La Confrérie des Traducteurs

NFF est fait pour être utilisé avec des compagnons qui utilisent le système de compagnons par défaut, et non avec les compagnons personnalisés ayant leur propre système intégré. Cependant, NFF inclut une fonction d'import, permettant d'utiliser quelques fonctionnalités sur les compagnons personnalisés.

Fonctions principales :
- Jusqu'à 10 compagnons (humanoïdes ou animaux) ;
- N'a ni arc ni flèches pour commencer ;
- Prise en charge précise de Sérana et Sofia.
- Des tonnes d'options (voir ci-dessous) selon vos envies, gérées par un MCM complet. Si quelque chose ne vous plaît pas, vous pouvez le désactiver ;
- Scripts de remplacement optionnels (vanilla + DLC + RDO) si vous avez des problèmes de dialogues ;
- 3DNPC est pris en charge, de la même façon que les PNJ vanilla. Vérifiez que l'option est cochée dans le FOMOD.

Autonomie (Sandboxing) :
- Permet aux compagnons d'être autonomes lorsque vous vaquez à vos occupations ;
- Option pour n'autoriser l'autonomie qu'en ville ;
- Autonomie automatique dans les bâtiments des villes, vos maisons, ou des lieux que vous aurez définis ;
- Possiblité de désactiver l'autonomie individuellement pour chaque compagnon (ou le contraire) ;
- Permet aux compagnons (et à d'autres PNJ) de se déplacer en mode autonome sur plusieurs étages ;
- Les compagnons peuvent être "réglés" individuellement pour fabriquer des choses et/ou interagir lorsqu'ils sont autonomes. "Fabriquer" n'est pas qu'une simulation, mais ça leur donne quelque chose à faire lorsqu'ils ne font rien et peut leur apporter des buffs mineurs (s'ils affûtent leurs armes, par exemple). Ils peuvent aussi vous donner le fruit de leur travail (flèches, potions, etc.). Les interactions sont, pour l'instant, limitées à commander à boire dans les tavernes (avec la possibilité de se finir bourré ).

Prise en charge des montures :
- Permet aux compagnons d'utiliser des chevaux "invoqués", fournis par ce mod ;
- Permet aux chevaux de disparaître lorsqu'ils ne sont pas montés ou obligés de rester dans les parages ;
- Vous pouvez sélectionner la race des chevaux de chacun des compagnons, ou sélectionner une race commune à tous ;
- Procure une prise en charge du Package AI uniquement si un autre mod fournit des chevaux sans Package AI ;
- Permet de désactiver la fonction individuellement pour chaque compagnon.

Combat :
- Réglage des distances de combat et hors de combat des compagnons (!!!) ;
- Permet de donner individuellement un rôle de guérisseur ou de tank (ou pas) ;
- Choix de 10 styles de combat différents pour chaque compagnon ;
- Diminue l'agressivité entre les compagnons (s'ils se tapent dessus par erreur) ;
- Option pour désactiver la récupération d'invalidité (bleedout) durant un combat (les compagnons restent un genou à terre tant que la bataille fait rage, sauf s'ils sont soignés) ;
- Permet de ranimer un compagnon (tué) à l'aide de potions de soin (ou pas).

Déplacements :
- Téléportation de ralliement (et Rappel à la demande via raccourcis ou pouvoir du joueur). Attention ! Peut générer une "boucle" si vous demandez à votre compagnon d'aller vous attendre dans une ville distante ; le compagnon va se téléporter à vos côtés dès qu'il aura atteint la distance limite, puis repartira en direction de la ville, puis se téléportera, puis repartira, se téléportera, repartira... ça peut durer longtemps. Idem lorsque vous lui demandez d'aller vendre quelque chose pour vous ;
- Contrôle de la distance (voir ci-dessus) et du temps de réaction ;
- Procure +25% de bonus de déplacement pour un suivi plus rapide ;
- Réduit le temps de réaction entre l'état de marche et de course.

Actions :
- Création/Gestion de 10 "Bases" (max) pour vos compagnons, où ils se rendront lorsque vous les renverrez (n'importe quel bâtiment fait l'affaire, pas seulement vos maisons). Possibilité de créer des lieux de travail et des espaces détente dans chaque base. Vous pouvez renommer les bases et tous les lieux, réaffecter les compagnons d'une base à l'autre et vous rendre dans chacune des bases à tout moment ;
- Systèm d'estime des compagnons - système de relation qui gère le respect qu'ils ont pour vous en tant que partenaire d'aventures. Procure des avantages en fonction du rang d'estime du compagnon ;
- Améliore l'IA de furtivité des compagnons lorsqu'ils ne sont pas en combat. Ils ne provoqueront pas le combat, ne parlent pas et restent à proximité de vous ;
- Extinction des torches lorsque vous et vos compagnons êtes en furtivité ;
- Expiration des torches lorsque les compagnons les utilisent ;
- Possibilité d'activer ou désactiver les bavardages pour chacun des compagnons ou pour tous (ou uniquement en autonomie) ;
- Permet d'éviter que les compagnons sortent leurs armes lorsque vous tirez la vôtre ;
- Les compagnons ne déclencheront pas les pièges standards (équivalent à l'atout "Pied léger"). Option FOMOD ;
- Les compagnons s'écartent de votre chemin lorsque vous vous approchez très près d'eux ;
- Les compagnons peuvent recharger automatiquement leurs armes ou utiliser des gemmes chargées (pas rechargées par le joueur) ;
- Vous pouvez améliorer vos compétences de combat en combattant auprès d'eux (système d'affinité) ;
- Vous pouvez enseigner des sorts à vos compagnons en leur donnant des livres de sorts ou en leur apprenant directement les sorts que vous connaissez déjà. Compatible avec les mods de sorts.
- Vous pouvez marquer chaque compagnon comme "essentiel" (ou le contraire). Lorsqu'ils font partie de votre groupe, tous les compagnons sont protégés. Cependant, certains mods peuvent modifier cet état. NFF ne pourra contrer le tag essentiel d'un autre mod.
- Vous pouvez modifier le comportement des compagnons (moralité, crime, etc.) ;
- Vous pouvez modifier le multiplicateur de dégâts des compagnons.

