Editable Followers

This feature was often requested, and as I was tinkering with the UI lately I decided to make it happen. This small hack lets you edit your followers' stats in-game, i.e. it makes the NPC character editor menu active. This lets you remove or change their autolevel scheme and distribute their character points as you see fit.

You can download the hack here. Run FollowerEditor.exe, then launch the game. Press Alt+Z to unlock followers' stats, press Alt+X to go back to normal.

I've found one issue with this, but it isn't significant. When buying skills and technological disciplines for your followers, the screen doesn't update correctly (i.e. you hear the sound, but don't see anything changing). Just click on another menu and then back, then you will see your new skills and disciplines.

EDIT 2013-04-09: Restored a functional link - Muro

 

Another great addon man!

Are all of these cool little patches combined into one master file somewhere, or are they seperate? I haven't checked your main UAP file recently, so this could just be a lazy question.

Would the AI governing followers with newly-found magickal abilities still be pretty crappy? I'd assume so, and I doubt that Virgil would be able to make use of, say, disintegrate, if I decided to go that route.

I would imagine this would be very, very handy for technological-orientated followers (Magnus is suddenly worth something for crafting)!

 

I was going to have steak for dinner, but I'll sacrifice the cow to you instead.

Great work, Drog!

 

thanks Drog.

this add on just make me exciting about our beloved Arcanum.

 

I have registered in this forum only to thank you for this hack. It was a long search through internet to find it.

I will add some words to make this site appear in the results of google.

arcanum of steamworks and magick obscura
disable auto-leveling schemes
turn off auto-leveling schemes
modification

 

This link appears to be dead. Is it available somewhere else?

 

Its creator has abandoned this community and deleted some of his contributions. Check back soon and another senior member may be able to recover it.

 

Sounds like a nasty break-up. Thanks for the response though. Does anyone have a copy they can e-mail me?

 

It's magic!

Nonetheless, of all the places in the world, the file couldn't have ended up in a better one.

 

Many thanks, all. And speedy too!

 

Wow there.

{Writes random things in random boxes to see if it will work. It didn't.}

I think I'll pass, especially since I can see you already defeated it. Congrats.

 

I tried that (copied some random text from the page, so my username was most propably Comfirm password or something of that nature), but it didn't work, if I'm not mistaken. I though to myself "Hm, maybe the e-mail has to be in Chinese* as well?" which made me come to a conclusion that the fun is not worth the effort anymore.

* Had it though?

 

Just wondering if any of you guys have had a chance to try this out? For example I'm wondering how dynamic the follower's AI's are once you've messed around with their character point allocation. For instance, would Virgil break if I made him go tech instead of taking any spells? Would he use Quench Life or summon demons if I picked some different schools for him? Could I make Magnus go all out firearms instead of melee and have a good ranged guy in my party?

Obviously I don't expect specific answers to any of the above questions but I hope you see what I'm trying to get at.


--edited cause I can't spell

 

@FlyingMonkey
Ah, feel free to correct me, but I'm rather certain that the AI is generated from a single engine based on stat/skill balance, as opposed to specific follower AI scripts, and a few more general NPC ones.

However, I am equally inclined to believe that there ARE a few unique AIs. Naturally, I think of Kerghan and other "bosses", as well as certain enemies in the game with lots of unusual non-PC spells and abilities.