Hug Your Companions - In-Dialogue Hug Interactions

Made for Patch 7 - Hotfix 28, Updated for Patch 8

-- 💖🖤  <3  🤍💚  --

HI! Back at it again with another dialogue mod. This time, I've added a hug interaction straight to each companion's dialogue, for anyone who wants an immersive hug option.

The hug interaction has voice lines for all ten companions, before and after the hug, is available for all bodytypes and races, and can be used outside of a romance. (Also, Boo is there for Minsc's hug!! 🐹)

The hug animations themselves are from the epilogue, but I've made edits to camera angles, transitions, and expressions for a good portion of the cinematics, so they're not exactly the same as the epilogue hugs. The voice lines are vanilla lines that have been taken both from less common scenes and dialogue choices, and also from normally inaccessible debug/coverage lines each character has, that were recorded in case they couldn't bring the voice actors back for any reason (according to the devnotes for the lines!)

I've uploaded a demo video of each companion's hug here if you'd like to take a look. All available voice lines have been included in the video! (Most characters just have one line before and after the hug at the moment, but Karlach has three randomized lines before, and Minsc has two randomized lines after.)

1oDuRS1E6cs

The option is currently only available for companions! I am thinking about adding it for some other characters, though. (I'm looking at you, Barcus Wroot 💗🫂) But this is never going to be a mod that'll add hug options for everyone; it was always meant to just add an immersive dialogue option to a small selection of characters, starting with the companions.

At the very least, this mod adds the option for your favorite traveling companions. So go strike up a conversation, and give your buddies a hug for me, oki? 🌼🌷🌟🫂

-- 💖🖤  <3  🤍💚  --

The mod comes in two versions:

Hug Your Companions: The default version. Tests for approval, and checks whether certain story moments have happened to enable and disable the hug interaction. These are different for each companion, and a full list of conditions the hugs can be triggered or disabled under can be found in the Articles section for the mod.

Hug Your Companions - Free For All: Extremely minimal tests version. Doesn't test for approval, Karlach's heart, or most of the other conditions that'll disable the interaction. It has, however, still been disabled for Astarion if you got either of the "toxic breakup" options for him in Act 2, i.e. if you made him drink Araj Oblod