Équipement :
- Gérer un équipement d'aventurier pour un compagnon, en lui disant quoi porter pendant qu'il est dans votre équipe. C'est une amélioration de son équipement, et NON PAS une simple gestion de la tenue ;
- Sytème d'enregistrement pour réappliquer un équipement à un compagnon si vous le recrutez de nouveau. Enregistrement possible jusqu'à 50 équipements de compagnons ; un enregistrement par compagnon ;
- Copie de leur équipement par défaut vers votre inventaire (concerne les armures personnalistes des mods de compagnons, principalement.) ;
- Permet de paramétrer un compagnon pour qu'il porte son casque, bouclier, arme, arc, carquois, uniquement en combat ;
- Permet une compatibilité avec les Lames pour de multiples compagnons, avec en plus la possibilité de leur donner l'équipement des Lames en remplacement de leur équipement de base. Mod pris en charge, pour l'instant, SkyHaven Temple Restore and Expanded.

Contrôle :
- Permet de manipuler (donner des ordres) aux compagnons, individuellement ou en groupe et à distance ;
- Manipulation des compagnons (tous) : Attendre/Suivre, Activer/Désactiver autonomie, Distances de combat et de suivi, Invoquer et renvoyer ;
- Manipulation des compagnons individuels (lorsqu'ils sont dans votre champ de vision) : Attendre/Suivre, Échanger, Vendre des objets, Enseigner un sort, Gérer l'équipement d'aventurier, et renvoyer ;
- De nombreux raccourcis clavier possibles.

Informations :
- Un peu comme une feuille de personnage (nostalgie, quand tu nous tiens) vous pouvez visualiser les stats, les compétences, les atouts, etc. de vos compagnons ;
- Une fonction "historique" vous permet de visualiser où sont vos anciens compagnons et vous pouvez vous téléporter vers eux ou les rappeler à vos côtés.

Recrues :
- Vous pouvez engager des PNJ non essentiels en les soudoyant pour les ajouter à NFF ;
- Plus vous leur offrirez d'argent, plus vous aurez de chance qu'ils se joignent à vous ;
- Si vous engagez plusieurs fois de suite le même PNJ, il se peut qu'il finisse par se joindre à vous gratuitement ;
- C'est une fonction expérimentale, mais qui fonctionne sur la plupart des PNJ non essentiels, même ceux ajoutés par d'autres mods. À utiliser avec précaution ;
NdT : sauvegardez votre partie avant d'engager un PNJ lambda, il se peut qu'il n'apparaisse pas dans la liste des PNJ ou dans les menus déroulants. Si c'est le cas, rechargez votre partie et changez de PNJ ; il ne fonctionnera pas avec le mod ;
- Vous pouvez faire monter le niveau de vos PNJ à votre niveau en installant le fichier BAT du FOMOD en entrant une commande console : bat nfflevel. En installant ConsoleUtil (voir plus haut), ce processus est automatique.

Options supplémentaires :
- Vous pouvez divorcer de votre conjoint et épouser quelqu'un d'autre (compagnon ou pas !) ;
- Vous pouvez verser un salaire hebdomadaire à vos compagnons (attention, puits sans fond) ;
- Vous pouvez partager votre butin avec vos compagnons quand vous faites une belle prise (attention, puits sans fond) ;
- Vous pouvez appeler votre cheval grâce à un raccourci ;
- Vous pouvez suivre les déplacements de vos compagnons via une quête interne.

Compagnons de mods
- Les compagnons issus de mods peuvent être importés. L'importation leur permet d'utiliser un emplacement de compagnon, ce qui les compte dans la limite maximum. Cela inclut les animaux de compagnie venant de mods qui ont leur propre système de compagnon. Tous les compagnons importés ne sont pas compatibles.

- Animaux de compagnie : les animaux de compagnie peuvent utiliser la plupart des fonctionnalités de NFF. Cependant, toutes les races dans le jeu sont contrôlées par un Package AI de comportement qui les feront agir comme ils le veulent, quand ils le veulent. Par exemple : un chien s'assiéra ou se couchera à chaque fois que le joueur s'arrêtera, que vous ayez configuré un mode autonomie ou non.

NE PAS IMPORTER CES COMPAGNONS (incompatibles) :
- Inigo
- Shingchen Holysee Knight Followers.

Compatible avec la plupart des mods qui affectent les compagnons, dont :
- Chevaux immersifs (Régler "Montures" sur "Sellerie")
- Destriers plus pratiques (Régler "Montures" sur "Sellerie" ou désactivez les chevaux individuels)
- MHYH - Faites comme chez vous (NFF a des fonctionnalités plus étendues - inutile)
- Simple NPC Outfit Manager
- Relationship Dialogue Overhaul
- 3DNPC - PNJs intéressants
- Skyrim Horses Renewal
- Sofia (traitée comme un compagnon importé)

Les mods qui affectent le mariage ou les enfants devraient être compatibles, puisque NFF ne touche pas aux systèmes qui les gèrent.

