
To do this, find the HirelingQuest in the Object window under the Character, Quest category. That way, we can avoid potential bugs and keep all of the original hirelings in the game.ĭuplicating Dialogue in the HirelingQuest (The third option, creating unique voice dialogue is not covered in this tutorial.) Although it's a little more work, we're going to take the second approach and duplicate an existing hireling, rather than overwrite one. This means that you have to either overwrite the original hirelings or duplicate the dialogue associated with an existing hireling and repurpose it to fit your custom hireling. Hirelings, on the other hand, have unique dialogue associated with them. For a simple follower, a few setting changes are enough, because all of the voice dialogue is generic, so it can be used by any character with the right voice type. These settings by themselves will not turn your follower into a hireling. Also, make sure that they are Aggressive and Foolhardy to get them to engage in combat and stay in combat, and that they have Any Crime selected. In the AI Data tab, you can downgrade the Assistance setting to Helps Allies, which is the setting vanilla hirelings use. In the filter in the Select Form dialog, type hireling and select JobHireling then click OK. In the Keywords tab, right-click and choose Add from the context menu.

You can delete the relationship from the Relationship tab as it's no longer required. Back in the Factions tab, right-click the rank and change it to -1. Type 'hireling' in the filter, and then select CurrentHireling from the list and press OK. In the Factions tab, right-click and select New. To see what voices are available, you can just do a search for 'hireling' in the Object window, Actor category, and open up the vanilla NPCs to see what voices they use. You don't have to do this if you're creating custom-voiced dialogue for your hireling, but this tutorial does not cover the creation of a custom voice, so you might want to follow this process first to make sure you understand the basics before moving on to another area of modding.įor Dundaryn, I changed the voice to Male Young Eager so that I can use Erik the Slayer's dialogue, which seemed the most appropriate. This is necessary to get the follower to use all of the hireling dialogue so that you can interact with them seamlessly the way you do with the current hirelings. The other thing you need to do is make sure that the voice you have selected is the same as one of the voices used by the vanilla followers.


You won't need to give them an artificially high disposition once you've set them up to use the hireling process because the recruiting process will handle that for us. In the Traits tab, set the Disposition Base back down to the default 35.
