Nether's Follower Framework is designed as a simple, multi-follower system that is light on game resources and allows for up to 10 companions at one time. It provides a host of additional features, including immersion and quality-of-life functions to allow you to adventure with a small team of characters.
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Small code chunk used from confusedchim's Simple NPC Outfit Manager.
- Followers now more reliably update their adventuring gear when entering a new cell.
- Some general fixes and improvements across the board.
- Updates -
- Reworked the MCM menu for layout. The "General" page is now split into "Interaction" and "System". Interaction more or less affects the interactivity of Followers. System is more along the lines of core features, support and abilities for the player.
- Some items in the MCM menu have been renamed and the new pages have new categories. Their functions are essentially the same unless otherwise noted. Hope nobody gets confused or triggered but it looks better.
- New mod versions will automatically sort follower slots upon game load (after version update notification).
- Sandboxing now has a dropdown to switch between Off, Allow, Allow with Autoboxing in Town or Allow with Autobox at Home, as they use the same global with different values anyways.
- When choosing a storage slot for Adventuring Gear, you now have the option to cancel. If is the first entry (- Cancel -).
- Features -
- Reduce Infighting is a new setting in MCM under "Combat" that attempts to keep followers from fighting each other when they use spells with hazard or area effects. It instructs them to stop fighting if they are targeting a teammate. Turn this off if you actually need to fight a follower for some odd reason.
- You can now set the Catch Up Teleport distance and time checking interval in the MCM menu under "Movement".
- Verbose Activity is a new setting under "Actions" that you can turn on or off. If on, you will be notified if a Follower heals you, recharges their weapon or taunts.
- You can now set your Followers to automatically recharge their weapons via a dropdown menu. Followers recharge at a flat value (150 points) with a bonus based on their own Enchanting skill. This occurs more often in large combat scenarios but generally is between 2 or 3 combat events. There is a flash, similar to an armor spell, when they recharge their weapons. Even if auto recharge is being used, you can still give Followers filled soul gems to double-down on their recharge capability.
- Big Role update, there is now a Tank role available. Follower must have a minimum Stamina of 40 and works best with someone who has block ability (shield or 2-handed weapon), though you could have a mage tank if it amuses you. When in Tank Role, the Follower will periodically do an AoE Taunt around herself that will do a small amount of damage to hostiles and try to direct them to her. Taunting costs 40 stamina and can only be done every 15 seconds. While Taunt is on cooldown, the Tank receives a buff that increases her Health by 100 and her Blocking skill by 10 (these are flat bonuses because there's no other safe way to do it right now).
- Taunting will only occur if the Tank is relatively close to the Player. Taunting may not pull the enemy off of you if you continue to engage that enemy and at times the enemy AI will do what it wants to anyways. It might be best to have one Tank, otherwise Followers will Taunt off of each other constantly. Taunting doesn't favor stronger opponents or do anything super-smart but the Follower will not taunt if no enemies are around.
Version 1.9.1
- Adventuring Gear formlists (slots) have been reworked and are now more reliable. GetItemCount is also not used as it gives false positives when using leveled gear. In other words, Followers should no longer forget Adventuring Gear you've assigned to them.
- Updated methods are used to record Adventuring Gear so that player-customized gear is used where possible. If you are using enchanted (by the player) or smith-improved gear, make sure that the Follower you set this up is not also carrying non-enchanted/smithed versions. We still have to use formlists to record the base form of each item and this can be fooled if your Follower is carrying 3 pairs of leather boots, with only one of them enchanted (for example). Object References (that you find and use in-game) can only be "stored" in chests and I'm not at the point where I'm going to add 25 chests to hold and check against all the gear Followers are wearing and have stored. Will cross that bridge if it becomes necessary.
- A Follower's Gear list will show it's base names, not custom names. This is just a limit on how things are displayed.
