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    New Vegas Crash on Load (Windows 10, vanilla game)

    in Mod Troubleshooting

    Posted · Edited by luthienanarion

    Alright, I'm having a handful of different issues involving both crashing and missing hair on NPCs.

     

    Eventually, I came across this fix for the hair: https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/50470?tab=description

    Fix, my ass. Delete that and any other d3d9.dll file you may have installed in your game folder.

     

    If hair won't render, it's because the game is selecting a DX8 shader package for your driver which does not support the hair rendering the game uses.

     

    Open up <My Documents>\My Games\FalloutNV\RendererInfo.txt and post the contents.

    Can't mod Sturdy Caravan Shotgun w/ WMX?

    in Discussion

    Posted

    It has nothing to do with the model. You cannot modify the form record for the Sturdy Caravan Shotgun, period.

     

    The game engine will not load any record overrides from any plugins for injected records. It loads the record data once and then fails to resolve the FormID each time that an overriding record is loaded from a subsequent plugin.

     

    Blame Obsidian for an awful design choice that I'm sure someone thought was clever at the time.

    Delay Level up screen?

    in Mod Ideas

    Posted · Edited by luthienanarion

    That's in NVSE 5.1 as ShowLevelUpMenu when it gets released.

     

    SetInCharGen was only ever used to keep the player from leveling up before having the chance to re-customize their character before leaving Vault 101.

    Purge cell buffer mod causing problems

    in Mod Troubleshooting

    Posted

    Auto-purge mods will cause issues (not necessarily those described above) all by themselves and should not be used. The game clears old cell memory when more is needed to load a new cell.

    If you want the game to clear the cell buffer more aggressively, enable bPreemptivelyUnloadCells and bSelectivePurgeUnusedOnFastTravel in your INI settings.

     

    NEVER use the PurgeCellBuffers (PCB) command. It's a debugging tool used for testing cell and reference loading, not a magic fix for memory problems.

    Script Issue

    in GECK and Modders

    Posted · Edited by luthienanarion

    Correct. I'm not sure if there is a limit to using && to add expressions to one IF condition; that limit is for nesting IF...ENDIF blocks inside each other.

    The GECK will throw an error when compiling (assuming GECK-PU) if you nest them too deep.

     

    It's also a lot more complex to convert a single IF to nested IFs when using || (OR) or a combination of || and &&, because you end up having to repeat some of them.

     

     

    It's a mostly negligible performance difference, unless you perform multiple heavy or slow function calls to determine whether or not to run a block of code in a script that runs often (an object script, for example).

    Script Issue

    in GECK and Modders

    Posted · Edited by luthienanarion

    It should be noted that the engine actually evaluates ALL expressions in a condition, regardless if one has already evaluated to FALSE.

     

    if someVar == 7 && npcRef.GetDead && GetStage VCG01 == 100
   ; do stuff
endif
    In that example, if someVar doesn't equal 7, GetDead is still called on npcRef, GetStage is still called on VCG01, and the return value of GetStage is still compared to 100.

     

    It's uglier code to nest IF statements, but it's more efficient because of how asinine the compiler is:

    if someVar == 7
   if npcRef.GetDead
      if GetStage VCG01 == 100
         ; do stuff
      endif
   endif
endif
    In this rewrite, execution moves to the line after the last ENDIF after only determining that someVar is not 7, skipping the other evaluations.

    Note that IF statements can only be nested inside each other 10-deep.

     

     

    If you're comparing a variable or function return against 0, it's more efficient to use ELSE than to make the comparison using the == operator:

    if someRef.GetDisabled
else
   ; do stuff, because the ref isn't disabled
endif
    The scripting engine does a lot of things differently from actual programming languages and compilers.

    is there a way to "reenable" a "taken" ref ?

    in Mod Troubleshooting

    Posted

    Reference flags are actually flags on the reference form, so some of the flags have different effects if the form is a reference. On a regular form, flag 1024 marks a quest item and makes it impossible to drop, not count toward encumbrance etc. On a reference, it marks it as persistent.

     

    Most data modifications made by NVSE functions do not persist through game sessions, because the game engine doesn't know that any changes are made and thus doesn't save them.

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