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I guess you need the NIF tools for blender and maybe you should read these tutorials: http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=4941 http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11854 And don't worry, it works the very same way for NV, too.

I'm one of 'em.

I understand that you can't include all aspects. And I guess that's not too bad. If you can't include a crime system rightaway, then you might add it in a patch or something. Well, good luck with the mod, keep me up to date, please. I really hope you finish this one, I'd reinstall F3 for it! ;)

I do read your posts and I usually read them twice. Not much to add right now, sounds great to me. Would you mind to explain this one a little further? I think you should at least include some shops. Whether it's a complete market area or just some little shops here and there. Also don't forget the blackmarket, in each and every population there is people who sell the things you shouldn't be selling (e.g. chems). Maybe if the player doesn't assign enough guards, people will start selling drugs and weaponry, which decreases the vaults efficiency. As soon as that the player assigns more guards they get the situation under control and drug dealers vanish. Now it's the players choice whether he wants a "bad population" or a "good population". To be quite honest, if I was the lone wanderer and I had a vault to populate, I'd manage it Paradise Falls style! ;) I don't expect you to include a whole "bad karma"-storyline, but I would like to have the choice to be evil sometimes (and I am sure so do many around here!).

Okay, that means the value does not get resetted properly. If you use a button instead of a terminal now, just put the following script on the button. scn Whatevernamethisscriptmighthave short doonce float timer begin onactivate if ( doonce == 0 ) set doonce to 1 set NpcControlQuest.NpcDelete to 1 set timer to 5 endif end begin gamemode if ( doonce == 1 ) if ( timer > 0 ) set timer to ( timer - getsecondspassed ) else set doonce to 0 set NpcControlQuest.NpcDelete to 0 endif endif end This will do the job by first deleting all the NPCs and after 5 seconds resetting the value so that you may spawn new NPCs. It's for a button or switch and not for a terminal though.

Haven't had that problem. Mind to upload a screenshot?

I guess there are SDKs for certain multiplayer games, like BF2 and CSS. Still, I am certain that the GECK is the most advanced SDK on terms of user-friendliness. :P

Wow! Alright, now I understand the whole thing. Sounds great to me! Well, I guess you can have so many quests with bringing the vault's systems back online! Really, if you have the time to do it, then complete this mod. Unfortunately I switched to NV a while ago, so I'm not in the position to really participate in any F3 mods. But, if you need certain scripts for certain situations, give me a hint and I'll try to help you out. If you have any questions concerning one of the topics (scripting, npc, perk, missions) you mentioned, PM me. I might be able to help you! Anyway, your story does sound like a great plot and I really hope that you don't loose interest in the project soon.

Hi, I've read your story again and I find that it has great potential. When I imagine Stacey, the mysterious mainframe of the Vault, the Red Queen comes to my mind. That's the mainframe of the Hive in Resident Evil (the movie). Other than one might believe in the beginning of the movie, the Red Queen is not hostile. She just wanted to ensure that the virus would never spread throughout the world, thus killing the inhabitants of the Hive and sealing the doors shut. Well, Stacey does not face the problem of a spreading T-Virus or anything, but she still is in charge of the vault, right? I find it scary to enter a vault, deep underground, where an unpredictable AI is in control and able to bury you alive forever. To be quite honest, this scenario of an empty vault with only the intercom to speak to will make you paranoid and watch out for dangers all the time. It's going to be fun! So, your setup is great. Alright, then there's only one question left: What is the player's task? Is it just exploring? Or is there something more specific (like leading an expedition of scientists into the vault)? I always like stories, where your actions determine the result. More precisely, if there were two groups of NPCs, one group is maybe an Enclave Taskforce and they just want the weaponry and technology to use it in their war against the BoS and the other group wants to explore the vault, trying to figure out what happened down there and what's the deal with Stacey. The player might support either group... Do you have an idea on what the player's specific task is?