- Followers can recharge their weapons with soul gems, option is under General in the MCM and off by default. You may give a follower any number of filled soul gems (must not be player filled and the ones you buy from merchants or find in the world). After combat they will fill their weapons using the lowest filled gems first (order goes petty, lesser, common, greater, grand, black). They will not overfill weapons and will wait until it's charge is expended enough to fit a full gem's worth of energy. Recharging has a cooldown of about 2 game hours (6 minutes real time). When a Follower recharges their weapon or have no more gems in their inventory to use, you will be notified. You are also notified if you trade a soul gem with them that they cannot use (player filled gems or special quest gems). The gem limitations are game-based.
- There is a new player power that can be activated in the MCM, under general. Calm Followers allows you to calm all Followers around you (2048 units). They will stop combat and have their aggression lowered for 60 seconds. This is identical to Voice of the Emperor except that it can be used at-will and only affects Followers and teammates.
- Reworked Sandbox routine to be more snappy. You can now set the Relaxing Time in the MCM, which is the number of seconds the player must settle before followers will sandbox around.
- Followers can now be set to Automatically sandbox while in any interior city or town building. You can also opt to only have them auto sandbox in your homes. While sandboxing in this way, they will continue to do their own thing while you move around in the building. However, there are several "breakers" that will cause them to automatically follow you directly again: drawing a weapon, being in combat, moving 4096 units away from them or moving into an exterior location.
- You can define a location to be a Custom Sandbox Location in the MCM menu, under General. If using Sandbox only in Town or Auto Sandbox in Town, Followers will include this location as also eligible. The option only shows if you are currently in a location that is supported and is not already defined as a city, town or home location (via keywords). This option can be used to have followers sandbox Fort Dawnguard, for example.
- The General MCM page has been reworked to better accomodate available space.
- There are a couple new game settings added to help with follower positioning: iNumberActorsAllowedToFollowPlayer (set to 15), fFollowExtraCatchUpSpeedMult (set to 5.0).
- Checking outfits, horse and helmets are more performance friendly (Follower Alias script).
- Horse packages have been tweaked to no longer cause odd following issues.
- Some functions where adjusted to work better when keeping horses around under General of the MCM menu.
- Several alias package functions are tweaked and should perform better.
- MCM changes that affect real-world appearances (horse skins, effects, etc) are now cached as you pick them and carried out once the MCM menu is closed.
- Going in and out of sandboxing is now more reliable.
- Auto warp is now more reliable.
* It is a good idea to use Sort Follower Slots on the slots tab of the MCM menu after installing this update. If you were using Adventuring Gear, you should redo those assignments if those Followers weren't reapplying their gear properly.
Version 1.8
- Update 1.8
Fixes:
- When setting a follower's Adventure Gear, custom enchants and naming are no longer removed. Improved SKSE functions are now used. When enchanting a follower's gear, you should set up their Adventure Gear again.
Features:
- Horse options have been somewhat overhauled.
-- In the MCM under General, Allow Horses was replaced with "Mount Support". There are 4 possible choices: No Support, Spawned Horses and Riding Support Only. No support provides no horse support at all (Convenient Horses). Spawned Horses spawns horses for Followers (unless they are excluded) and gives them access to riding packages. Riding Support Only just provides riding packages without spawning any horses (Immersive Horses). It is possible to have some followers spawn horses and some not and still use riding packages, see below.
-- In the MCM under Followers, Allowed to Use Horse set to off will still give a follower access to horse riding packages. Keep in mind that if you are using Immersive Horses, mixing and matching between spawned and not spawned horses might confuse some followers.
-- Follower Horse FX - You can now apply special effects to a follower's horse when using spawned horses. There are 4 possible effects: Fire, Frost, Ghost and Shadow. Special effects will combine with horse skins and are remembered on a per-follower basis.
-- Followers will move quickly to a horse when the player mounts.
-- Spawned Horses now appear away from the player.
-- When switching a follower to not use a spawned horse, the horse vanishes.
