Making Player Characters into NPCs Options

[SubRosa]

Those are great ideas! Abiene would be a natural for a Restoration trainer, and that's a way for me to learn about editing dialog (I think). I'd like to give Jerric one of Stenvar's lines rather than the one he uses. Abiene will make me figure out how to do it.

I have my eye on a nice spot in Falkreath. Might be a good place to learn how to make a building for Mikke. And Roggi, of course. It should be easy to add a copy of him. Plus some dogs and kids... Oh, and maybe a river.

I'm trying to think of where the Khajiit caravans don't go. That would be a good place for J'Shanji and Shuvesse. If it was somewhere warm, of course. Oh! They could run a shop in Green River.

*cancels all other plans*

I have never seen the caravans in Morthal or Falkreath. Put Green River somewhere in Falkreath Hold, maybe in that area southwest of the big lake?

[King Coin]

Aravi

I made her a custom race so that she can have her spotted fur without requiring me to make all the other Khajiit in the world spotted. It was actually a lot of work, but enlightening on how these things in the Creation Kit interact.

I'm trying to think of where to put her in the world. One idea is to have her follow Kharjo's caravan. The other is to make her a random encounter as you travel on the road.

EDIT:

These are the tutorials I used to make the custom race:
Creating a custom race
Getting custom textures to work
Read the second tutorial when you get to "Add the required Armour and Armour addons" in the first tutorial if you have custom textures.

This post has been edited by King Coin: Nov 2 2013, 06:08 PM

[mALX]

Aravi

I made her a custom race so that she can have her spotted fur without requiring me to make all the other Khajiit in the world spotted. It was actually a lot of work, but enlightening on how these things in the Creation Kit interact.

I'm trying to think of where to put her in the world. One idea is to have her follow Kharjo's caravan. The other is to make her a random encounter as you travel on the road.

EDIT:

These are the tutorials I used to make the custom race:
Creating a custom race
Getting custom textures to work
Read the second tutorial when you get to "Add the required Armour and Armour addons" in the first tutorial if you have custom textures.

These links are AWESOME! I have favorited the Oblivion side of this site! I love the screen of the Aravi follower, Awesome! Really have to figure out how to do it in Oblivion, there has to be a way!

[SubRosa]

Aravi

I made her a custom race so that she can have her spotted fur without requiring me to make all the other Khajiit in the world spotted. It was actually a lot of work, but enlightening on how these things in the Creation Kit interact.

I'm trying to think of where to put her in the world. One idea is to have her follow Kharjo's caravan. The other is to make her a random encounter as you travel on the road.

EDIT:

These are the tutorials I used to make the custom race:
Creating a custom race
Getting custom textures to work
Read the second tutorial when you get to "Add the required Armour and Armour addons" in the first tutorial if you have custom textures.

I created a new race from scratch for Persephone. It was a lot of work. Especially creating a new headpart for every eye color, every hair style, every eyebrow, etc...

Those were good links you provided. The first one especially goes into a lot of detail. I used it when I created my Deadwalker race for Persephone. It helped me with creating the armor addons for the hands, feet, and head.

Putting Aravi in Kharjo's caravans sounds like an excellent idea. Or you might put her in Castle Dawnguard, but that would require having the DLC active all the time (I keep it on all the time for all my characters, but I realize you might not want to).

[King Coin]

Here she is! I used a non-Khajiit voice set for her because there isn't any dialog for a female Khajiit to become a follower. And I prefer the sound of this one over the rasp.

I created a new race from scratch for Persephone. It was a lot of work. Especially creating a new headpart for every eye color, every hair style, every eyebrow, etc...

Yeah, that was kind of surprising. I was able to use most of the Khajiit stuff on Aravi, though there was a few things that I had to make separately. This race isn't playable either so I only did the one hair, the one scar, the one set of earrings.

Putting Aravi in Kharjo's caravans sounds like an excellent idea. Or you might put her in Castle Dawnguard, but that would require having the DLC active all the time (I keep it on all the time for all my characters, but I realize you might not want to).

I went with the caravans. It was really easy to make her another caravan follower. Meeting her in Castle Dawnguard is a neat idea, and I may do that later.

