Sydney Companion Mod - TTW 3.3.3 Converted

The original mod was created by drg6525. Please show them some love, if you can.

Through many hours of work, along with a playthrough of testing, I can declare this companion fully converted to TTW 3. 2's standards.

Her companion wheel works and is fully-voiced, along with the ability to adjust her follower settings through dialogue as per New Vegas' companions.

Please note that any mod attempting to modify Sydney in any way, including 'just' her looks, will need to make sure they're following the mod's example of her NPC record, otherwise you almost certainly will run in to issues such as her not joining properly, not following, not stopping following, and any other number of malfunctions.

If you intend to use a mod like this, please make sure it's up-to-date, and follow proper patching procedure.

Remember, copy changes over to the template her NPC now inherits from, don't try to apply them to the base NPC! CTRL+Click in xEdit to jump straight to a reference.

For the interested, here's a bit more of an explanation of what I've done:

The companion wheel works, and all topics are voiced through very tedious dialogue work and copying+renaming files very specifically. I even worked out a special method to do so faster, based on what I learned about how the files get named. This is a link to a Google Drive document where I attempt to explain my process, and give some examples.

Her voice type was converted, and NPC data brought in line with the TTW version.

Her head data was generated, so the bug where the head becomes white should be no more.

All her assets were packed in to a .bsa, to speed up loading.

She was converted to an .esm, also to speed up loading, and make sure it works properly for the entire game.

However, I believe she won't go away along with other companions, because I'd need to edit a base TTW script for that, and I've been strongly discouraged from doing so.

So, make sure to tell her to wait or dismiss her if you're going in to an area where your companions are meant to be auto-dismissed, like Zeta or The Pitt.

This is yet another project which has distracted me from my ports and improvements of Puce Moose's mods, both the Fallout 3 and New Vegas ones. Or, New Vegas one, in Tales from the Burning Sands.

Still so much navmeshing and roombounding to do... Otherwise fully functional and ready to play.

Audrey is bae. I plan to overhaul her at some point, as well.