NFF n'a pas été entièrement testé avec les mods d'animaux de compagnie. En théorie, ça devrait bien se passer.
J'ai testé "Chiens de Bordeciel" sans avoir rencontré de problème.
De même, je viens de tester "Chats de Bordeciel" ; le mod ne s'intègre pas dans NFF. Vous pouvez adopter 50 chats sans que ça ne consomme aucun emplacement de compagnon.

Incompatible avec :
- Les mods de gestion de compagnons (AFT, EFF, UFO, etc.) ;
- Tout mod qui affecte le recrutement des Lames ;
- Incompatible avec les mods qui enseignent les sorts en donnant des livres aux compagnons ;
- Incompatible avec Meilleure furtivité pour les compagnons (NFF fait la même chose)
- Peut entrer en conflit avec tou mod qui modifie les paramètres de jeu suivants : fFollowSpaceBetweenFollowers, iFriendHitCombatAllowed, fCombatTeammateFollowRadiusBase, fCombatTeammateFollowRadiusMin, fAIDistanceTeammateDrawWeapon, fFastWalkInterpolationBetweenWalkAndRun, fJogInterpolationBetweenWalkAndRun.

Conflits potentiels :
- Mods qui modifient l'IA de combat des compagnons, cela affectera les rôles de guérisseur et de tank et les distances de combat ;
- Mods qui modifient la façon dont les compagnons se déplacent avec le joueur. Cela affectera les distances de suivi, l'autonomie, la furtivité, et de se tenir hors du chemin du joueur.

Version 2.4.4

Changes, Follower Combat
- Added check for get parent cell and also check if cell is loaded before casting taunt or healing. Fixes occasional papyrus log error.
- Added additional hostility check to OnHit. Also added to captured Minions.
- Follower aggression is not reinforced during combat. In some cases, it was causing issues.
Changes, Candlelight
- You can now set the global Candlelight setting for all followers, as before, but an option to not cast is available.
- You can set Candlelight style, including setting it off, for any individual follower under Tweaks. If you do not specifically set the style for a follower, they will use the global setting.
- Both of these setting work independently of each other. Example, if you set off support globally, but set it to soft cold on one follower, that follower will cast Candlelight when conditions are appropriate.
Fixes/Changes, Crafting
- Being in console, loading screen or in a game menu now pauses crafting instead of accidentally stopping it.
- Individual crafting quests furniture aliases are now linked to the object awareness quest furniture aliases. Fixes an issue where follower would be out of range of a crafting station and the player would be in range and this would cause crafting to be blocked.
- Some crafting flags now reset to false on player cell load (with loading screen).
- Crafting time left, in hours can now be shown in the MCM menu in Follower Tweaks, beneath each crafting toggle. Only shows if it is enabled for that follower. This allows you to know exactly when crafting will occur for any specific follower.
Fixes/Changes, Minion Capture
- Minions are cleared on game load and cell change.
- Minion is cleared when it's 3D is unloaded.
- Reduced detection radius around caster from 2048 to 1280.
- Reanimating spells (having the keyword MagicSummonUndead) have a longer delay before detection.
- You can set summoned minions (in the MCM, enabled by default) to follow the player outside of combat. This fixes an issue where a minion may get struck accidentally by the player or followers and just stand there. It is possible that this will cause "false positive" captures to follow the player as well.
- Raised minions quest priority.
Fixes, Misc
- Recommend Gear Storage now functions properly. There was an issue where a storage slot would be assigned but recorded before gear items were applied instead of after it, causing storage of 0 gear pieces. Changing gear around (using set gear again) functions normally, so if you switched gear after, you didn't see this bug.
- Fixed an issue where disable weapon draw toggle is not applied immediately.
- Followers are now checked if they are on horseback when combat starts and they should match the player's state (horseback, not on horseback, etc).
- No Player Damage to Teammates setting no longer affects J'zargo's scrolls.
- ESL flag removed from optional LE spell esps, just in case there may be issues.
- Corrected some visual issues when using Debug to set a NPC as a follower or marriage candidate.
- If a follower is selling items and in an interior cell, they will be teleported out after 10 seconds. This should help with Followers that are having trouble exiting interiors.
- Sped up home bases display in the MCM. First time a display is loaded, it is cached. If you change bases in the display or make any change to the base, it will be re-cached (takes a moment).
- Since I recently found out that array lengths can be embedded in save files, MCM arrays (menu items) are now generated upon NFF's MCM load. This should have no performance impact, just a workaround.
- Added more strings to the language files, mainly from nwsFollowerMCMScript, nwsFollowerControllerScript.
- Eligibility for Changing Follower to Essential or Non-Essential (under Tweaks, Protection) is now made more clear if disabled.
- Added slight additional delay for mounting/dismounting if using NFF's horse features.

