Wednesday, 1 May 2013

Lamp Follower


You can download the file here: LampFollower.7z

EDIT: I added a new version with walking sound from the movie. The links are at the bottom.


Izzy asked me to make a lamp follower similar to the one in the movie Spirited Away.  I thought it was a great idea. I didn't know how I would do this, but still wanted to make it. First thing I tried was to make a model for it. I wanted something that looked stranger than just a pole with a lamp attached to it so I started with a foot and build a from that.  It didn't look very good but was still good enough for a prototype and to try make an NPC with it.

My first attempt was to copy an actual NPC, but then I had a lamp that greeted me, ate bread and died in battle. I didn't want that so I looked inside Eternal Bunny Pet to see how to do the same. I was surprised to discover that it was actually quite simple and I could get a following lamp in less than an hour. The hardest part was to make it cast light. I had to play around with magic effect, lights and enchantment until I finally manage to get everything work after looking how wearable lantern worked.

Then all I needed was a better looking model. I tried making something closer to the lamp in the movie with a hand instead of a foot but it looked really dumb in game because of the way it moved around. So I went back with my first idea of using a foot but made a much better looking pole. I'm not very good with textures in general and especially not with anything metallic so I just did something very simple. I think it still looks pretty good in game though.

Since I used Eternal Bunny Pet as a guide, it function the same way. After activating the mod, you just have to teleport somewhere a first time and your lamp will arrive and follow you everywhere possible. It's compatible with every other followers and even Eternal Bunny Pet.

To install simply copy Lamp.esp, Meshes and Textures folder to you Skyrim\data\

If you have any of the DLCs use the esp from the corresponding folder.
Lamp - Dawnguard if you only have Dawnguard
Lamp - Dragonborn if you only have Dragonborn
Lamp - Dawnguard + Dragonborn if you have both DLC.
This is to make factions from each DLC friendly with the lamp so they don't pay attention to it.
I didn't make one for Heartfire because I don't have it.

To uninstall, deactivate Lamp.esp and delete the folders
Skyrim\Data\Meshes\Actors\Lamp
Skyrim\Data\Textures\Actors\Lamp


If you want a version with the walking sound from the movie, you can download this version instead.
LampFollower_v2.7z




Enjoy!


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68 comments:

  1. Anonymous1 May 2013 at 14:49

    Hai, rather than a foot do you think a cute hiking boot would be better?

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    1. Haishao1 May 2013 at 23:27

      A few people mentioned adding a boot or shoe on Dragonporn too.
      I will try to find something cute.

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    2. Anonymous9 June 2013 at 07:20

      how about firefly with wider light range :)

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  2. Anonymous1 May 2013 at 15:02

    There is something rather unnerving about this...

    I like it!

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  3. Anonymous2 May 2013 at 08:47

    This is a cool mod. I'd like to go with the goggles. Know where can i get them

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    1. Anonymous2 May 2013 at 08:54

      http://dragonporn.ldblog.jp/archives/6806027.html

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  4. Anantekyan2 June 2013 at 17:42

    mine wont work. i did everything! but the lamp wont appear!

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    1. Haishao2 June 2013 at 23:03

      Teleporting a few time should make the lamp appear. I don't know of anything that could prevent it to come find you unless you're in an area where followers cannot go.

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    2. Unknown2 March 2015 at 13:04

      I think if you have the Hearthfire DLC it won't work...
      I have the same problem...

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    3. Anonymous28 April 2016 at 10:18

      You could try spawning it in with the console command ´placeatme´. just be sure to use ´help lamp´ or whatever to find out the lamp´s ID

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  5. Unknown3 June 2013 at 18:56

    I have a suggestion. The players can tell it to wait (tap activate), or go away (hold activate), and have it come back three days later.

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    1. Haishao3 June 2013 at 20:15

      I'm not too sure how to do this and keep the lamp silent. When I tried to make it like a normal follower at first, it kept insulting me every time with throw voice sound. I would also love to put it away sometime because I already have a rabbit following me everywhere and a having both is sometime annoying but scripting really isn't my strength. If I find out how to do such a thing, I will try to.

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  6. Anonymous8 June 2013 at 04:03

    Reminds me of the lamp in Spirited Away

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    1. Anonymous13 November 2013 at 23:54

      it's based in the lamp in Spirited away...

