ElijahHouck
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Hi there!
For a quest I am implementing, I would like to have a specific loot item appear in any instance of a specific Container. For example, say I have this container:
zzzRaiderContainer_LargeRed_01
This container has 10 instances, spread throughout the world. Normally this would contain a standard raider loot set. However, during a specific quest, I want any zzzRaiderContainer_LargeRed_01 container to ALSO contain a specific item, zzzSpecialRaiderQuestItem01.
Is there a way to accomplish this? It doesn't seem leveled lists allow for conditional loot. I'm not sure if this is something the Story Manager can help with, as I've not touched it in a while. My only thought is that perhaps I could have a script attached to the Container form that calls AddItem in an OnLoad event for the container if we're at the correct quest step, but I'd like to hear if anyone else has other ideas.
Thanks! :)
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Hello again! Today we have an exciting new update for our story-driven new world modification for Fallout 4: A Tale of Jo, Liz, and a Better World. Today, we're sharing a gameplay demo, featuring a quest about a third of the way into our story. We're all very excited to pull back the curtain on the story and world a bit more, and we all sincerely hope that you enjoy!
As a quick recap:
A Better World tells the story of two women on the run from the Institute: Jo and Liz, and their mission to create a better, safer world. After three years of relative safety, their past has caught up with them: they find themselves hunted by retention synths and a rogue, ruthless courser, with everything they’ve worked to build at stake. To support this story, A Better World features a dual setting split between the vast wilderness of Abbot County and the derelict ruins of an underground pre-war shopping center called Vault-Tec Plaza.
We're also always looking to expand our small, experienced team! If you want to contribute to A Better World, you can check out our recruitment video for more information.
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Hi everyone! A year ago, we announced a big, story-driven new world modification for Fallout 4: A Tale of Jo, Liz, and a Better World. Today, we’d like to share more details and our latest progress in our exciting new development update video.
A Better World tells the story of two women on the run from the Institute: Jo and Liz, and their mission to create a better, safer world. After three years of relative safety, their past has caught up with them: they find themselves hunted by retention synths and a rogue, ruthless courser, with everything they’ve worked to build at stake. To support this story, A Better World features a dual setting split between the vast wilderness of Abbot County and the derelict ruins of an underground pre-war shopping center called Vault-Tec Plaza.
In other news – we’re also looking to expand our small, highly-experienced team! We are currently looking to fill three roles: a Prop Artist, a Character Artist, and a Quest Designer.
Join our Discord to keep up with updates, or apply for a position on our team: https://discord.gg/hsRaBTNF6R
Prop Artist
For the prop artist role, we’re looking for someone who can create new assets for us to clutter the world with. This could be things such as mason jars, fences, food objects, and other props you would find lying around the wilds of Abbot County and the buried ruins beneath.
You would be proficient in the high to low poly workflow, texturing, working with tiling materials, optimization and how to get your work into the Creation Kit.
Character Artist
The character artist role will be key in defining the look of the characters that inhabit the settlements, homesteads, and wilderness of Abbot County. This includes creating new clothes and armor sets, as well as a few custom animals.
You will need to know the high to low poly workflow, optimization, rigging, texturing and be comfortable getting your work into the Creation Kit.
Quest Designer
For the quest designer role, we are looking for someone with an eye for fun and challenge within the framework of Fallout 4’s gameplay systems.
You would be comfortable designing your quest’s gameplay spaces in both the interior and exterior worlds, be familiar with working in Papyrus to script your quest’s behavior from start to finish, as well as handle other technical tasks such as setting up navmesh for your quest AI to utilize.
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Hello, I've tried a million different hosting sites, different resolutions and filetypes on my photos, but nothing I've tried has let me upload images in my signature. This is the BBCode I'm trying to use:
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And this is the error I'm getting:
Could I get some help figuring out what's going wrong here?
And as proof the BBCode actually works:
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Hello! I've been using the official Bethesda plugin for 3ds Max 2013 for a few years now without issue, but one area that I haven't been able to figure out is how to create meshes that utilize texture scrolling (like the cloud meshes, scrolling whitewater textures, etc.).
