Making an animal Follow a yet to appear NPC

Post » Fri Nov 01, 2013 7:46 pm

Scenario: A wolf is by a campfire, we learn from NPC1 that the wolf is the pet of NPC2 who has yet to appear. The wolf is on a simple AI Package - Patrol with a condition that the quest about to be embarked on isn't completed. Player does the quest with NPC1, NPC1 disappears (take too long to explain) and NPC2 appears who is a potential follower. If player decides to take NPC2 as a follower then I want the wolf to tag along. Using a Follow Package seemed obvious and having a condition on the package that checked afore mentioned quest was completed too seemed easy...but how do I select a reference to the target to follow when the target (NPC2) doesn't appear until towards the end of the quest? There is nothing I can click on to "SelectRef" i.e. target to Follow in the render window as NPC2 is PlaceAtMe at the end of the quest. I was thinking that I could use NPC2's Alias in the quest to somehow get a ref for target to follow but I don't see how.

Open to any other suggestions of course and thanks for helping.

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