SO, in an attempt to get my brother into the game and to get myself back into it, I wanted to make some custom NPC's. My question is, after puring over bunches of source code from other NPC's, how do i even go about doing this? This is my firs post as I joined specifically to ask this question. Any comments will help.
You just have to extract the .xnb files with xnbnode and edit them to your specifications. (Oh, and of course repack them) Look up the Florence or "Flo" character mod. Then create your own character based on that mod. There are multiple files you have to edit, including schedules, dialogues and sprites. But yes, it can be done. Extract them, examine their contents. .yaml is readable in Notepad. There are guides on dialogue editing and everything else stickied to the main page of this thread.
Thanks for responding, so far I've only looked into the AshleyNPC mod and the coding for that is confusing. But I will look into the Flo mod in a bit. I'm super excited.