Mod articles
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Basic requirements for an "off-vanilla" follower
To create a follower off the vanilla system, you'd want a quest to manage the follower, similar to DialogueFollower. The magic happens in the aliases. Take a look at how the vanilla DialogueFollower works, including the alias, and package stack in the alias. If you want to go off-vanilla, you need to do the same thing, but DO NOT use the same vanilla resources for ANYTHING. Those vanilla resources (quest, scripts, messages, factions, etc) can be modified by other mods, and this may not be desirable if you're moving off vanilla.
First, recruitment. It's much better with a custom voiced follower to have their recruitment dialogue in your own dialogue quest, instead of changing the DialogueFavorGeneric quest. EVERY custom voiced (vanilla) follower tries to change the ...