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  7. Anonymous26 September 2013 at 00:55

    lamp is awsome:) thank you!
    have it always with me..sooo much better then a torch
    im not a sneaky kind anyway..always could appreciate the light

    keep up the great work...cheers

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  8. Anonymous1 October 2013 at 03:39

    Wow, this is an amazingly cute mod! Thank you!

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  9. Anonymous4 October 2013 at 00:35

    Lamp is COOL!!

    Is the girl in the Hat a follower?
    is there a way I can have her in my game?

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  10. Anonymous4 November 2013 at 11:58

    mine wont work !!!! iv teleported place to place and the lamp havent come

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    1. Unknown2 March 2015 at 13:03

      I think if you have the Hearthfire DLC it won't work...
      I have the same problem...

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  11. Anonymous8 November 2013 at 21:53

    What should I do if my lamp doesn't make any of the cute noises? :(

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    1. Haishao8 November 2013 at 22:10

      Did you install the cute noise version? The sound isn't very loud but it should definitely play when the lamp is walking around.

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    2. Anonymous8 November 2013 at 22:43

      Same person here: I'm using the Lamp.esp for the Dawnguard+Dragonborn since I have those expansion packs. I also doubled checked that the other six files were in the correct spots in meshes and textures. I also put all the audio sliders to max in game. :(

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    3. Anonymous8 November 2013 at 22:44

      Ohh! the link all the way at the bottom. I'll try that right now :D

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    4. Haishao8 November 2013 at 22:45

      There should also be a Sound folder in this version https://mega.co.nz/#!WtJjEbjK!OUBZo16kQ-mQXRglb7IERkUCBgZcAtCBgXLzVVbsFOQ

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    5. Haishao8 November 2013 at 22:47

      :)

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    6. Anonymous8 November 2013 at 22:53

      It's working now! My ovaries are exploding from the cuteness :3 Thank you so much for this mod.

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  12. Anonymous11 November 2013 at 21:53

    7zip says that the 2.7 archive has an unsupported compression method. is there a different program i should use, or is it the archive itself?

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    1. Haishao11 November 2013 at 22:19

      I just tried downloading it and it worked. There was maybe an error when you downloaded the file. You should try to get it again. I think winrar can open them too but it often make errors.

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    2. Anonymous11 November 2013 at 22:30

      This comment has been removed by the author.

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    3. Anonymous11 November 2013 at 22:52

      okay nevermind, i got it to work. i used winrar instead of 7zip. anyways, thanks for the great mod and support :D

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    4. Haishao12 November 2013 at 00:19

      Oh good. Usually people report having problem opening 7z archives with winrar and I tell them to use 7zip instead. Funny that you had the opposite result

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  13. Anonymous13 November 2013 at 16:07

    Same problem but I had a really old 7zip. Works fine with latest 7zip

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    1. Anonymous13 November 2013 at 16:10

      And that was a reply on musegravemind but I didn't get what I wanted

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  14. Anonymous20 November 2013 at 20:32

    Haishao,

    Can you please make your a Follower of the girl in the photo and video
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZtwCE03C6c

    Or can you please describe race/armor/skins etc, to able to create similar

    Thanks

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    1. Haishao25 November 2013 at 06:57

      I only have remnant of her left. I did a mistake and overwrite over my cme saves without backup. I'm trying to recreate her but it's hard. She never look right. She's a ygnord from ECE and she used a mix of SG and Univision Textures. Her clothes is a mash up I put together for her with some vanilla and tera outfits and a hat I made myself. I was going to release the hat but then I learned a better way to make much better one so I'll remake it first.

      I'll probably make her a follower eventually if I manage to recreate her like she used to be. Right now I don't spend much time in game because I'm working on other stuff for some people but when I go back I'll try my best to remake her.

      Sorry for reply delay. I wasn't home the last few days.

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  15. Anonymous7 December 2013 at 17:21

    thanks for you reply Haishao,
    ie... Girl in the hat
    Love your work! :)

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  16. Unknown30 December 2013 at 16:30

    is the lamp bound to a follower postion or is it just there? i put the dragonborn+dawnguard .esp and put it in the two folders needed and placed it with the rest of my mods and activated it my data files but it wont show up.