-- You can keep spawned horses around, under General, for immersion. If a horse is too far away when the player mounts, it will be summoned.
Version 1.7
Fixes:
- Followers Close, Medium, Far Follow ranges adjusted for non-combat and combat. All are somewhat closer relative to their previous values.
- Followers now properly set to use a Horse by default when first recruited (fixed again).
- Fixed a couple of bugs when using the Command Power to command a single follower.
-- Followers correctly cycle in the order of their follower slots.
-- The correct follower is selected when issuing a command.
-- Dismiss no longer accidentally dismisses more than one follower.
- MCM now correctly shows Mods that are internally supported instead of "$" variables.
- MCM text hopefully makes more sense and is corrected in some places.
- Circlets should now be supported when using Headwear only in Combat.
Features:
- Followers now switch faster between Run and Walk states, off by default. Set in the MCM General menu.
- Followers should react faster when told to wait or follow.
- Force Equipment has a slight re-design.
-- Now referring to it as "Adventuring Gear", as in the gear your follower wears while in your company, versus their normal gear. This sounds more fanciful and less scientific that "Force Equipment" did.
-- You no longer need to trade with a follower to take their previous Adventuring Gear back. When setting up gear, their currently used items are removed and placed in the trading pane. This also allows you to quickly refresh their Adventure Gear, if you need to, by using the dialog (or power, below) then canceling.
-- Adventuring Gear items are listed in the MCM menu under the Followers page, for that Follower.
-- You can removing gear managment from a Follower from the same page.
-- There are now 15 storage slots you can use for Adventuring Gear. These slots memorize the gear you define and are used to automatically re-apply their Adventuring Gear if you dismiss and then recruit them later. A slot's contents automatically updates if you change what gear they are using. When using the slots dropdown, clicking on the slot of a different Follower than the one you are viewing will replace that slot with the current Follower. If a slot is already defined, clicking on a different empty slot will move the Follower's slot to that position. Followers will eventually use their Default Outfit shortly after being dismissed - storage has no effect on that.
-- Though the dialogue option remains, you have the option of using a fire and forget power to set up gear for a Follower. This can be activated in the MCM and assigned as a favorite with SkyUI if you wish. To use, just face the Follower and press the Power/Shout key (Z).
-- Backing out of setting up equipment for a Follower to wear no longer clears their Forced Equipment.
-- The dialogue option is still available if you want to use it that way. However, it now leads directly to the trading pane.
- The Show Forced gear dialogue option has been removed and is now listed in the MCM.
- Clone Outfit dialogue option has been removed and is now listed in the MCM.
- If a Follower uses Headwear only in Combat, that item is shown in the MCM.
- Followers can be taught spells by trading spell books with them (beta). It is off by default and can be set in the MCM under General.
-- When trading a spell book, if the follower doesn't have the spell AND has enough magicka to cast it, they will learn the spell. If the spell is learnt, the book is consumed. Trading books offering that same spell (or multiple copies of the same book) in the future will trade the book to them as normal.
-- You are notified if the Follower actually learns the spell ("Serana learns Firecloak", for example).
-- Learning a spell doesn't necessarily mean the Follower will cast it and this is determined by the AI engine in the game. Followers will use these kinds of spells most of the time: direct damage spells (destruction), summoning spells (conjuration), healing spells that will heal themselves (restoration), armor/cloak spells (alteration) and possibly others. I would avoid allowing Followers to learn "bound item" spells as it used to cause CTD - it is unknown to me if it still does, I don't use those spells.
-- It should work fine with mods that add new spells to the game as long as those spells can be learned from books AND the book has the "VendorItemSpellTome" keyword (can be bought or sold to a vendor).
-- Avoid teaching spells to Followers that are solely intended for the player or are part of a mod to add some kind of spell/feature to the player (only).
Version 1.6
- Support for Interesting NPCs. There is an option in the FOMOD. Replaces one script of iNPC. They will work like vanilla followers.