Anyone have any experience in this area? Would love any information on how to export something like this into the game.
Thanks!
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i actually just found out about this project and i'm so excited and curious! man my eyes went wide when i saw that you were the same person who created alton for fallout 3. is abbot county a real place somewhere, or based off a real place somewhere?
Thanks NohrScum! Abbot County is a fictional location, but the landscapes are largely inspired by some of my favorite places throughout the world. For instance, the creek at 1:14 is inspired by a set of waterfalls and creeks that I grew up exploring near Alton.
Long story short, I spent so many years recreating a real-life location with Alton that it's a nice break to make something original! There will of course be story explanations for why this location exists, but I'm saving the story details for a bit later on.
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Thanks for the kind words everyone!
Here's a super WIP screenshot of what I'm working on today. The idea is that a cascading river has carved its way through a pre-war roundabout and the street beyond. The buildings in the screenshot are temporary stand-ins until I have time to create the final architecture.
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Hi everyone, today I’d like to announce a project I’ve been working on for a long time: a new world modification for Fallout 4 called A Better World. You can find the announce trailer here:
Nine years ago, on October 27, 2011, I released Alton, IL, a post-nuclear recreation of my hometown in Fallout 3. You can find it here. I created the world, quests, and characters of Alton as a solo project, and I’ve always wanted to do something of that scale on my own again. So here we are!
A Better World is a story-driven open-world modification, featuring an extensive main quest, plenty of side quests, and a huge new world full of unique activities and challenges. I’m not going to talk much about the story today, but as a brief teaser: A Better World tells the story of two women on the run from the Institute: Jo and Liz, and their mission to create a better, safer world.
To support this story, A Better World features a dual setting. The first is a derelict, underground pre-war shopping mall: Vault-Tec Plaza. Vault-Tec Plaza opened in 2075 to introduce the citizens of New England to their flagship Vaults, a testament to how the American Way could continue underground. The shipping, operations, and customer service staff were almost entirely automated, thanks to a partnership between Vault-Tec and RobCo. Rumor has it that this was where Jo and Liz were last seen before they relocated to Abbot County, and this is where your search for them begins.
Vault-Tec Plaza announce screenshots:
The second is an entirely new worldspace to explore, the wild and relatively tranquil Abbot County. From the dense coniferous forests of the Nashoba Range, to windy lakeside birch forests, and through the quiet creeks and maple groves in the Nashoba Valley, Abbot County is home to an incredibly varied wilderness. Standing out amongst this wilderness is the town of Bethel, situated in the center of Lake Callahan, the result of years of land reclamation by the denizens of Abbot County.
Abbot County announce screenshots:
A Better World doesn’t yet have a release date, but when I do, I’ll certainly let everyone know.
The trailer features an instrumental cut of the song Midnight by the incredibly talented Radical Face (whose music has largely inspired this project) and brings you on a journey through the world of Abbot County and the sprawling Vault-Tec Plaza. The screenshots are some of my favorite stills from the trailer.
Thanks for stopping by, I’m so excited to finally have everyone on this journey with me.
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Having an issue where I am unable to check out forms in Fallout4.esm with Version Control on. Previously, in Skyrim, we would do the trick located here to disable the localization flag that prevented check-ins. However, I can't seem to get this to work for Fallout4.esm. Trying to check out forms seems to do nothing, and for example, checking in navmesh gives me the following error:
NavMesh Checkin
NavMeshInfoMap is currently in use or could not be checked out. Navmeshes can not be checked in at this time.
Would you like to remove all navmeshes from the current check in list and proceed? (YES)?
Or cancel check in? (NO)
Has anyone succesfully checked out a Fallout4.esm form? Or know what I might need to do to do so?
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So big news-
I have officially accepted an offer from Rockstar New England, and will be joining their team full time as a Junior Scripter! I'm ridiculously excited to join such a talented group of people working on amazing, world class video games. :)
So what does this mean for Ethas? Well, hopefully not a whole lot. I'll have less time to devote to the project, but I'll try to contribute when I can. Otherwise, the project will hopefully carry on as normal, but in the unfortunate case that it doesn't, we'll be sure to let you know. In the meantime, we'll continue our regular summer/winter update schedule, and hopefully have a few smaller updates in between.