Version 2.4.3

Fixes:
- Tracking Followers can now be activated/toggled in the MCM.
- Stats can be Edited again in the MCM.
- Followers no longer cast Candlelight while the player is sneaking.
Changes, Dismiss:
- Decided to split the dismiss message into 2 lines if the follower is assigned to a home base. Way too much text for the length of some names.
Changes, Follower Combat
- Reduced Infighting now uses controlled OnHit event with anti-spam protection (to keep huge number of hit events to be checked against).
- Reduced Infighting acquiring new target is simplified. Acquiring a target shouldn't happen often in most cases.
- Checking combat state (combat, not in combat, searching) used for doing activities on exiting combat (check for recharge, remove helmet, etc).
- Checking combat state for aggression and roles only. Reduces load, fixes some issues where followers do not fight.
- Followers no longer do activities during search phase of combat.
- Followers with Regard-based Courage are now more likely to remove fear effects.
- Tank, adjust ranges on detect enemy and taunt (now 2048, they were uneven prior).
Changes, Minions
- Captured minions now ignore non-hostile spells for hit events.
Changes, Healer Role
- You are always notified if a follower is healed if notifications are on when a follower heals another follower.
- Improved chance of follower saying thanks when healed.
Features:
- Okay for the crazy and adventurous, you can now set a target NPC to be a follower and/or marriage candidate.
-- Put an NPC under the game crosshair, where you see their name come up.
-- Go to the system tab of NFF's MCM and scroll all the way down. You should see "Force to Follower". Click it. Exit the MCM menus.
-- If the NPC has a voice that is a legitimate follower voice in Skyrim or in RDO (if you have it installed), they can now become a follower.
-- If the NPC has a voice that is a legitimate marriage voice in Skyrim or in RDO (if you have it installed), they can now be married.
-- Yes, this can break game quests if you don't know what you are doing. It's a good idea to google specific npcs beforehand to see if there are critical quests tied to them, which you should complete before messing around with them.

Version 2.4.2

Notation:
- I recently observed behavior where saving very quickly at the start of a game could cause an issue where the current state of the script is not fully stored in a save file. Be sure to allow a few seconds after loading your game before you save. This is not a framework issue, per se. It can happen with any script that is doing things upon game load.
- NFF's main esp for SSE will not be ESL flagged at any point. Would cause changes to record IDs and I need those compatible with Skyrim LE for conversion.
Changes, Installer:
- Now using Universal Installer (SSE/LE) as main download.
- Changed behavior of installer to allow choice between SSE and LE without disabling anything initially. This is to reduce confusion when installing with Vortex/MO.
- When you select between SSE and LE, only options for that particular version of Skyrim will be shown.
Fixes, Misc:
- Fixed an error in Papyrus when attempting to get the ID of a "None" Quest.
- Condition added to follower packages to make sure actor 3d is loaded before doing anything package-based. Stability tweak.
- Player Alias script now stops sandboxing/interaction when changing locations, rather than using follower alias. Stability tweak.
- Sandbox/Crafting is now restarted more safely.
- Followers no longer check Charge, Regard or Affinity features when changing locations.
- Check Follower Count process is now further optimized.
- "No Bleedout Recovery" is now set to False when dismissing/exporting a follower. It will be reapplied, if needed, when recruting/importing them.
- The main controler script and the mcm are getting rather large so I've split them each into 2 smaller scripts.
-- Some functions of nwsFollowerControllerScript (the workhorse) are being offloaded to a helper script. Functions that were moved are redirected so you don't lose 3rd party mod support.
-- nwsFollowerMCMscript backend functions are offloaded to another helper script. These are things like text changing on highlight, processing selections and so on.
-- You shouldn't notice any effect from this. It is just "behind the scenes" manipulation. You will get papyrus warnings on an existing save that quite a few variables were "removed". This is normal and only happens on saves prior to this update.
- Fixed an issue where non-unison sandboxing checks would block other checks when entering a new location/cell.
Changes, Candlelight:
- Dispelling light no longer uses casting animations. Fixes jittering look.
- For dispelling light upon player sneaking, you will need to have Extinguish Torches or Enhanced Stealth active since it activates on certain animations.
- Felt that the new candlelight versions are still too bright with too much haze, so lowered the brightness on the light component and the opacity of the haze effect.
New, No Player Damage to Teammates
- New option in the Combat section, below Reduce Infighting. This adds a perk to the player that is similar to the Dragonborn DLC's black book effect where teammates are not damaged. Player's destruction spells, weapon-based attacks and shouts (except Unrelenting Force) will have no affect on followers or teammates.
- Only takes effect while the player has weapons/spell/fists raised. While this condition is true, weapons will show no damage in your inventory (side-effect, sheath to return display to normal).
- Only affects teammates and followers that are not hostile to the player.
- Also extends to not affecting Minions, if Minion Support is enabled.
New, Minion Support
- The Framework will attempt to check for Conjured/Summoned/Reanimated Minions cast by followers and reduce infighting between followers/player/minions.
- Checks when a follower casts Summoning and scans a large radius around the summoner. Can detect up to 5 minions at one time.
- If a minion is detected, it is added to a quest alias to stop infighting. The alias adds no packages, only framework faction and attaches a small script. Up to 10 minions maximum are supported.
- When minions die/despawn they are removed from framework observation.
- Minions are not affected by player/follower/teammate damaging spells if using NTMD.
- Any kind of system for affecting summoned creatures is tricky at best. It looks for controlled creatures near the summoner that are not in the framework faction and not hostile to the player. It can pick up minions that are non-hostile and were cast by guards or other NPCs. It attempts to get minions close to the player first. It doesn't put them into any packages though, so they won't follow you.
- It is toggled in the MCM.
- You can be notified when minions are added via a new Notifications option in the MCM.
- If you strike a minion outside of combat with a weapon or shield, they might just stand there and stop following, unless you are using No Player Damage to Teammates, above.
- It may never reach a point where it is 100% accurate but it is better than no support at all.
Changes, Wait along with Summon
- You can now summon waiting followers (on demand summon only). Is activated in the MCM.
- Will give you a dialogue, per waiting follower, if active.
New, Support for Mechanical Followers
- Now gives same "pet" support as Animals to Mechanicals that can be obtained in Dragonborn.
- They can sell things, be assigned home base and so on.
- They have some voiced "hiss" dialogues.
Changes, No Team Magic Damage
- In SSE, the esp is flagged as an esl. Doesn't take up a mod slot. You're welcome.
- Added option to cause Unrelenting Force to affect followers if using NTMD.
- NTMD now affects minion spells.
- NTMD now affects Vanilla/Dawnguard/Dragonborn magic staves used by Follower/Player/Teammates.
Changes, NTMD for Apocalypse
- In SSE, the esp is flagged as an esl. Doesn't take up a mod slot. You're welcome.
- Apocalyspe destructions staves are supported.
New, Support for Elemental Destruction Magic
- Optional NTMD patch for Elemental Destruction Magic
- In SSE, the esp is flagged as an esl. Doesn't take up a mod slot. You're welcome.
- For LE, ONLY supports the Perks version of this mod as it is the most complete.

