Summon Pet - Best Practice?

[Legacy_Buddywarrior]

               Creating summoned pets is new to me and I'm not sure what I'm getting myself into. I would like to make a template pet to make several other pets. Because I know so little of the subject, the only question I can think of is what scripts do I need on the pet itself? I'll take any other suggestions and advice though..
Thank you kindly.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_WhiZard]

               

Buddywarrior wrote...

Creating summoned pets is new to me and I'm not sure what I'm getting myself into. I would like to make a template pet to make several other pets. Because I know so little of the subject, the only question I can think of is what scripts do I need on the pet itself? I'll take any other suggestions and advice though..
Thank you kindly.

How do you want your pet?

As an animal companion or familiar: These require 40 templates as well as 2da editing.
As a summon: easiest to accomplish but prevents other summons from being summoned
As another associate (henchman): requires creating an object and using LevelUpHenchman() to get to the needed level. 2da editing would include defining a level up package.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_henesua]

               As far as what AI should run on the pet, I'd copy the animal companion AI scripts, and use them as a base. Or you could download TonyK's AI and use that as a base.

I recently remade Familiars and adjusted the Animal Companions, and this method worked well for me. I rewrote the Bioware AI to enable the kinds of behaviors I wanted.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Buddywarrior]

               @WhiZard - I was just planning on doing a Summon from a unique power.
@Henesua - I'll take a look at TonyK's AI.

Thank you both!