I tried to figure how to set up Animal Companion on Paladins for a fella, and got everything to work except the GUI that allows players to choose their companion’s type and name. So, long story short, there’s two scripts here. The first is a console script that needs to be run once, setting the companion’s type and name as variables on the currently controlled character. The second is an override spellscript for the Animal Companion spellability.
throw them both into a folder in /Override (and compile them) if you’re curious to try it …
This is alpha material. The only test that’s been done is - I pressed the feat button and an animal appeared.
// 'anico'
/*
console script.
Grants a Paladin the AnimalCompanion feat.
NOTE: This requires a modified summoning script ( nw_s2_animalcom ) to work.
- iType : the type of companion as referenced by row in Hen_Companion.2da
- sLabel : a first name for your animal companion
Example ...
`
debugmode 1
rs anico(0,"frank")
debugmode 0
`
that's a badger by the name of frank
To revert to a standard Animal Companion run this script like so:
rs anico(-1,"")
*/
void main(int iType, string sLabel)
{
object oPc = GetControlledCharacter(OBJECT_SELF);
if (iType < 0) // clear the companion variables
{
if (GetLocalInt(oPc, "AniCoType"))
{
SendMessageToPC(oPc, "<c=green>NOTICE :</c> Your Animal Companion has been cleared.");
DeleteLocalInt(oPc, "AniCoType");
DeleteLocalString(oPc, "AniCoLabel");
}
else
SendMessageToPC(oPc, "<c=green>NOTICE :</c> Your Animal Companion was not set so there's no point in clearing it.");
}
else if (GetLevelByClass(CLASS_TYPE_PALADIN, oPc))
{
SendMessageToPC(oPc, "<c=blue>WARNING :</c> What you have done will overrule any"
+ " Animal Companion that you can summon as a Druid or Ranger or Cleric."
+ " To revert that behavior rerun this script with parameters -1 and a"
+ " blank string. Your PC will however keep the Animal Companion feat"
+ " regardless of whether you had it before - but it won't work unless"
+ " your PC has a standard Animal Companion or you run this script to"
+ " reset your Paladin's companion.");
if (!GetHasFeat(FEAT_ANIMAL_COMPANION, oPc))
FeatAdd(oPc, FEAT_ANIMAL_COMPANION, FALSE, TRUE);
iType += 1; // have to increment so that the spellscript doesn't think "0" (unset) is a badger
SetLocalInt(oPc, "AniCoType", iType);
SetLocalString(oPc, "AniCoLabel", sLabel);
}
else
SendMessageToPC(oPc, "<c=red>ERROR :</c> ( anico ) You must have levels in the Paladin class.");
}
the spellscript:
//::///////////////////////////////////////////////
//:: Summon Animal Companion
//:: 'nw_s2_animalcom'
//:: Copyright (c) 2001 Bioware Corp.
//:://////////////////////////////////////////////
/*
This spellability summons an Animal Companion.
*/
int kL_GetAnimalTier(object oPC);
int kL_GetAssociateLevel(object oPC);
//
void main()
{
object oCaster = OBJECT_SELF;
int iType = GetLocalInt(oCaster, "AniCoType");
if (iType)
{
iType -= 1; // incremented when set; decrement to get the true reference
string sResref = Get2DAString("hen_companion", "BASERESREF_PREFIX", iType);
sResref += IntToString(kL_GetAnimalTier(oCaster));
SummonAnimalCompanion(oCaster, sResref);
object oAnico = GetAssociate(ASSOCIATE_TYPE_ANIMALCOMPANION, oCaster);
if (GetIsObjectValid(oAnico))
{
string sLabel = GetLocalString(oCaster, "AniCoLabel");
SetFirstName(oAnico, sLabel);
}
else
SendMessageToPC(oCaster, "<c=red>ERROR :</c> ( nw_s2_animalcom ) Animal Companion is invalid. sResref= " + sResref);
}
else
SummonAnimalCompanion(); // standard summon
}
//
int kL_GetAnimalTier(object oPC)
{
return kL_GetAssociateLevel(oPC) / 3 + 1;
}
//
int kL_GetAssociateLevel(object oPC)
{
int iLevel = 0;
if ( GetHasFeat(1835, oPC) // Animal Domain Cleric (yep, all 3 of them.)
|| GetHasFeat( 312, oPC)
|| GetHasFeat(1520, oPC))
{
iLevel += GetLevelByClass(CLASS_TYPE_CLERIC, oPC);
}
int iClass = GetLevelByClass(CLASS_TYPE_RANGER, oPC);
if (iClass > 3) iLevel += (iClass - 3);
iLevel += GetLevelByClass(CLASS_TYPE_DRUID, oPC);
iLevel += GetLevelByClass(CLASS_TYPE_PALADIN, oPC); // full Paladin levels
return iLevel;
}
In honor of my ancestor who was a Green man for St Paddy’s day.