Version 2.4.1

Fixes, Adventuring Gear
- When applying Adventuring Gear, Leveled Items can now be affected. This applies to the items you designate as gear items as well as Outfit Items that come with a follower.
- What this means is that in the game, gear is generated in one of two ways: Single Items or Items that are part of a list of possible items that is randomly determined. NFF now checks into those lists to see if any possible generated item is being worn by a follower.
- This is a big deal as there should be less issues with setting gear overall. A good example of problem followers would be mages that are part of Winterhold College.
- Currently, there is a limitation that NFF only checks the top level of a leveled item list, so it won't detect item lists inside of item lists. This shouldn't be common in regards to armor and clothing.
Fixes, Bleedout:
- Revive After Combat should now work if Disable Bleedout Recovery is enabled.
- Potion Recovery should now work if Disable Bleedout Recovery is enabled.
- If Disable Bleedout Recovery is enabled you CANNOT use healing spells on them. There's no hit event to detect incoming spells and no plans to use that event because it is spammy.
Fixes, Combat:
- Remove "Guard" behavior from healer/tank as it could cause the follower to not attack.
- Healer/Tank role followers will instead travel to the player if he is reasonably hurt.
Fixes, Difficulty:
- Fixed an issue where incoming or outcoming damage might be set to 0.0 upon first game load, if you have set the player difficulty override in the MCM.
Fixes, Eloping:
- Dialogue changed to where the player can confirm choice to elope.
- Elope issue resolved where married follower might be stuck in a vanilla greet package.
- Note: You will have to use the move somewhere dialogue (if available) to move your spouse. If the dialogue is not present then either you do not have a vanilla/heartfires home or your spouse doesn't have an original home marked as a dwelling. You can still use NFF's Home Bases to place the spouse somewhere, if nothing else works. You should still receive lover's comfort buff and store features regardless.
Fixes, History:
- Fixed some issues with the history display on the Slots page.
Fixes, Perks:
- Corrected Stealth Tiers display in the MCM.
- Support for Vokrii naming display in the MCM. (Translators be aware that nwsFollowerPerkScript has changed)
Fixes, Quests:
- Followers will no longer sandbox or craft during Roggvir's execution in Solitude.
- Will look into other situations where followers go to Oblivion and so on in the future.
Fixes, Selling/Equipping Action
- Now using SKSE menu close event for handling containers closing.
Fixes, Shield Use
- This option now disregards the shield that comes as part of a follower's outfit. An example in vanilla Skyrim are the housecarls. This is done to prevent and issue where you give them a different shield and they are not sure which to use, causing the game to flip between the two shields.
- This fix may not be 100%.
Fixes, Waiting:
- Followers will now sandbox while waiting in a very small radius (128 units) if in a dungeon interior/exterior. Otherwise, they will sandbox while waiting in a moderately large radius (1024 units).
- In the MCM, under Movement on first page, you can set followers to Wait and never sandbox. If enabled, they will just stand there and not move, regardless of location (and notes above). Changes to followers that are currently waiting will be applied within a few seconds.
- In the MCM, under Movement on first page, you can set followers to Wait Forever. The normal time in Skyrim allowed for waiting is 3 days, after which the follower will leave your service. You can change this to indefinite. This may not have any effect on followers with their own built-in wait/follow commands that are outside of the vanilla dialogue system. You may need to ask followers to wait again if you change this setting.
- Choice of Wait type is now removed from the the Command Followers power in lieu of the changes, above.
Fixes, Misc:
- Fixed display in MCM for followers that can't be set to essential and the item is greyed out but also checked. They were never set essential, it's a visual bug.
- Updated variable to attempt to trigger missing tab entries for some users.
Changes, Sandboxing:
- Followers no longer start sandboxing in unison. There is a slight, random delay between individuals. This should feel more lifelike when sandboxing begins.
- Followers now must be relatively close to the player before sandboxing. After sandboxing starts, they will wander/move according to the range you have set in the MCM.
- New Option to Stop Sandboxing while the Player is in dialogue-based conversations. Simulates followers paying attention to conversations.
New, Candlelight:
- Followers who have the candlelight spell (normally they don't but you can teach it to them via other options in this mod) will now cast candlelight in dungeons if illumination is low (under 40 in the game's rating) or in exteriors if at night time.
- Will dispel candlelight when player is stealthing/crouched or is in interior that is not a dungeon.
- Should work with mods that modify Candlelight effects.
- Candlelight when cast by a follower lasts 3 minutes in game time.
- You can select between the standard (bright) visual or one of 3 alternative soft colors in the MCM menu, under Gameplay. Variations include Cold, Warm or Neutral.
- Quirk: Sometimes the light part gets left behind, especially when using the wait menu.
- Quirk: Followers may jitter when casting/dispelling light.
New, Remove Spells
- You can now remove granted spells from followers. You will receive a confirmation dialogue when trying to remove any spell. Be VERY CAREFUL with this and do not remove spells that are granted via features that might be contained in that follower if it is a mod. You cannot remove spells that are part of a follower's Perk effects (these are usually zero cost spells).
New, Teach Spells Dialogue
- You can now teach spells to a follower via dialogue, if that Gameplay option is enabled. Shows under NFF's submenu but only if the player has a spell equipped.
New, No Team Magic Damage
- OPTIONAL Separate Download.
- Requires Dragonborn to be active in your load order.
- Destruction spell damage no longer affects the player, followers or teammates if cast from the player, followers or teammates.
- Affects Dragonborn Destruction spells and spells changed by Dragonborn.
- Affects Damaging Shouts and Unrelenting Force.
- Does include USLEEP/USSEP spell changes.
- Currently no support for minions/conjured creatures.
- Not compatible with mods that affect vanilla spells (changing their cost/magnitude/duration). Is compatible with mods that alter existing spell effects.
- No effect on new destruction spells added by follower mods or spell mods.
- Don't ask me to patch X or Y mod. I may look at larger, frequently used mods in the future. However, you can patch them if you'd like, by examining my conditions added to destruction spell forms.