Thanks to my awesome family and friends that have supported me throughout my game development journey, I wouldn't have been able to do it without you all. Thanks to all of you that have shown your support throughout the years, all of your feedback (both positive and negative) has helped shape Ethas into what it is today. And of course, thanks to Justin Hardin, Andreas Stavaas, and Kevin Saade Eriksen for joining me in making some awesome stuff over the past few years! Also, I have to give a shout out to Bethesda for fostering such an awesome community, as we wouldn't be here otherwise.
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is it still possible to use your old character from skyrim to ethas or we have to start a new game?
Yes, we've designed Ethas with that in mind. :smile:
You have a few options:
- If you load a current Skyrim save, you'll gain the ability to travel to and from Ethas via spell. Because the two worlds are in completely separate universes, there's no boat, road, or anything like that. As a result of this, nobody in Ethas will acknowledge you as the Dragonborn - you are instead a famous captain of the Arelian army.
- If you start a new game, you'll be presented with the option to start in either Skyrim or Ethas. If you start in Skyrim, you'll gain the spell to travel to and from Ethas after you finish Unbound.
- If you start a new game in Ethas, you will create your character as a part of our introduction, and you will get the spell after the introduction is done. When you travel to Skyrim from a new game in Ethas, you will begin in the cart as always. The only difference being that you will not create your character in Skyrim, as you have already done so while in Ethas.
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Impressive! Ticking all the top marks!
Props to your VA's, that was truly perfect! (couldve fooled me those were vanilla voices. Only these were better. :happy: )
Nothing else i can do but track this topic!
I can't take credit for choosing great voice actors, that's all thanks to Justin (Jhardingame). Our voice actors really blew us away with the quality and consistency of their recordings, seriously awesome stuff.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZzrMRgeQaM
Hello once again, everyone!
It's been an entire two years since the release of the Creation Kit, and as celebration, we've put together something special - a 17 minute demo of "Spy in the Midst", the first main quest following Ethas's introductory sequences. While this is only a small taste of a very large project, we hope it gives you an idea of what we're aiming to achieve. We'd like to thank everybody that made this possible, especially our talented cast of voice actors that worked hard to get us lines on time. We couldn't have done it without you!
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So today this happened. And keep in mind, I'm only one member of our team, and the CK only makes up a portion of my time spent on the mod.
By the way, since we're almost exactly two years since the CK released, I decided to do a little math. If you average 3000 hours out over 2 years, that's roughly 4.1 hours per day. And that makes sense, I'm a college student that also has a weekend job, so 4.1 hours per day is about what I expected that to be. However, in slightly more alarming terms, if I were to do literally nothing but work in the Creation Kit all day, every day, I would have spent 125 days straight working on Ethas.
I find the Skyrim figure a bit amusing when compared with the CK time, but it makes sense. Since I've mostly been working towards fleshing out the world in terms of level design, I don't have to test in-game too often, and when I do, it's usually in short bursts to make sure the world looks good in-game and is fun to explore. But once we enter into hardcore scripting mode soon, I expect that figure to shoot way up.
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Still looking for a level designer! We'd love to hear from you if you're looking for a team to join.
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Hey everybody, Elijah Houck here, co-creator and lead world/level designer for Ethas: Embrace of Destiny and creator of Alton, IL. We're looking to add one more talented level designer to help us shape our current project, Ethas. The mod spans the entirety of two countries, with a total playable area that is a tad larger than Skyrim. We are an experienced team with most of us having large completed projects under our belt, and as such, we are looking for somebody that knows their stuff!
