Open the console (~) and type 'SPF' followed by the name of your character.Exit the character creation screen and save your game. Create your follower's appearance the same way you would create any other character you were going to play.Start Skyrim and either start a new game, or load a game and enter the showracemenu through the console.That's why I am quite baffled why they do such nice tools like we talked about earlier (for the Skyrim editor) but yet have sucha steep decline in writing from FO3 to Skyrim. Never minding the writing that is horrible, the actual dialogue files are sorted in a nice, flowing manner, which is cool. Dialogues that don't feel weird when characters are in a loop of "tell me more" - "I actually wanted to know something else" - "tell me more" "I ac." etc.įunny enough, I recently played a bit of Fallout 3 (yeah, don't ask why) and some of these dialogues were very well done from a technical point of view - I was quite surprised myself because I tried to analyze how they did these in this game compared to their other elder scrolls games. I personally believe there can be a good mixture between the system you prefer and that I prefer. Yet - I (as you could've guessed) prefer such a system, I am partially storyfag by heart so I welcome well done editors to do these (doing really elaborate and naturally flowing dialogues without repeated sentences, which seems to be an issue we both can agree with) is very hard to do in not so well done editors. Ok - I understood and I can even agree with you on this.
Not only would this "system" eliminate tactics in combat, it would also place a worthless constraint on the developers and modders. They might be able to come up with an awesome cinematic sequence with such a "system", but they've fallen for the trap of not building a CRPG around what computers are good at doing. Instead, a system like Daggerfall's or even Wizardry 8's, but with 10x more development behind it, would allow for such things to be much more easily integrated.ĭialogue trees are akin to a combat "system" where a developer creates a unique flowchart for each battle in the game, restricting what the player can do at each junction. Using an NPC's faction, race, home town, language, religion and general knowledge as well as your own character's, alongside your reputation with them, is incredibly tricky to do across hundreds or thousands of NPCs with unique branching conversation trees. It becomes difficult to develop conversations into battles between characters. The linear nature of dialogue trees restricts the active use of abilities and even spells during conversations. They tend not to fit into any hierarchy or category that can be governed by large scale mechanics.Īnd the structure itself poses a problem. Each snippet of dialogue and each individual dialogue option tends to have no direct link with the RPG mechanics. They might see, , and prompts, but these pop up in conversations at largely unpredictable times. The player generally has no clue as to what's happening behind the scenes. Some lines don't have any, some are hidden if requirements aren't met, and others show up regardless but branch based on statistics. This is why we see skill checks scattered throughout dialogue trees. Click to expand.Well, having to manually create a unique tree structure for each conversation tends to limit the complexity of the RPG mechanics involved in dialogue.
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