Companions

Gnorian asked for help making companions in this thread and Dorateen came up with the following reply:

Credit to Celestian the Good:

Making a companion, step by step.

First create your companion NPC. I made a fighter/wizardlevel 1/1 and called him Melf the Elf. His Tagname is "melf" and his resref/template was gh_henchman_melf01.

Load up this new NPCs properties and select import properties->script set and load up "c_CompanionScripts.xml". If you do not have this file you can create it by loading the properties of one of the official campaings companions and selecting export properties->script set and save as "c_CompanionScripts.xml".

Next create a conversation.

Right click the root section, select add and for the text just say "Would you like a new companion"?
right click the line you just created and click add and for the text use "Yes, please join my group.".

Now, find and click the "Actions" tab below and add the following global action scripts:

ga_roster_add_object
ga_roster_selectable
ga_roster_party_add
ga_reset_level

Once you have all the scripts added and in the order above click "refresh" for each script to see the variable options. Once you see those enter in the following values:

ga_roster_add_object sRosterName:melf sTarget:melf
ga_roster_selectable sRosterName:melf bSelectable:1
ga_roster_party_add sRosterName:melf
ga_reset_level sCreature:melf bUseXPMods:1

Replace "melf" with whatever tag you used for your companion.

Save the conversation and then add it to your new companions conversation (under properties).

Place the NPC somewhere in your module and go talk to him. Hit the "yes" response and he should be your new best friend!

Further down, ByblosHex adds this advice:

Note that the NPC's tag must be 10 or less characters for these scripts.

Continue further in the thread for a discussion about how to structure companion conversations. I'll try to pull all of these elements together in a more coherent form at some point.

Check out the full thread:
http://nwn2forums.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=537485&forum=1...