Develop Pre-War photographs

[pra]

In Tales from the Commonwealth, there is this NPC talking about old cameras containing pre-war photos, which you could develop. You get to develop one photo during a quest she gives, but that's all.

 

I was thinking: this could be done as a standalone mod where you basically can craft collectible pictures.

Cameras get a new item in their scrap recipe, "Photo Film". Or alternatively you can "use" the camera (can you even do that?) and get one "Photo Film" and one "Empty Camera".

 

With the film, you go to a new crafting bench, something like "Photo development machine". There you can craft one film into one or more photos, or none. Now I'm not sure if this is even possible to do this using the crafting mechanics to vary the amount of items you get. Maybe something like: the machine has a container, you put films in it, press a button, and the films get replaced with photos.

 

Now the photos are basically just magazines. You can place them into a magazine rack, or just sell them. Or hang them on your wall, using a "Picture Frame", which is basically just a magazine rack with exactly one slot. If that works, it could be improved by adding some sort of a magnet/pin board where you can place multiple photos. If they end up somewhat crooked, even better.

 

Some photos could be more common, with the rarer ones be more expensive. Some could be unique and give the player some unique perks or something (check if the player has the perk on production, if yes, do not generate any more instances of that picture)

 

The most problematic part would probably be getting enough fitting images. I guess some screenshots from pre-war scenes could be used, maybe also parts of concept art or trailers. Maybe there also are public domain photographs from the 50s/60s, like these music tracks on Diamond City Radio.

[MightyZ0G]

you could probably get away with adding the recipe to the chem station. after all, developing film involves a lot of chemicals.

 

as for pre-war photos, you could use some of mods that restore areas of Boston and the clean pre war clothes to set up scenes to photograph.

you might even find that some of the restored Boston mod authors give you permission to use their screenshots with full credit given and a link back to their mod :wink:

 

for taking new photos, the problem is getting a screenshot into the correct format and then putting it onto an object while the game is running.

which is a shame, because photographic paper could be made from silver and fertilizer (to make silver nitrate which is the first stage in getting silver halide for photographic paper) and cloth or rolled Boston Bugles

Edited July 31, 2017 by mighty zog