Natural Followers
Natural Followers for RPG Maker MV
Transform your RPG's party members from rigid, predictable followers into lifelike companions with natural movement patterns and behaviors! This plugin enhances the default follower system with realistic spacing, staggering, idle behaviors, and more. This is only for version MV. This does NOT work for MZ or any versions prior to MV.
Features
- Natural spacing between party members with customizable distance
- Subtle side-to-side staggering for a less robotic formation
- Intelligent pathfinding that prevents followers from walking through each other
- Idle behaviors when the party stops moving (spreading out, wandering)
- Occasional random direction changes when stationary
- Smooth teleporting with fade effects when followers get stuck
- "Stay in place" behavior until the player moves a certain distance away
- Toggle option in the game settings to enable/disable natural followers
How to Use
- Add this plugin to your project
- Configure parameters in the plugin settings to adjust follower behaviors
- That's it! The enhanced follower system works automatically
- Players can toggle natural followers on/off in the options menu
Customizable Parameters
- Follower Distance - How many tiles between each follower
- Stagger Amount - How much followers sway side-to-side in formation
- Idle Timer - How long before followers spread out when stopped
- Wander Timer - How long before idle followers begin to wander
- Wander Chance - Probability of movement during wandering
- Idle Move Speed - Movement speed during idle behaviors
- Teleport Distance - Maximum distance before followers teleport to player
- Fade Duration - How long teleport fade effects last
- Follow Radius - Distance before followers begin moving toward player
Terms of Use
- Free for both commercial and non-commercial games
- Credit required: Sette aka yispySOFT
- No reselling or redistributing the plugin
- You may edit for personal use
Version: 1.0.0
- Will update based on feedback
Purchase
Get this tool and 10 more for $4.99 USD
In order to download this tool you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $0.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:
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I've found what I believe is a pretty big bug. It seems that the game stops all further activity if in an event, the "gather followers" command is used. The followers continue wandering on their own, but the player cannot move no matter what.
Thank you for letting me know! I'll look into this and the follower/event collision tomorrow. Been a busy week at work.
Hi. I believe I've fixed those issues. I tested it myself but would appreciate it if you could give me your input as well! Instead of using the Event Command "Gather Followers", try using the Plugin Command provided in the plugin.
I also made it so the followers don't walk through events with graphics. However in crowded spaces, they might just stop walking but will teleport behind you. So in the future I plan to make it so the followers will try to follow the path of the player as priority, and I will try to work on a plugin that allows you to talk to your followers as well. Thank you!
Everything seems to be working as stated, thank you so much for checking it out! Though please only listen to the follower chat request if you truly want to make it; thanks for the consideration anyway.
It's something I definitely want to do as it's pertinent to my game as well. I will report back soon. Take care.
Hi. I made that plugin and will be publishing it tonight most likely and would like to give you a free download voucher. Let me know how I can send this to you and I will send it when I can.
Oh, that's very unexpected, thank you so much! There's a few ways to contact me unless you want to try your luck just leaving it out in the open and hope I use it before someone else does (lol). My email DuskWorks@proton.me or alternatively Twitter DMs @DuskWorks_Ura
Hey, really great and useful plugin! Bought it tonight. ^^ I'm sorry if this is too much to ask, but is there any way to make the followers tangible, and perhaps interactable like an event would be? l was hoping to make the player able to talk to their party members and they'd comment on something about the area. Again sorry if the question is a bit too much for the scope of this product, it's still great.
Thank you very much! And that's a great idea. I definitely know what you mean. You're thinking along the lines of Pokémon Yellow, Suikoden V, etc.
I'm not sure if it's doable, due to events being separate from followers in MV's coding but I can try messing around with it and seeing what I can do.
It'd be amazing if you could, but understandable if it's too much work. Thanks for the consideration ^^
Oh, I should also add that unless there's some setting for it I missed, followers can walk over events
Hi this plugin looks really good, but can i get a video on how it works so that ill be more inclined to buy it?
I can definitely do that for you later today! Thank you for your interest.
Hi. I uploaded the video to the product page for you. I hope this helps!
Hi thank you for the quick reply i appreciate it
No problem! I did the video in a rush, but I should have also included that they will idle when you're stationary. They might look around or step around a bit.
oh thats actually really impressive, and the price is really cheap, again thank you