevertheless, you mentioned the AI tab you will go over it afterwards,,,, yes indeed, you just forgot about it ,,, :)
Thanks man! Really helpful (y)
i found one major issue with the followers we create this way. when we dismiss them they just stay where we dismiss them they dont return home. how does this one fix?
For some reason, when I got to the new follower menu to initially start, there were no options what so ever in any of the boxes to the right, such as race, weapon list, etc. What am I missing?
For some reason when I click on actors nobody shows up?
+BlizKrieg I realize this is a month late but maybe others will have the same question. Be sure to click the open button with the folder picture on it, located under File. Then double click the Skyrim masterfile so a blue x appears in the box. Click ok, and then it should load everything and actors will appear under their tab. Thats the first thing you have to do when starting the creation kit, and isnt covered in this more advanced tutorial.
The character does not have a dialogue about marriage, what could be the reasons?
I have deleted a test follower. Is it safe to also delete their associated face mesh file (you start talking about around 36:00). If I do so would I be harming any other game data?
i wouldn't be surprised if Delphine uses opposite gender animations tbh...i always thought she walked a little different
I followed everything in the tutorial to the T (except I imported an NPC file of my old player for the "char gen parts") yet when I load up the game, I can't see my NPC anywhere... I looked all around Riverrun for a good 5 minutes & she's definitely not in the game. What could be causing this? I have version 1.9.32.