Simple Follower Manager

Simple Follower Manager

A simple and lightweight mod I created for my personal game. I do not myself use the larger and more featured AFT or EFT, simply because I never bring along more than 1 companion at a time, due to the imbalance in game play that results.

I wanted a simple management system to allow me to give my followers custom outfits for different scenarios, whether they were out adventuring, at home relaxing, sleeping. The outfit will automatically switch whenever required. This has a very light papyrus load, there is no 'polling' that occurs, it simply occurs when skyrim itself does an outfit evaluation (whenever the actor changes cell).

I also wanted to move my followers in with me to any custom player home or a default home, and actually use the home. Therefore this mod allows you to specify 'areas' for your followers to sleep, relax, eat, bathe. Once the areas have been defined simply asking a follower to live with you, will instigate individual AI packages, each of the 10 slots has it's own schedule so followers will eat/sleep/bathe/relax at different times of the day.

Why only 10 slots?

Personally I don't typically have more than 5 or 6 followers living with me at any one time. So I did not need any more than 10 slots.

How to use:

Talk to your follower and you will have a new dialogue option "Manage with SFM". Selecting to manage the follower will then open up the outfit and home dialogue options.

Comparison with My Home is Your Home:

My Home is Your Home is a long time staple of the modding world and tackles nicely the problem of managing where your multiple followers live. SFM achieves the same thing, however there are some marked differences:

MHYH can manage a large number of followers (I believe 60?). Each of which have a set of world markers they use to relax/sleep/guard. It then has a simple AI package to do one of those things. You can have followers living at different homes through-out Skyrim with this mod.

SFM manages just 10 followers at the moment. SFM has a single set of markers defining areas in and around a home, these markers are then shared between all your SFM managed followers. This means you do not have to spend a great deal of time assigning each and every follower it's own sleeping/relaxation area. SFM has quite a few more AI packages (relax/sleep/eat/guard/bathe) which are more complex and more individual than MHYH. These AI packages can also determine what outfit the managed actor should be wearing (if outfits have been assigned.

So long and short of it, if you are making a decision between the two: If you want to actively use multiple homes across skyrim then MHYH is the better bet. If on the other hand you actively use a single player home then SFM will give you more functionality and b