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    1. Haishao30 December 2013 at 22:53

      It's just there. It's a NPC with following ai only. Sometime you need to teleport to a few exterior place to have it show up. I'm trying to find a way to have a summon/dismiss spell for it. Or a menu to dismiss it, but without voice.

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  17. Unknown2 January 2014 at 18:19

    im having trouble finding the lamp i put the files in what i assume was the right place bases on ur description but theirs no lamp , do i have to go to a specific place or wat

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    1. Haishao5 January 2014 at 19:55

      The lamp should normally appears after you teleport somewhere in a exterior cell. Sometime its slower than other and require you teleport 2 or 3 time.

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  18. Anonymous23 January 2014 at 14:04

    Thanks so much for creating this! I saw it in the background in some YouTube video about some other mods, and had to find it.

    I love Lamp. He installed cleanly, he's cute (more so, kimo-kawaii), casts a lovely glow everywhere I go (great for screenshots), and even though I play as a mage-assassin, it appears he doesn't give me away at all — BEST.

    P.S. is it coded to be "silent"? That is, are NPCs even aware of it, other than spatially? (I see they have to walk around it) I can't tell, because nothing happens if I get closer to the light (I stay undetected). But I'm low-level right now so I keep being spotted anyway, due to sneak skill being low.

    Just wondering if it will sabotage more advanced sneaking later (like back-stabbing, etc.)

    Thanks again!

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    1. Anonymous25 January 2014 at 16:53

      Nevermind, figured this out in game. I've gone up a few levels (into the 20s). Lamp keeps being spotted! Especially by mages; they HATE him. They keep attacking him, and he doesn't die. It's hilarious. But, I'm always concerned that *I* will be detected as well, since he's so close.

      Thing is, this never happened before, at lower levels. I'm wondering if it's *only* mages who see him? Or, if it's a recent problem: I had to reset my SkyrimPrefs.ini to fix something else, and noticed this happening afterwards. However, I'd been fighting mostly undead & creatures before, so can't be sure it's that. Will report back, I guess.

      I also checked Lamp's sneak level in the console, for kicks. Apparently 115?

      I wonder if there's a way to make him undetectable, either as a supplementary mod, or a console fix?

      Hope my "experimenting' might be useful to other stealth players, also. I know most usually prefer not to have any sort of follower, but at the same time it's really nice to have him around in dark dungeons -- not only for the lighting, but companionship & humor as well.

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    2. Unknown25 January 2014 at 20:04

      Strange that it get detected. Maybe it was something in patch 1.9? We were still on version 1.8 when I created this. I added him into every factions so that he's friend with everyone and gets ignored but it seems something might have changed. I'll have to look into it.

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    3. Anonymous27 January 2014 at 14:18

      Thanks for replying!

      I've gone around to more hostile areas now, and they definitely see him every time. They don't detect ME at all, so it makes sneak-play feasible so long as I stay far enough away from Lamp that spells and weapons don't hit me. It's actually kind of nice, because he acts as a tank -- they keep attacking the invincible Lamp while I stay in the shadows and pick them off. Actually, makes it feel a bit cheat-y. Too funny, but definitely not good for a true stealth experience. Especially messes with illusion: casting fury, etc. makes everybody attack Lamp (as well as each other).

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    4. Anonymous29 January 2014 at 13:37

      By the way, have you seen the Dwarven Luggage mod?
      http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/18155/?

      I think it's coded differently from Lamp; it appears to be based on a humanoid follower. Just guessing, based on interactions / behaviors. However, just wanted to mention it to you in case it might be helpful, if you're still working on Lamp. The Luggage has some options like "stay here", "follow me", and "go back to..."; saw some people ask for those, up top. "Stay here" is especially for sneaking, too.

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  19. Unknown28 January 2014 at 00:07

    I've been having trouble installing this mod. I downloaded skyrim using steam and so the file you said to put it in doesn't exist...either steam hid it somewhere or something but there is no skyrim\data. Maybe I'm just stupid. But do you think you can help me?

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    1. Anonymous29 January 2014 at 13:31

      I'm not the creator, but have you tried using Nexus Mod Manager to import and install the file for you? It's much easier to manage mods using that software rather than trying to keep track of everything manually. Steam should be no issue.

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    2. Anonymous5 August 2014 at 10:01

      I'm not the creator, me too but I installed it manually, check that you have the correct version is different if you use the DLC or not, and is an excellent mods to merge if you want to do a Merge file.