Version 2.4.0

Notes:
- ConsoleUtil support is now functional.
- ConsoleUtil support must now be turned on in the MCM near the bottom of the System page. This eliminated papyrus errors, if off, for those that don't wish to install ConsoleUtilSSE or ConsoleUtil.
- Could be some interactions between Disabling Bleedout Recovery and Using Potions to Revive them in combat. Disable Bleedout changes a game setting and using potions should restore health to remove them from bleedout. However, the game may bug out if you are asking it to turn off recovery and then are using some other means to recover them. This is being investigated.
- I recommend that you leave Allow Empty Gear unticked in the MCM for the moment. I'm looking at some possible issues with it.
- Known issue: Starting or finishing a Miscellaneous quest will turn on follower tracking if it is enabled.
Fixes, General:
- Added addition conditions to some scripts to skip their checking if in the console or in a loading screen. Extra safety layer.
- Fix for missing script causing consoleUtil papyrus error.
- Set some voiced dialogue bits to only include vanilla follower voices (including non-unique voices from RDO). Minor fix.
- Corrected some bad description text in the MCM.
- Some minor script corrections related to USSEP/USLEEP. Thanks to dldrzz00 for pointing out the differences. No effect if not using USSEP/USLEEP.
- Fixed an issue where Regard gifting could be delayed indefinitely when you have multiple followers.
Fixes, Language/Translation:
- Skill names are now drawn from the language file and can be translated.
- Resistances names are now drawn from the language file and can be translated.
- Now using language string for invalid outfit item warning.
- Language file is used for warning on trading enchanted weapons/armor to selling follower.
- Notated in MCM that teleporting followers allows them in places that followers cannot normally go to. Examples: Apocrypha, Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary, etc. In Skyrim, these areas are restricted via doors and teleport bypasses doors, walls and everything else. You can turn off Catch-Up and only use it on demand, make followers wait until you are finished with an area or not have them with you for certain portions of the game.
- Some Language strings changed and added under Debug.
- Some Dialogue moved internally under Subtopic.
- Level up message added if using Leveling feature.
Fixes, Combat:
- Weapon recharging is now more consistent. 25% of checking weapon charge when exiting combat.
- Bows can now be recharged after combat.
- Fixed an issue where trying to find a valid target on a dead actor would cause an error.
Fixes, Non-combat:
- Corrected an issue where Healer follower would not use their healing package outside of combat (on self or the player). Doesn't apply to animal healers.
- Fixed an issue where followers had a delay in following when the player moves into a new space/cell.
- Smoothed out various states when a follower is following the player (walk, run, etc.). This is automatically done on the following package.
- Tweaked Follow Range procedures. No ranges were reduced.
- Fixed an issue where traveling to give a gift to the player was at walking speed, even at large distances.
- When a follower is dismissed and is wearing adventuring gear, the gear is now unequipped. This prevents a visual game bug where followers might not be wearing pants (or similar) if that item uses a slot other than 32.
Fixes, Selling:
- Critical fix for Sell Items and Set Gear for Skyrim Legendary Edition. Should now block execution of script while in a container or Console is open. New method also works in SSE.
- When selling items, you can no longer give followers magical weapons or armor to sell. There is an issue where the gold value of the these items reflects the base form not the enchanted one (as if the follower is selling the non-enchanted version). You can still sell spellbooks, scrolls and those kinds of items. The notation in the CK wiki was not clear enough because pre-enchanted items are unique forms but this does not matter. Sorry, just don't think you want to sell a staff valued at 2000 gold for 5 gold.
- If items were not successfully sold before, those items are now returned to the player's inventory prior to opening the selling container.
- When using a follower to sell, gold total is calculated in a new function rather than as items are traded. This is safer but delays start up of the selling process.
- Fixed an issue where sale locations may be erroneously calculated.
Fixes, Sandboxing:
- Followers no longer attempt to sandbox in the delay between selling or equipping actions.
- Changing sandboxing options in the MCM will now reset sandboxing activity.
- Sandboxing package now should better re-evaluate to have followers gradually move to near the player's position if still in sandbox mode.
Improvements:
- Added some voice variety in some NFF added dialogue (42 voices supported plus Frea and Serana).
- Frea (Dragonborn) now has voiced Tavern dialogue.
- Frea now has Shared Loot dialogue.
- Dismiss and heading to a home base are now displayed in a single message.
- Version information is now displayed according to actual mod version (2.4.0 versus 2.40). You can check the version, in game, in the MCM slots page.
- Tank Role followers will now guard the player if he is low on health (move in and defend from attackers if the tank has no target). For now, this happens if player's health is under 60%.
- Healer Role followers now guard the player if health is under the player's healing threshold.
- Follower Attack Damage multiplier allows for finer adjustments.
- On the system page, under debug, you can now see the topmost AI package (in hex) running on a targetted NPC, along with any scene quest that is running on them.
Features:
- Followers can be set to not sandbox furniture (interactable objects). They will still use idle markers if this option is enabled.
- You can now set the Healing or Taunting check chance for followers in one of those roles. This is the chance, every 4 seconds, that a follower will look at conditions for doing one of these. Cooldown is still a factor regarding taunts. The chance for healing is intially 75%, for taunting it's 100%.
- You can now adjust the damage dealt by the player and damage the player receives on the current game difficulty. You can set values from 0.25 to 10.0. If you change difficulties in-game, you will have to re-tweak these values. This feature has no effect if not enabled, if you are using a different mod to tweak this. This is somewhat outside of the realm of a follower manager but I personally wanted a way to tweak this in a simple way, on the fly, without having to tweak every difficulty level. Not sure if this has an detrimental effect on CC Survival Mode, which I don't have. If you disable the feature, game values are restored.
- You can now Elope with a follower, which can be enabled in the MCM under Quests. This is a fast-track marriage option for eligible NPCs without having to do the whole Riften/Temple of Mara/Amulet of Mara bit. Eligible means they must be marryable. It's for folks who have issues with the marriage quest or just don't want to go through all of that. You should talk to your spouse immediately after and set where you want them to live by using "I want you to move somewhere else", if you want to go that route.

