Persistent Companions and Mounts

I'm uploading an experimental version of the mod that doesn't rely on Leliana's Divine candidate points plot flag. Instead, it uses one of the conversational plot flags from the prologue and should... hypothetically not mess anything up by doing so, since it appears that flag is only used to mark whether you've asked a question already in one isolated conversation (when you and Cassandra first discuss the Breach). I haven't played an entire game with this version of the mod active, so I can't say 100% if there will be unintended side effects. There's also a version of this version that summons the Dalish All-Bred with the Ferelden Forder.

Figured out how to enable getting on your mount during combat. Sorry for the mini update.

Major (and possibly final) update!

Firstly, the mount follow AI has been fixed. Your mount will no longer annoyingly orbit you, but is back to using its original “move to target” (you) package.

The whistle now works as a toggle! After your mount is summoned, you can use the whistle ability to toggle whether your mount is following you or not. Unfortunately, you do still need to be within a certain range of your mount for it to listen to you. The whistle is usable in combat now as well.

Once your character has mounted a mount, you can now switch between characters, so the character you are controlling doesn’t necessarily have to be the mounted character. If you’re controlling a character on foot, using the whistle toggles whether the mount AND the mounted character follow you. If you accidentally wander off from a character/mount pair, however, they will teleport to you like a regular follower. Mounts without a mounted character will remain wherever you left them if they are not following. Please note that characters will not automatically dismount if you’re not controlling them and you encounter combat. You’ll have to switch back to them and manually dismount.

Tactical camera on mounts is now enabled. Sit back on your mount and order your followers around!

Also, party banter does get triggered while any combination of characters is/isn’t mounted!

Serious drawback disclaimer: I am a barbarian and stole the plot flag that counts Leliana’s Divine election points in order to get the whistle toggle function to work. I tried many, many other ways to get the mod to work without doing this, but unfortunately here we are. Given that Leliana’s Divine election is sometimes bugged anyways, I figured this was an acceptable solution. Leliana will never become Divine if using this mod now, but you can fix that by using my other mod. This mod is ideally meant to be used before triggering any Leliana election points, but if you have them, that’s fine-- you may just have to whistle a lot before the points you’ve accumulated are lowered to the values the whistle function toggles betwe