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  20. Anonymous26 March 2014 at 21:52

    I looked this up after seeing it show up following around the reviewer's character in all those MMOxReview youtube videos! It's a good idea certainly!

    The only thing I'd like to see is the ability to say "stay" or "follow" so it can be left behind temporarily. This is mostly because of Skyrim's tendency to flicker shadows when a surface it lit by more than four light sources; the engine randomly drops some of the lighting sources so if you have another light source in many interiors everything flickers.

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  21. Anonymous12 May 2014 at 03:11

    My lamp has a tint of purple/pinkish D: please help.

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  22. Anonymous5 August 2014 at 09:54

    Thanks for a very nice mods that I have used for a long time though it irritates me often because of Lamp follows very often in my way in confined spaces and at the doors, and I can not get through, it ends with that I use TCL to able to get through, so I have many time meant to remove it, but ends with that I did not do it for has not the heart to do it so it will stay there even it irritates me time to time.

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  23. Unknown1 December 2014 at 20:10

    The lamp doesnt show up for me.. WHY??

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  24. Anonymous9 December 2014 at 21:05

    Cool going to try this.
    Tx for making!

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  25. Anonymous9 January 2015 at 23:12

    I've been looking for this mod for some time now having seen it on one of those Skyrim Mod Review YouTube channels. I love the version with sound and all in all it is what I was looking for in a unique light source BUT, I feel it would be even more helpful if there was some level of control over what it does and when. I wanted to talk to it to see if it would follow Vilja instead of me for awhile, but no go. I tried to use MIND control from EFF and switched to the menu mode that I never use just to see if I could tell it to wait. No go. So.....unless you plan to update it some time soon, I guess I'll crack your esp open in the CK and see how I can allow it to become a full fledged follower....like an animal follower or something. Just my 2cp and thank you so much for sharing such a wonderful, inventive and uniquely wonderful mod.

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  26. Anonymous4 February 2015 at 06:25

    Where do i find the lamp in game

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  27. Anonymous14 April 2015 at 21:20

    I sort of wish we could tell the lamp to wait, or use it with follower mods so that it could just be chilling around my home when I didn't want it following me.

    But I first tried this mod with an Argonian alchemist character who was hanging around Morthal. So, because Morthal has this sort of spiritual presence thing going on, I thought of the Lamp as a benevolent spirit that decided to hang around my character after all the good they had done. Kind of makes it more endearing when you get annoyed by the inanimate object tailing you to Sovngarde and back.

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  28. Anonymous22 April 2015 at 13:28

    haishao, your mods KICK ASS.

    Come back to us.. we miss you, please continue to make new mods for us...

    hey I asked long ago, but maybe you have found it or made a new one..
    I wanna see the girl in this mod as a follower! she is mighty cute and would be cool to see her doing some seriously cool mage stuff.. she is MAGIC!!!!!!!!!!!! :) hahaha

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  29. Samantha6 April 2016 at 04:10

    hello! I was wondering if i could please have your permission to use your unique package set up in another follower mod? this is my mod and i wanted to have them act like your lamp does http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/63315/? thank you!

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  30. Anonymous12 June 2016 at 06:52

    Is the follower still available? The only download link was the second send space but my computer reported a virus :/

    Thanks

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  31. Unknown23 July 2016 at 19:47

    so i just got a new pc and am trying to download all my mods for skyrim again. Unfortunately the links are not allowing me to download this mod :/

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  32. Unknown10 September 2016 at 19:59

    all of the links are down~!

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    1. Unknown10 September 2016 at 20:00

      please fix it, i can't live without this follower~!

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    2. Unknown10 September 2016 at 20:00

      please fix it, i can't live without this follower~!

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  33. Anonymous20 November 2016 at 00:20

    It's gone! =(

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  34. Braden Carroll29 March 2017 at 09:42

    Thanks for this amazing and interesting post,.
    color scanner

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  35. Unknown7 July 2017 at 20:26

    i just tried to install it onto Skyrim SE, and it seems like it doesn't load the mesh... Any idea why?

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    1. LPerseveres12 December 2017 at 13:53

      SE has all the dlc and this doesnt have an esp file for hearthfire. At least that would be my guess.

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    2. Danie19 December 2017 at 09:14

      I have made a working port for Skyrim SE. With the creator's permission I would upload it.

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