Well, if you have a .fomod, then you'll use the "Add Fomod" function. If you have an archive, then you'll use the "Add Archive" function. Create a new fomod, then add the archive and bäm, if that archive's meant to be imported into FOMM, it'll work.

Well, there are no similar tools to the GECK. The GECK is the GECK and therefore unique. Even the CS from Oblivion is no match for the GECK, if you ask me. But you might find tools that allow you to mod different games, too. There is a SDK for 2worlds, but that one isn't exactly what you are used to from the GECK. With enough knowledge it's even possible to mod World of Warcraft. Only on private servers, though, and it's kind of illegal. So you won't get information on that in a public forum here on the nexus, I guess. Anyway, you better stay with the GECK and the CS, if you want to keep things simple.

Alright, that was what i feared would happen. Hmm, lets try something: Alter the scripts to the following: Quest Script: scn NpcControlQuestSCRIPT short NpcDelete begin gamemode if ( NpcDelete == 1 ) set NpcDelete to 0 endif end NPC Script begin gamemode if ( NpcControlQuest.NpcDelete == 1 ) disable markfordelete endif end You don't need to change the terminal command at all. Okay, and in addition to this, change the script delay of your controlquest in the quest tab to something like 5 seconds. In the previous version the first NPC would delete itself and then reset the NpcDelete-value to 0, causing the other NPCs to not delete themselves (because the value was 0 again). Now I put the reset-thingy into the quest script, due to the script delay of 5 seconds it will only check whether the value is 1 once every 5 seconds, giving all the NPCs the time to delete themselves. This is not the most elegant way, I'll write a better script with timer involved later. Glad that I could help you.

Well, that is pretty wired. Why can't you load them? You should always be able to load the FalloutNV.esm... at least if you disabled the "multiple masterfiles loaded" error thingy... Anyway, if you describe your problem more precisely, we might be able to help you better.

Forget it. The coc command is a console-only command. It is not to be used in the GECK. Place an XMarker at the location you want the player to be transported and give it a reference name. Then use the .moveto X command instead of the coc command, while X represents the name of the XMarker. It's the safest way of teleporting.

Alright, your story sounds great to me. I'll give you more feedback tomorrow, then I'll have enough time to work through your plot. To awnser your question: I always prefer to only use the Fallout.esm. But, if you consider it necessary to use FOOK2, then do so. You just have to inform the people about it, so that they know that your mod needs FOOK2 to run. And about your texture "problem": As far as I understood your GECK displays certain items with the FOOK2 texture, although you didn't even select the FOOK2 data, right? That is no problem at all. The game picks the texture available at the location it should be, if a different player has a different texture for the vanilla object, the game will display the object with his texture instead of the FOOK2 texture. Or if a player doesn't have any texture mods at all, well then the game will display the objects with the vanilla texture. This only works with vanilla objects, of course. If you use meshes from FOOK2, then you'll have to ensure that all players of your mod have these textures, otherwise it'll give them errors.

Alright, so here's what I'd do. Might not be the most elegant way, but whatever, it should work just fine. Create a new quest, e.g. "NpcControlQuest". Create a new script, set it to "Quest Script": scn NpcControlQuestSCRIPT short NpcDelete Now save it, go back to the Quest you've created before and set the Script to the Quest's Questscript. So basically, this script just defines the variable "NpcDelete", but it doesn't do anything with it. It's just necessary to define all variables used. Now open the script that you've put onto your NPCs (that one with the begin ondeath) and add the following somewhere above the begin ondeath line: begin gamemode if ( NpcControlQuest.NpcDelete == 1 ) disable markfordelete set NpcControlQuest.NpcDelete to 0 endif end Alright, so what this does is that as soon as that the var NpcDelete is set to 1, it will disable and delete the NPC + set the Var to 0. Once the var is set to 1, this script will run in all your NPCs, deleting them. After that, the variable is set to 0, which then ensures that newly placed NPCs don't get deleted right away. Now, all you need to do is to change the Terminal script. So add the line set NpcControlQuest.NpcDelete to 1 to the terminal option. Something like "Delete all NPCs" or whatever your name for that may be. Alright, I'm quite sure this works, if it doesn't then there is some minor mistake with addressing the variables properly, I'll fix that tomorrow. I don't have access to a GECK right now, so I made that up without really testing itl. It's the best you can get from me right now. But as said, tomorrow I'll have a GECK at hand and then I'll fix any errors occuring. Hope this helped.