Version 2.3.9

- Update 2.3.9
Fixes:
- Reverted to 2.3.6 core concerning how followers are added and managed. Removed cache system and is now again read directly from DialogueFollower aliases. So this is identical to 2.3.6 on the back end with except of some variables being loaded from the variable quest (which was already present in 2.3.6). Tested on multiple games from scratch. Tested on existing game at multiple points, upgrading from different versions. Error checked with xEdit. Papyrus error checked.
- No longer flushing slots on a new installation of NFF in a brand new game. Doesn't need to be done. Lowers stress when a new game is started with many mods in place. Possibly removes a script stacking issue.
- Updating/Ready messages should be more logically placed.
- Corrected erroneous description in the MCM.
- Utility functions in dialogues are enabled by default in a new game. You can turn them off, of course. Includes get behind me and snap out of it type extras.
- Added a little randomness to Healer Roll healing. It's a bit too efficient now because we don't have the package delay. 75% chance to check for heal. It will be adjustable in the future.
Tweaks:
- Set Alpha value now starts at 1.0 on a fresh game, so that followers don't look transparent. You can still adjust this. Too many people don't know that this is a visual cue for stealth enhancement.

Version 2.4.5

Installer, Option to Install Unused Scripts
- From time to time, as warranted or needed, scripts can be removed from the Framework in new versions. This can cause papyrus to cuss and swear as Skyrim will not fully clean out old scripts, even those removed safely (and they are).
- If you are using the framework in an existing game, you can opt to install dummy versions of these removed scripts to keep papyrus free of errors. However, if you like to clean your saves with ReSaver or a similar utility, you do not need to install the dummy scripts as it will removed these unused instances.
- If you are installing the framework into a new game, you do not need to check this option.
- It will technically not hurt anything if you ignore this option and do not install the dummy scripts.
Removal, Brawling/Sparring
- Completely removed the brawling system from the framework. It is just too problematic to get correct, especially when other mods are involved. This is not anyone else's fault, it's my fault for not getting it to work right.
- Removed cleanly from the system, further cleaning with xEdit 4.02.
- In Papyrus you will get some messages that end "This variable will be skipped.". This is normal and will not persist in future saves.
- Concerning ReSaver (or similar save cleaners), see the installer option notes above.
- On the upside, removed several scripts and some dead weight from the mod.
Changes, AI Packages
- Removed the large, custom follow package that was previously in place for several small condition-based packages.
- Reduces (but does not remove) the amount of unusual follower behavior, such as running in place and colliding into objects that are caused by custom packages.
Fixes, Gifting
- Gifting is now handled simarly to Selling in terms of how the quest and aliases are handled. This should work better in most cases. Gifting followers ignore combat and are protected while gifting (they can't gift while in combat already). Gifting faction is depreciated.
- Gifting quest is cleared on game load in the event it gets stuck.
- Prior to giving you a gift, a message will appear "X has something for you." to let you know what is going on.
- Gifting now has a 15-second timeout. If the follower doesn't reach you and give a gift within this time, the related quest is stopped and they will try later.
Fixes, Crafting
- Multiple tweaks applied to crafting so that multiple followers are handled better. All followers should craft when able to, if sandboxing is active.
Fixes, Selling
- You can now sell all items, including magic items.
- Selling now uses the Gift interface instead of the Trading interface. Due to how this interface works, once you give them something, you cannot take it back, so take your time. It is the only interface that can pass actual item values to a script.
- Target destination is now set to the center marker of the town instead of the center marker of the store. This should allow followers to sell without accidentally causing a bounty.
- Selling now has an exterior cell timeout of 25 seconds. When this threshold is reached, they will be teleported to the target destination.
- Summon Followers now works on a selling follower that is trying to get back to the player.
- If there are still items in the "to be sold" container when loading a save, those items will be returned to the player and the selling system reset. This should fix a reported glitch, though I haven't had it happen in game. Make sure sales are complete, if you can, before saving a game and exiting for the evening.
- Addition check that gives gold to the player if selling is stuck, when starting a new sale.
Fixes, Minions
- Minions are now only auto cleared if dead/not loaded/marked for dead.
- Fixed an issue where reanimated minions weren't given extra time for detection (the reanimating effect can be very long).