[Acadian]

KC, congrats! She's spectacular and I love her voice - it seems to quite suit her and Aravi did not learn her speech from Khajiit anyway.

[SubRosa]

I have to admit it sounds strange to hear that voice coming out of a Khajiit. But it one of the better ones in the game. It is certainly better than the default Nord Female voice!

You might also make Aravi a merchant, and have her sell anti-vampire things. Stuff like Stendarr's Aura and Sunfire spellbooks, Bane of the Undead Scrolls, cure disease potions, that sort of thing.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Nov 3 2013, 12:57 AM

[mALX]

Here she is! I used a non-Khajiit voice set for her because there isn't any dialog for a female Khajiit to become a follower. And I prefer the sound of this one over the rasp.

Is that Serana's voice?

[Grits]

Oh my gosh, I adore her! The outfit you chose shows off her unique coloring so well, and I love her sweet voice. It was awesome to see her at ease moving around the campfire with the other Khajiit.

Thanks for showing her equipment, you know I was dying to see! Have you given her some spells?

Yay, this is exciting!

[King Coin]

KC, congrats! She's spectacular and I love her voice - it seems to quite suit her and Aravi did not learn her speech from Khajiit anyway.

Thanks! That is my favorite of the available voices.

You might also make Aravi a merchant, and have her sell anti-vampire things. Stuff like Stendarr's Aura and Sunfire spellbooks, Bane of the Undead Scrolls, cure disease potions, that sort of thing.

That's an interesting idea. I might consider that later. Right now I'm testing her combat AI and adjusting it. Currently she's using the assassin AI package, because that's one of the few that dual wields. I want to see how often she uses her bow.

Is that Serana's voice?

Nope, that's one of the standard voices.

Oh my gosh, I adore her! The outfit you chose shows off her unique coloring so well, and I love her sweet voice. It was awesome to see her at ease moving around the campfire with the other Khajiit.

Thanks for showing her equipment, you know I was dying to see! Have you given her some spells?

Yay, this is exciting!

The bad thing about that outfit is that she looks so cold when they are north!

As for spells, I've given her a TON of perks and the Lord stone ability. I'm going to give her a couple of healing spells and see what she does with them. I'm also going to see what she does if I give her the fire breath words.




Right now she uses the standard follower quest. Something I'd like to do is pull her out of that one and make a different controlling quest for her, so that she doesn't use the standard follower slot. Something else I could do is make it detect when the player levels up and make it add a perk to Aravi instead of loading her up with perks like I have.

I had to deal with the infamous 'white face' bug with Aravi. That ended up being a simple fix. After creating your character in the CK, click on them in the Object Window and press ctrl+F4 and that exports their face tints. The files will appear at: Skyrim\Data\textures\actors\character\FacegenData\Facetint\YourModName. Just leave them there, and in game your character's face will be correctly colored.
EDIT: There are meshes generated as well, you need them too. They will have the same path as the face tint textures, just in the meshes folder instead.

This post has been edited by King Coin: Nov 8 2013, 05:35 AM

[King Coin]

If anyone would like Aravi in their game, here's a link.

She will be following the Khajiit caravan that travels between Dawnstar and Riften. Right now she has the functionality of all the standard followers. I will add more complex behavior later.

The only issue I know about is headgear does not appear correctly on her, it clips through her face. Don't give her a helmet and everything should be fine. I think I know what I need to do thanks to ghastly, but I do not have time to mess with it right now.

This post has been edited by King Coin: Feb 21 2014, 03:50 AM

[Grits]

I absolutely LOVE having Aravi in Jerric’s Skyrim. Her voice is perfect for her, and she is such a speedy little badass! So far only Valdi has found her from my crew. Valdi and Erik are helping her (LOL) retrieve Kharjo’s Moon Amulet. Then I’m not sure what they’ll do, but I’m sure Kharjo will come along for it too.

The story of why Jerric has not found Aravi yet will soon be posted in the Today thread. It’s a typical Jerric situation!

KC, thank you so much for offering Aravi as a companion! She is every bit as lovely and awesome as she is in your videos. Yay!!

[King Coin]

Glad you are enjoying her! I noticed her equipping shields. Just another thing to do eventually!