How IdolNinja Added Aisha and (Non Zombie) Carlos As Homies

Unapologetic Miscreant

Unapologetic Miscreant

This is how Mike added Aisha and Carlos as homies.
I will only be covering Aisha as the method is the same.

Here is a snippet from the Homies.xtbl (GOTR version)
Code: 
<Homie>
        <Name>Aisha</Name>
        <Display_Name>Aisha</Display_Name>
        <_Editor>
            <Category>Entries</Category>
            </_Editor>
        <Vehicles>
            <Vehicle_Entry>
                <Vehicle>car_4dr_luxury01</Vehicle>
                <Vehicle_Variant>Bling</Vehicle_Variant>
                <Weight>100</Weight>
                </Vehicle_Entry>
            </Vehicles>
        <Available_Foley>cell phone</Available_Foley>
        <Not_Available_Foley>group - recruit denied attempt</Not_Available_Foley>
        <Humans>
            <Human>
                <Character>npc_aisha</Character>
                </Human>
            </Humans>
        <Flags>
            </Flags>
        <Image_name>ui_menu_cell_hom_aisha</Image_name>
        <Persona>SP_AISHA</Persona>
        </Homie>

This adds a picture of Aisha <Image_name>ui_menu_cell_hom_aisha</Image_name>
Her persona <Persona>SP_AISHA</Persona>
Her vehicle <Vehicle>car_4dr_luxury01</Vehicle>
with its variant <Vehicle_Variant>Bling</Vehicle_Variant>
and that vehicle's chance of spawning <Weight>100</Weight>

This Display name is the name that shows up in the Homies menu
<Display_Name>Aisha</Display_Name> so if you want to change her name change it here

The Foley entry just refers to which sound will play when she answers your call <Available_Foley>cell phone</Available_Foley>
The above section adds the entry to the phone so that you can call
and ask her to join you, but before you can do that you have to
unlock her character, which you do via the unlockable.xtbl file.

Code: 
<Unlockable>
        <Name>unlock_bh08prison_vehicles</Name>
        <Type>
            <Homie>
                <Name>Aisha</Name>
                </Homie>
            </Type>
        <DisplayName>Aisha</DisplayName>
        <Description>Yeah, we all know she's really dead this time. Call her on your cell phone anyway to have her help you out.</Description>
        <Image_Source>ui_ct_div_cd1</Image_Source>
        <_Editor>
            <Category>Entries:Missions</Category>
            </_Editor>
        <Event_Text>Gentlemen of the Row Special Mission 1</Event_Text>
        <Category>Homies</Category>
        <Pause_Menu_Label>Aisha</Pause_Menu_Label>
        </Unlockable>

I am not certain why Mike named the Unlockable the way he did
<Name>unlock_bh08prison_vehicles</Name>
but it is the Aisha unlock.

Note: Section On Adding Your Own Homie removed.
 
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that's awesome! out of curiousity, do you think it's possible to spawn specific NPCs to make them your homies? like pedestrians...
I picture gang members may be a problem since SR3 actively check for your team affliation (as in using Sandbox++, where if you "defect" from Saints, Saints homies (Shaundi, Kinzie etc..) will immediately leave your team), so I assume you can't like call Jyunichi with this method unless another entry is made with him being set to the Saints team
 
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I'm actually in the process of testing that very thing. Once I have the answers I'll add it to the post.

As for the team affiliation you are correct. I attempted to unlock Donnie as a homie (an old mod request) and ran right into the rival gang issue. I'm going to attempt to reset his affiliation and see if that messes up his mission behavior.
 
reina3 said:
that's awesome! out of curiousity, do you think it's possible to spawn specific NPCs to make them your homies? like pedestrians...
I picture gang members may be a problem since SR3 actively check for your team affliation, so I assume you can't like call Jyunichi with this method unless another entry is made with him being set to the Saints team
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The best way to make an enemy team NPC a homie would be to edit one of the "homie" preset files (Eg; "npc_homie_troy_pre.xtbl") and change the <Character> to npc_jyunichi.
In homies.xtbl, "<Character>" is actually the name of the NPC Preset file ("_pre"), not the Character file ("_cha"). So with Aisha and Carlos, IdolNinja used their actual Preset files, instead of a "homie" Preset file, since all the "homie" preset files are already used for the other Homies.
I haven't tested this, but I remember IdolNinja saying on the GotR stream that you could have three NPCs turn up for one homie call. There's a leftover TableTemplate at the bottom of the file set up for that.
 
When trying to add Donnie as a homie I did set Donnie's team affiliation from Brotherhood to Playas in the npc_donnie_pre.xtbl but he would ever show up when called.
Same thing with Samson except that his original team was civilians.

It is more than possible that I've gotten something wrong or that I missed something.
Npcs are more -SeaboundSaint-'s area of expertise than mine.
 
Unapologetic Miscreant said:
When trying to add Donnie as a homie I did set Donnie's team affiliation from Brotherhood to Playas in the npc_donnie_pre.xtbl but he would ever show up when called.
Same thing with Samson except that his original team was civilians.

It is more than possible that I've gotten something wrong or that I missed something.
Npcs are more -SeaboundSaint-'s area of expertise than mine.
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Donnie works fine for me when replacing npc_homie_gat. (see attached file.)

Donnie's Preset file (npc_donnie_pre.xtbl) even has him on the Playa's Team. Likely because he's planting bombs for you in the first mission he appears in. He does have another Preset file though (npc_donnie_BH.xtbl), which is on the Brotherhood's Team.
 

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