- Increased range to 1600 units when trying to acquire minions (mainly for fast-moving minions).
Fixes, MCM Menu
- Fixed erroneous display of individual Sandbox toggle. Would seem to uncheck itself but it wasn't refreshing.
- Changing Sandbox settings now forces evaluation of packages when exiting the MCM.
- Remove NPC debug option changed. Renamed to Purge NPC to avoid now thoroughly attempts to clear out a stuck follower and can attempt to reset other followers. When you use this function, you are now asked if it is a standard follower, expendable or import via a menu and it will proceed from there. Functions near identical to dismiss or export via dialogue but forces npcs out of key framework factions.
- An unsupported class now shows the name of the class in parenthesis, rather than "Custom".
- "Use Default Combat" no longer prevents a follower from being a Healer.
- "Use Default Combat" doesn't prevent Tank or Healer Role, so the description in the MCM was corrected.
- Optimized some MCM display, depending on choices. Home Bases still needs a slight overhaul (in progress).
Fixes, Misc
- Support for a Follower's "Display Name" in all aspects of the mod. Essentially, the mod now tries to find the name of a Follower based on the name displayed in game. If not found, uses the name of the Follower's Actor Base. This supports quests that change the name of an actor.
- Added "Follower in Scene" (must be false) condition to Avoidance.
- Fixed an issue where Regard increase messages would not be displayed.
- Hirelings added to comment faction ("Look Over There!", "Be careful", etc).
- Followers in Framework travel packages will opt more to run instead of walk when at a higher or lower elevation than their target (Affects crafting as well).
- Fixed a couple of issues handling dead actors when follower is looking for hostile target.
- Attempt to clarify some of the Import/Export language used. Import is now shown as "[Add to Framework (Import)]". Export is shown as "[Remove from Framework (Export)]".
- Fixed an issue where Followers would not do idle chatter, if enabled.
- Tweaked Adventuring Gear outfit equipping. It seems that some items/actors can become very stubborn so the system will attempt to unequip briefly and equip if an item isn't equipped.
- Summon Followers no longer works while followers are being managed by Convenient Horses. This mainly keeps auto-Teleport from constantly teleporting a follower to you when they are buying a horse.
- No Player Damage to Teammates only activates when the player is attacking. This means that weapon display should no longer show 0 damage unless you are attacking.
- Some script properties were optimized.
- Reoptimized main esp with xEdit 4.0.2.
Feature, Enforce Combat Range
- Followers can be partially forced to stay in proximity to the player, according to their combat range.
- This fixes issues where followers may wander fairly far from the player in combat or be feared or similar and not return to the area.
- This helps with issues where the player is in a larger room of a dungeon and followers are stuck in a hallway or corridor, mainly because a caster or archer is blocking everyone.
- It also works with captured minions (like flame atronachs blocking areas).
- It does not work if using Use Default Combat on a follower.
- This feature doesn't work flawlessly. It also has a bit of random chance to it. It is skipped if the follower is attacking or casting a spell so that it isn't distruptive.
- It uses the travel to procedure so occasionally followers may kind of appear near the player (hop short distances).
Feature, All Followers Behind You
- Can be hotkeyed and also can be used in the command followers ability.
- All followers in a short range around the player will be placed behind the player.
Feature, Player Interaction
- Some player actions will prompt followers to comment. Currently player leveling and crafting items at the forge are supported.
- You can toggle this off in the MCM or for individual followers (under Tweaks).
- All Vanilla-voiced followers (including RDO expanded vanilla voices), Serana and Frea have a chance to congratulate the player on leveling or generally be impressed. Up to 5 followers can comment and the number is random. Followers need to be within 1200 units to comment.
- Many, but not all, Vanilla-voiced followers (blacksmith voices plus some additional female voices), Serana or Frea may comment when the player is crafting armor or weapons (Smithing skill must be 30 or higher). There is a 25% chance that one follower will comment. Only occurs if the follower is within 1200 units and only once per 15 minutes game time.
- These are story event driven and script-free.
Features, Misc
- Under Wealth options in the MCM, you can now set followers to not receive gold in their inventory from NFF cost features.
- If you have modified skills via NFF and they are different from the skills displayed on the actor's base (including calculations from leveling), they will be shown in blue text. When you go into edit mode, you will be the original value followed by the modified value. I noted that changing class of a follower would re-adjust modified skills - I was in error.