Hey there,

I'm having a bit of trouble creating a companion mod in the GECK. Does anyone know any tutorials of how to create a companion? I don't really mind having the companion wheel or not it just want to have a Deathclaw, named Professor Pumkins, to fight at my side (and maybe give him some glasses to make him look formal).

I'm not really sure how to copy the files over from other companions (like rex) over to my deathclaw, nor am I sure how to script something that allows the deathclaw to be my companion.

I have tried searching for tutorial and I've found this Advanced Companion creation guide with Companion Wheel by Caprius (Google it as I can't post links >.<)
to try and create my companion and I'm almost done. It's just this last bit of mini scripting, in the topics window of the Quest section, that doesn't seem to work. The script that doesn't seem to work is:

ShowMessage ***MessageLeave
Set ***REF.Waiting to 0
Set ***REF.Relax to 0
Set ***REF.HasBeenHired to 0
Set ***REF.L38 to 0
Set ***REF.IsFollowingDefault to 0
Set ***REF.IsFollowingLong to 0
***REF.SetPlayerTeammate 0
Player.RemovePerk ***** ;(If there is a perk given by your Companion)
ShowMessage ***MessagePerkRemoved

***REF.evp

(*** = the reference of my companion and in this case it's Prof - for Professor)

Anyone have any clue what's wrong with the mini script or have any other tutorials/guides that I can use for help?

Many thanks,

Croock3

Try DrakeElvin's Amigo Cafe.... that is a brilliant mod, that is actually a companion template mod, so it makes it relatively easy. You might have to do some googling to find it. Best option would be to message DrakeElvin himself, to find out what/where the latest version is.

Oh sweet, thanks so much!

Just did some googling, and found DrakeElvins New Vegas Nexus page, but sadly it appears he has taken all this mods down. I tried googling for the Amigo Cafe mod as well, but every link I find takes me to the New Vegas Nexus where it then says that the mod cannot be found >.< I take it he must of taken his mods down? Or perhaps because I'm the UK I don't have access to them?

Hi @croock3: This is the mod you are looking for.

http://modsreloaded.com/companion-x

It's really Amigo Cafe 2nd Edition but I changed the name because although a lot of the core companion scripting was taken from Amigo Cafe I radically redesigned things to make it able to handle team orders with up to 20 companions at a time.

In a nutshell each companion is a plugin (esp) and they all work off a master (esm) and in the ZIP file I included the ESP file that goes along with the master so other modders can have fun with it. (In case you are not already aware of this, you cannot edit an ESM master file, you need to edit the ESP plugin and then convert it to an ESM master, so I put both files in the ZIP.)

There's a tiny guide in the docs directory along with the required ESP that walks you through the minimum steps to customize a new companion, but it's not a comprehensive guide. It assumes intermediate experience with GECK which it sounds like you have.

Becuase of the peer to peer companion messaging it requires intermediate to expert GECK experience to understand what's going on, but if you just want a new basic companion you don't need to know much more than the basics, if you just follow the tiny guide you should be able to get it working.

P.S. Thanks for the nod RJ, I been keeping NV on the hard drive wating for Beyond Boulder Dome