- Fixed an issue where the first 4 followers would not use the Healing role.
- Followers are now set to use a horse by default if horses are enabled.
- Spacing between followers increases when mounted and returns when dismounted.
- Reversed a change. Dismiss all Followers no longer removes imported followers. Was causing issues with some custom followers.
Version 1.5
- Update 1.5
(Categorized changes)
It is recommended that you sort the character slots OR dismiss and re-recruit your existing followers after this update.
General:
- The 5 Follower + 5 Animal Slots are more flexible, turning them into 10 total Slots. Now able to recruit 10 Followers or Pets total, your choice of mixing them. You shouldn't need to dismiss/re-recruit your current roster. However, it might be a good idea to sort the character slots via the MCM.
- Slots are now displayed as "1st" through "10th". It still fills slots from high to low but to avoid confusion, full words are used with "1st" meaning the first available slot (or slot being looked at).
- You can now set Followers to not recover from bleedout during a fight until combat ends. This does not persist if you dismiss them, only while they are in your service. Under general in MCM.
- Equipped items via Force Equipment now moves between Followers when using Sort Aliases.
- Creating a copy of an outfit no longer has a one-time use.
- Restructed some of the procedures of the Healer package to make it work more reliably.
- Many internal fixes and tweaks.
- You can remove (or add) the "Summon Followers" power via the MCM.
- Imported Followers are now removed from the Framework when dismissed, either via their own dismiss dialogue or by the Command power. You will need to wait a few moments as they need to be detected that they are not in the Framework.
- Readme hopefully more in line with recent changes.
- If the player is mounted and Catch-up is enabled (or Summon Followers is used), Followers will warp to the player. If Horses are enabled for Followers, they will attempt to mount them.
Dialogue:
- New (immersive) equipment menu shown near "I need you to trade some things" when speaking to a follower. Force equipment, Show Forced Equipment and Copy Equipment features are here. You can turn this dialog on/off in the MCM.
- Recruit as blade is shown in the main follower dialogue if you are at a certain point in the Blades quest where you can recruit Blades. You can hide it by using the MCM if you don't care about the Blades.
- "Remove from Framework" is now shown on the main dialogue of a follower (near the bottom) if they have been imported.
MCM:
- MCM is more robust with updated descriptions. Can now set defaults of most items.
- Follower/Import Follower settings moved to MCM as the Follower page.
- Show Stats moved to the MCM, showing all Skills and Resistances. On it's own Stats page.
- You can toggle between followers on either page, above.
- New language strings added for MCM and for scripts to make it easier for translations. Due to the way strings work, not all of them can be converted over.
- Some MCM toggles now work more reliably.
Horses:
- Potential number horses increased to 10, one for each humanoid follower.
- You can now pick the skin of Follower horses (MCM) globally, between Brown, Black, Black and White, Grey, Palomino, Shadow or Cairn.
- You can now set a horse's skin specifically for any Follower. Choice is remember even if you dismiss them and recruit them later.
- Horses are set to ignore friendly fire.
- Horses don't affect stealth meter (if they have remained for some reason).
- Mounting and Dismount functions/packages are more responsive, especially with sandboxing turned off.
- If the player enters combat while mounted and Followers dismount, their horses will disappear so that they aren't in the way.
- Followers will attempt to summon horses if the player is mounted during combat and combat ends.
Version 1.4.1
FIXES:
- Horses that die by being pulled into combat are now resurrected when a follower attempts to call a horse. Combat monitoring is not being implemented at this time. Keep in mind that Follower horses are only to solve a transportation issue for followers and may resist (or break) being customized by other mods. Will look into some quality of life features but this is not a horse mod.
- Implemented a simple catch-all for false positives when recruiting some followers. Some follower mods that work into the vanilla system can have their own ideas about recruitment/dismissal and you might see false "Come with me, I need your help" type options even though the follower is already with you and in the Framework. This just adds another check to keep it from double-recruiting and so on. Fixes some papyrus errors as well.