Well, how do you place the NPCs? Do you use .placeatme? And just as a side note: never use numbers or symbols at the beginning of reference names. The scripting engine hates 'em.

Depends, if the model is the same in both games, then they work. If not, then not. But basically it's possible to use some F3 texture mods in NV!

I'm not a hundred percent sure, but I doubt that this works. If you address a parent ref with anything else then .enable or .disable it does not immediately affect all the children. More precisely, with your setup, if I call .kill on the parent ref, the children won't be affected by this. So I guess .enable/.disable has a somewhat special status concerning parenting. I'll figure that out tomorrow. Quite an interesting question, though. But it reminds me of the reasons for NOT using ".placeatme"... The only occasions I use .placeatme is for fighting sequences, to spawn enemies... but then I just drop a tiny script on each of them, like this: begin ondeath disable markfordelete end Works fine for me! ;) Edit: Yeah, the "npcX" is just any name. Could be "StupidName102" or anything. (Except for names starting with numbers, the scripting engine doesn't really like those...)

Looks fine. I'd adjust the color of the muzzle, though. I think the white doesn't fit.. Give it a somewhat used look... But else than this, there is nothing to complain about. *thumbs up*!

Well, if you know which cell it is in, then just go to the Cell Window and make it sort all objects in that cell by name. Then look for the DLC04LighthouseFXMarker and doubleclick it, your Render Window should jump to it. If you don't know which cell it is in, then try CTRL + F, not quite sure whether you can search for specific references there... anyway, use the first method and check the cells around the lighthouse... with a little luck you'll find it. Sorry, it's the only way I know of.

It's definitely not the mod's version. 090 works just fine for me. Standard question: is FOSE installed correctly? Download and install the newest version of the script extender here: http://fose.silverlock.org/

Well, it's a nice model. And nice texture. All in all, good work on the gun itself. Since you asked... you might want to think about your damage output again. You seem to enjoy running into several enemies, gunning them down one after another, without tactic or anything. That's what I call: gameplay fail. This is not meant to be offensive, but seriously: over 200 DPS is FAR to much. Are you aware, that this tops the minigun's damage? It's a nice model, really, but I'd suggest you cut the damage a lot.... Thumbs up anyway ;)

Sounds like a texture error to me... These ! are being placed by the game if a texture on some object is missing. Maybe you mixed some files up while installing your mods? Check if all the .bsa files are in the right place (that would be /NewVegas/data). You should have a file called something with texture. If you don't, well, then reinstall the game. Also important to know: do these ! only appear on certain NPCs or on all NPCs? If it's only on certain NPCs then it's more likely to be a problem with your mods textures than with the vanilla game textures. Edit: Eh, yeah, messed that up. Sorry. rickerhk is right. It's the meshes, not the textures. : )

This would work perfectly, if you had a limited quantity of NPCs of which you just decide which ones to be active and which ones not to be active. As far as I understood, you are "spawning" NPCs, so you're using the .placeatme command. If that is so, then you should not only disable you NPCs but also mark them for delete, this helps keeping your savegames small in size and is the more elegant way of disposing NPCs. (Well, actually it's the only way of really disposing them!) So, I would suggest: npcY.disable npcY.markfordelete npcX.disable npcX.markfordelete and so on. This actually is quite important on terms of performance... Check this out, too: http://geck.bethsoft...p/MarkForDelete