What you'll be doing:
Helping shape the world of Ethas, a land made of many diverse environments
Creating interesting and unique dungeons and various other interiors, including large, living towns
Crafting narrative through exploration, using the land and the spaces below it to help tell a story
It would be great if...:
You have experience designing exterior locations for large-world projects
You have created one or more well-crafted dungeons
Have plenty of experience in the Creation Kit or other Bethesda editors
Any other relevant skills (modeling, scripting, etc.) are not required, but would be a huge plus!
We're a very laid back and fairly small (on purpose) team. As anyone on the team can tell you, Justin (who is the other co-creator) and I don't bark out orders - we let the team have freedom to work on what they want. Sure, we occasionally have deadlines if we want to show off a certain part of Ethas by a certain date, but for the most part, it's up to you.
We synchronize all of our material through Dropbox, so if you have an account, that'd be great! If not, we'll help you get one set up and linked to our team folder. We also have an IRC channel, and it is our main means of communication with the team.
Feel free to post here, PM me, or email us at [email protected]. Make sure to include any photos, videos, or links to past projects.
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looks good, especially like how that ghost skeleton looks
Thanks! The ghosts in Ethas work much more like how you'd expect them to. In Skyrim, you can kill ghosts with physical weapons, which doesn't make much sense for a nonphysical enemy. In Ethas, ghosts are only killable by means of magic, enchanted weapons, and silver weapons, which might mean you have to mix up your combat strategies when you encounter them.
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when will Ethas be available for download?
We aren't ready to talk about that yet. Keep in mind that with a world the size of Skyrim and an extensive system of quests, this is a project that will take a while to complete.
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Two companions at a time, which ends up creating some really cool dialogue between the two you choose. :)Hi, I read your article regarding companions on moddb. I like what you guys are doing them. =)
Question. Will you be able to bring more than one companion at a time unlike vanilla Skyrim?
And can I use AFT (amazing follower tweaks) in Ethas and bring companions from Skyrim to Ethas?
As far as vanilla companions, stay tuned. We haven't yet designed a system to handle that. If I had a guess, I'm going to say no. But that could change, who knows.
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will you lose your items when you switch to skyrim? because I'd rather not get a whole bunch of nice items to lose them
No, you will retain your items when moving back and forth. We debated having your Ethas and Skyrim items remain separate, but like you said, nobody wants to find a great weapon or armor set, only to find that it can't be used in the other world. ;)
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If you start a new game, you are given a choice to start in the world of your choosing. If you start in Skyrim, after the introduction (i.e. the Unbound quest), you receive a "Travel to Ethas" spell that is active while in Skyrim. If you use this spell, you will begin Ethas at it's introductory quest. After you finish the introduction of Ethas, you will receive a "travel to Skyrim" spell that is active while in Ethas.
If you travel to Skyrim while in Ethas, you return to where you last left Skyrim. If you were outside of Bleak Falls Barrow, you'd be whisked back to that spot. The same holds true to when you travel back to Ethas. The spells have the same conditions as Fast Travel - if you are currently in combat, falling, in an interior, or fast travel has been disabled by a script, then you cannot travel back and forth. This helps alleviate any problems that may come up, like dying as soon as you travel back to one of the worlds or screwing up a scene.
The same is true if you start a new game in Ethas, with a one differences. You go through the character creation process in Ethas rather than Skyrim, so when exiting the cart after traveling to Skyrim for the first time, it will skip the character creation menu.
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Just saw this on gopher's channel... glad to finally see a huge new-world mod with English as it's primary language and not German (*cough* nerhim/enderal *cough*). I will definitely be watching out for this one. Good luck guys!
EDIT: Hmmm, the name Ethas rings a bell, but I can't remember why or what I'm thinking of...
Well, since Ethas is the name of the planet that our mod takes place on, we hoped it would sound related to "Earth." Fun fact of the day! :)
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Aaaaaaand... the 2013 Summer Update is here! Check out the first link for plenty of background information about the two cities we're showing off today, then click this link here for seven new screenshots of Storinhal and Valeria. Enjoy! :)
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Glad to hear it! :)
Conditional loot in any instance of a specific Container
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Ah, right. Will these events be received on my Container objects even if my object is not currently loaded? (e.g. if Im several cells away, behind many load doors, etc.)