- Removing Follower no longer resets "don't use helm" faction. You might need to reset "Only Use Helm in Combat" on previously dismissed Followers.
- Equipment is not checked (force equip) when Follower changes location - it is spammy. Instead, OnAttachedToCell event is used, added slight delay.
- Equipment, when checked (force equip), is now quickly unequipped then equipped to hold the change.
- Followers no longer try to keep a constant speed while mounted.
- Fixed some menu dialog issues where items might lead back to the wrong section.
FEATURES:
- Create Copy of Default Outfit: You can now create a copy of your Follower's default outfit. The intent here is to allow you to enchant or temper armor on a follower that you don't have access to. This could be very unsafe or weird depending on who you use this on, so use with caution! For now, to prevent the temptation to dupe items, you can only make a copy of a Follower's outfit one time.
CHANGES:
- Called Horses have a speed boost to help keep up with the player (+25%).
Version 1.4
FIXES:
- Fixed an issue when detemining number of Animal Followers. Was stopping at 2. Correctly counts to 5.
- Some bug fixes here and there.
FEATURES:
- Phase One of MCM Menu support. Not everything is there yet as I am very new to it. All General Options are in MCM. All Follower and Pet Slots and Sorting Slots is in MCM.
- English translation file included for MCM features. Those wishing to translate to other languages can use this file.
- Horse System is now available to Followers (yes, works with Imported Followers). This is a new, beta feature. This is just a simple system for those that don't want to use the beefier horse mods. When you mount up, your followers summon a horse and ride it. When you dismount, followers do as well and their horses disappear. Horse colors alternate between the darker horse skins. It's likely going to stay simple with possibly setting horse skins in the future. Followers will not fast travel on horses.
CHANGES:
- When Sandboxing, followers now sandbox around themselves (768 units) instead of the player. They will also attempt to move away if getting too close. This causes them to collide into the player far less.
Version 1.3
FIXES:
- Fix for Pressure Plates being set off by some Followers (Meeko! Why?).
- Fixed a CTD caused by Hide Headwear applying changes before 3D loaded into the cell.
- Fixed Controller Script from attempting to use an invalid Reference Alias (cleared Papyrus errors).
- Follower/Pet Death now shuts down the NPC properly. Really only important if the player wants to resurrect a follower using the console.
FEATURES:
- Force Equipement slightly redesigned. It still forces items to be equipped as before. However, it also stores equipped items in a list. When the player loads a new save game or changes loaction, they will equip these items if they are in their inventory. This will give Force Equipment a similar behavior to Outfit management. You should re-apply forced equipment if you used an earlier version.
- You can check which equipment is marked to be forced under the main tweaks menu.
CHANGES:
- Reduced Hide Headwear unequip time to 4 seconds (down from 6).
- When using Hide Headwear, changing locations/loading the game it may take up to 2 seconds to allow headwear to update.
- When teleporting to the player in an exterior cell, followers won't appear as close.
- Added Equipment/Helmet cleanup for Dismiss/Remove Follower.
- Followers/Pets attempt to slow down when approaching the player to help prevent them from slamming into you. Does not affect Imported Followers. This is not working fully as intended so is a work in progress.
- Entry for Force Equipment changed in the readme.
- "Actions" text changed to "Options" in the menus.
Version 1.2
CHANGES:
- Follow Distance between Followers and the Player now feels more logical as the default space between followers game setting is now adjusted. You should notice a distinct difference between Close, Medium and Far now. Affects the fFollowSpaceBetweenFollowers game setting.
- Combat Distance also adjusted as above. Affects the fCombatTeammateFollowRadiusBase and fCombatTeammateFollowRadiusMin game settings.
- Force Equipment and Show Stats is now moved to the main "Follower Tweaks" branch so that it is quicker to access them. Settings related items remain in a submenu.
- Force Equipment now allows a wider variety of equippable items.
