Open the FCS from Steam.
Create a new mod and name it. For this Guide I am using my RecruitablePrisonsers mod.


The First and most useful thing in the FCS is the Changes panel. From here you can see a list of all changes your mod makes.


By right-clicking on an option you can 'revert' the change. So don't worry about 'breaking something' with your mod (well not so much ;-) ).

There are two ways to add dialogue to a character in Kenshi.
If the charater currently has Zero Dialogue you can use just a straight 'Dialogue'. However if they aready have dialogue or you want to use multiples it is much better to use a Dialogue Package. If you want your dialogue to trigger by a player, then you will also need to use a Dialogue Package.



Let's make a new one.


you don't write your actual dialogue here. Instead let's make a dialogue initaited by the player.


As you can see there are many other options to trigger a dialogue.


Press New Dialogue (unless you wrote one already).


The dialogue panel will come up.

Name your dialogue and check the box if the dialogue can happen between the player and an enemy or not.


Start the dialogue by choosing the Create ROOT button.
Root is the start of a dialogue chain. Child is a possible response.
This decides who is actually saying the line. Remember 'me' means the NPC not the Player.
It is better to start with the NPC but you don't have to.


Right click on the Root line and add a child. From the right info panel choose TARGET_IF_PLAYER to make the Players line.

Players lines always appear red.

Here we can add the acual lines.

From here I'll let the Screenshots do the talking. :-)








Using WORDSWAPS
Word swaps are great for mixing up your dialogue. There are already a ton of them added by the devs. But you can also make your own. Such as the bunch I made for recruiting the BrokenSkeleton.

Next let's look at conditions and effects.

Effects dictate if a line will result in an effect such as joining your squad, attacking or trading.


Conditions are important for setting the limits on when the dialogue or line will happen.
Conditions can be set by line, in the dialogue, or to the whole dialogue in the dialogue package.

It is important to remember that for Y/N conditions 1 = yes & 0 = no. There is also a < & > option which is useful for comparing things such as player money. Meaning a condition of Playermoney > 20000 would mean the line wouldn't appear if the player has less than 20000.

The time dictates how frequently the line can occur. I'm not sure of the exact times but VShort seems to be about 20 (in game) mins.

Conditions on the Dialogue package panel.


In the Dialogue Package panel, if there are player lines, make sure to change 'monologue' to false. If you want the dialogue to be triggerable for enemies make that 'true'. Here you can also adjust the frequency of the whole dialogue as well as limits to character type. You can also make the dialogue locked or unlocked. (More about Locking/Unlocking dialogue in another guide).

If the character already has a dialogue package then you can create your dialogue and press the Add Dialogue button rather than Create.

Finally adding the package to a character that you like.

And last but not least, save and upload (if you want to share).


Finally here is another (video) guide i made to help with editing textures for banners and making tattoos
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=882789616