FEATURES:
- You can now set any follower to hide their headwear when out of combat. Setting is found under the Follower Actions menu. Once enabled, trade any headwear item with them and you should receive the message "Headwear Stored for (NPC)" and they will remove it once you exit the trading menu. If you dismiss the follower then later recruit them you will have to trade the headwear item again with them again. Also works with Force Equipment, though the headwear will not be force equipped once the npc removes it. Does not affect headwear assigned through a follower's default outfit.
- It is now much harder to have incidents of Friendly Fire in combat. iFriendHitCombatAllowed has been raised from 4 to 15.
- You can now set Followers to not draw their weapons when you draw yours. This can be set under General. It is a global setting and also affects any temporary teammates.
Version 1.1.1
- Update 1.1.1 -
FIXES
- The Framework now prevents the same actor (Animal or Follower) from being added to Follower Slots by doing a quick check prior to Recruitment. This is a quick fix for allowing stray dogs as animal followers so that they don't keep adding in multiple times. This fixes animals such as Meeko. I tested this with Garm for SSE and he would need a small patch to finesse the "Garm joins you message", which I need permission to create (he isn't actually recruited more than once).
- Real-Time Count Check adjusted for Pets.
- Note that version number is still 1.1, internally, so there's no update message.
Version 1.1
- Update 1.1 -
FIXES
- Follower Aliases are now all set to Protected.
- When recruiting a Follower for the first time, you aren't told that they are in the default role.
- Corrected a bug in the Healer AI.
- Improved Stealth AI behavior, crouching delay removed.
- Fixed an issue where you could only recruit 2 Blades.
- Added check for current follower to Import Follower.
- Force Equipment no longer makes a follower naked if you don't put items on the equipment side.
FEATURES:
- Can now set Followers to Essential (or revert them to their previous status). If a Follower is Essential by default, there is nothing to see. Keep in mind that anyone following you is Protected via their alias, so they will always show as protected under show stats. This change persists if you dismiss the follower. Use with caution.
- Framework now supports 5 Animal Slots (I am calling "Pet Slots"). Like Follower slots they fill from high to low, so you'll fill slot 5 first. These slots are separate from Follower Slots. They can use nearly all the benefits that Followers have under this Framework. You cannot set their role or force their equipment. Pets will also ignore friendly fire and you can issue them commands. Custom Followers that you download and happen to be animals can often be Imported and if so, will not use a Pet Slot, they will use a Follower Slot. In other words, all custom followers are treated the way under Import.
- Command Follower ability added. You can issue commands to all followers via a quick menu - Wait, Follow, Summon and Dismiss. You can also issue these commands to any single follower (or pet) - it starts with the first follower you recruited and then you can cycle through them.
- When selecting Wait via Command Follower, you can elect to choose Vanilla Wait or Perpetual Wait. Perpetual Wait lasts forever and causes a Follower to sandbox the area.
CHANGES:
- Essential, Protected or Not Protected is shown under Show Stats. Remember that since all Followers and Pets are protected, this can show false positive as "Protected".
- A Follower in Healing Role will now heal the Player out of combat.
- Removed Gather All Followers function. Didn't really do anything exceptional or useful.
- Removed All Followers submenu under Follower Tweaks. Redundant with Command Follower ability.
- Count checking updated to check/adjust animal count.
- You can now show Follower Slots and Pet Slots, each under a separate menu.
- If you sort followers, it will sort both Followers and Pets, regardless of where you select it from.
- Several code changes. Some of this is optimization, some to allow pets.
Nether's Follower Framework is designed as a simple, multi-follower system that is light on game resources and allows for up to 5 companions at one time. It provides a host of additional features, including immersion and quality-of-life functions to allow you to adventure with a small team of characters.
It does not alter nor include any standard dialog, such as recruiting, dismissing, asking to wait/follow, trading and so on, making it safe to use with dialogue overhauls (RDO, etc). It works behind the scene to translate requests into the framework.
This framework is intended for use with Followers that use the default follower system versus custom followers, which often have their own integrated system for joining the player. However, this framework includes an import system that allows you to use some of the quality of life features on custom followers.
Core Features - Up to 10 Followers (flexible, can be humanoids or animals). - No starter bow or arrows. - Integrated Interesting NPC support (requires iNPC, obviously) - Plenty of options, below, all at your choice, set with a robust MCM menu.
Sandboxing - Allow Followers to Sandbox when you are doing passive tasks. - Set Followers to only Sandbox In-Town. - Auto-Sandbox in Town Interiors, Your Homes or Locations you determine. - Toggle off for any specific Follower.
Mount/Riding Support - Allow Followers to use spawned horses provided by this mod. - Select breed and effects of their horse, select breed globally. - Provide Riding Package support only if another mod provides a horse system but no packages. - Toggle off for any specific Follower.
Combat - Set combat and non-combat distance of Followers.* - Place Followers in a Healer or Tank Role. - Reduce Infighting between Followers. - Optionally Disable bleedout recovery keeping them down during a fight.
Movement - Catch Up teleport (and On-Demand Ability for player) - Can Control distance and polling time. - Enable a +25% Movement Boost for faster following. - Reduce interpolation between walk/run state changes (faster reaction).
Actions - Improve Follower Stealth AI when out of combat. They will not initiate combat, chatter and they move in close. - Prevent Followers from drawing weapons when you do. - Followers will not set off basic traps (equivalent of LightFoot perk). Optional via installer. - Followers get out of the way when you get very close to them. - Followers can Auto-Recharge weapons they use or use filled soul gems (not player filled). - Teach Followers spells by trading spell books to them. - Set any Follower to Essential (or reverse it). While in the Framework, all Followers are Protected.
Gear - Set up Adventuring Gear for a Follower, telling them what to wear while they are following you. This is gear enforcement NOT outfit managment. - Storage system for re-applying Adventuring Gear when re-recruited. - Copy their default outfit into your inventory (for custom armor, mainly). - Set a Follower to only use headwear while in combat. - Blades compatibility for multiple followers plus the ability to give followers the blades gear instead of changing their base outift.
Control - View any Follower's Stats, Skills and Resistances. - Multi-Follower Commands via ability - Following/Combat Distance, Wait, Follow, Dismiss. Can also order to Wait Indefinately and Sandbox. - Issue Single Follower Commands via submenu (same ability above).
* - Custom Followers are usually completely outside of the Framework but can be Imported to use any feature not shown with "*" above. Importing allows them to "borrow" a Follower Slot, so they count towards the max limit. Custom Follower here specifically means any Follower with their own follower framework outside of the vanilla system (Serana, Sofia, Recorder, Arissa, Inigo and so on). This includes Custom Pets that have their own follower framework outside of the vanilla system.
- Pets (Animal Companions) under this Framework use most of the features that Followers do. However, all races in the game are governed by behavior files meaning that pets will do what they want to do at times. Example: Dogs will sit when the player stops whether you have them set to sandbox or not.
The Legacy Version for Skyrim Legendary Edition is HERE.
REQUIREMENTS - SKSE64 - SkyUI - Dawnguard - Must be installed and enabled.
RECOMMENDED - Convenient Horses for follower horses. - Simple NPC Outfit Manager for actual outfit management. - My Home is Your Home for setting home location.
INSTALLATION
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I recommend using a mod manager to install this mod. It is in FOMOD format.
The following scripts, if they are present, will be overwritten: - DialogueFollowerScript (and QF_DialogueFollower_000750BA) - retains original functions but alters their contents to segway into the framework controller script. - FollowerAliasScript - as above. - TrainedAnimalScript - as above. - TrapBear - Altered to not affect followers. You can optionally remove this script if you want vanilla follower trap behavior. - TrapTriggerBase - as above. - BladesChangeOutfitScript, FreeformSkyHavenTempleAScript, QF_FreeformSkyHavenTempleA_000E38C9 - For adapting to the Blades recruitment and adding equipment option.
New Game This is the recommended approach. You can begin your game with this mod enabled. Startup impact is minimal.
Existing Game Likely works best if you have never installed a multiple follower mod (AFT, EFF, UFO, etc). 1. Follow the directions for uninstalling your multiple follower mod, including uninstalling the mod. Your followers should all be dismissed. 2. Make sure your current follower is dismissed, along with any animal follower. 3. Travel to a new cell (any indoor location, for example). 4. Save your game. 5. Exit and Install Nether's Follower Framework. 6. Load your game. You should get text on the screen saying that the mod is installed. 7. Save your game and then load the save you just created. If all went well you should be using the framework. I cannot guarantee it will work flawlessly in an older save file, especially one that previously had a different framework installed. You may wish (at your own peril/comfort) to use a save game cleaner. Personally I use Fallrim Tools and I haven't had an issue with it.
Updating If you are updating from a previous version and currently have followers, use - Sort Follower Slots - under [Show Follower Slots] to refresh the followers and their packages.
Load Order Place this mod near the end of your load order.
SCRIPT LOAD
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The script load of this Framework is pretty light to minimal. Most of the scripts and functions are fire and forget and use game events when possible. There are some exceptions. If you don't want any Papyrus load, you can turn off some features to have zero load in real time.
Sandboxing - The sandbox function uses a single update loop that checks in real time. At around 7 seconds of the player being more or less idle, Followers will sandbox. Catch-Up "Teleport" - The catch up system is on the same single update as Sanboxing but only checks once per 10 seconds. It isn't a necessary component as you can use the Teleport ability to pull all Followers and Pets to you. Check Count - This checks the follower and animal count and adjusts it occasionally (single loop in real time, quick check every 8 seconds). I do recommend you leave it on. The only time it does anything in depth at all is if my animal and follower count doesn't match Skyrim's. You can turn it off and check manually (or on location change event) - this might feel more kludgy though. Import Adjustment - Same single update loop as Check Count, this simply removes an Imported follower from the Framework. You don't use my Framework to Dismiss or Recruit Custom Followers, they use their own system so this is just a clean up as their follower system doesn't directly talk to mine. Zero impact when no Custom Follower is imported.
So... If you really, truly want zero impact, turn off Sandboxing, Catch-Up, Check Count and don't Import any custom followers. You might want to try these systems first before just turning them off. These systems are actually pretty light.
COMPATIBILITY
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Compatible with most mods that affect followers, including: - Convenient Horses (switch Mount Support in my mod to No Support) - Immersive Horses (switch Mount Support in my mod to Riding Support Only) - My Home is Your Home - Simple NPC Outfit Manager - Relationship Dialogue Overhaul - Interesting NPCs - Skyrim Horses Renewal
This framework will not make any followers explicitly compatible with any of the mentioned mods, except iNPCs. Mods that affect marriage or children should be fine as those systems are untouched. Not fully tested with Animal mods. In theory, most should be fine. I have tried Dogs of Skyrim so far.
Not compatible with: - Any multi-follower framework mods (AFT, EFF, UFO and similar). - Any mods that directly affect the recruitment of Blades. - Not compatible with mods that teach spells by trading books with Followers. - May conflict with any mod that enforces the following game settings: fFollowSpaceBetweenFollowers, iFriendHitCombatAllowed, fCombatTeammateFollowRadiusBase, fCombatTeammateFollowRadiusMin, fAIDistanceTeammateDrawWeapon, fFastWalkInterpolationBetweenWalkAndRun, fJogInterpolationBetweenWalkAndRun.
Potential Conflicts: - Mods that enhance follower combat AI will likely override this mod. This affects the Healer Role and Combat Distances. - Mods that affect how followers travel with the player will likely override this mod. This affects Follow Distance. moving out of the way, Sandboxing, Stealth movement.
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