PoliteRaider

Personally, I like the games and settings they make, it's fun to make something that uses and extends that. I try not to let the mob sway my decisions about what I want to do and how I enjoy doing it. I won't lie, it's disappointing when you see people being ungrateful but I don't want to let someone who's doing that control my choices or take away my enjoyment.

DDS formats include many different sub formats. Most of Fallout 4's are encoded in more recent sub formats which older programs would be unable to read. With Photoshop you can try https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-texture-tools-adobe-photoshop Or for GIMP http://registry.gimp.org/node/70

It can take a bit of time to get there. The Creation Kit was only released in late April, F4SE is still in alpha testing, Animation's just starting to be properly explored now and everyone's still getting the hang of modding the new engine. The people who'd be most ready to make a Fallout 4 mod right out of the gate are the Skyrim modders and if they're even interested in FO4 they'll still probably be dividing their time with Skyrim whereas new modders like me are still learning everything we need to know to start making complex large mods. There will be some but it will take a bit of time. After the DLC is all released is a much easier time to mod because you're not building on a foundation that changes every few weeks, I won't say you'll have to wait that long but it'll be a point where things change a bit and you'll probably see a lot more involved mods after all the DLC are done.

I think perhaps you're missing the point somewhat. While backups are always a good idea and it's a good habit to get into to make regular backups, focusing on that as the concern of your post is showing pretty much a complete disregard for the author. Boasting then about your freedom to use it and possession of it, is showing a pretty strong focus on your own self-interest above anything else.

Thankyou for all this information. This is very clearly presented and explained, I know basically nothing about this topic and could still easily read what you had there. While I don't plan on doing much animation work since it's really far out of my skillset, it's so useful to know how this works and to know that there are going to be other people now well equipped to do it.

Your information is factually incorrect. Please note that Bethesda's legal team have contradicted your claims specifically in regards to mods for Fallout 4 and have advised that mod authors are permitted to file DMCA notices for their mods. Also so far as I'm aware both Nexus and Bethesda.net terms of service both explicitly forbid the actions you're describing. You may wish to research this matter more thoroughly before taking further action.

No worries, glad I could help.

Hopefully Blah's post there's got you on the right track for fixing the initial problem. No problem, they're a handy thing to learn about as FO4 uses them for a lot of different functions like the settlement menus, crafting and even NPC voice-files. http://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=FormList

From what I can see the mod you're referencing lelcat simply directly adds the workshop's location reference to the settlement location formlist (001D98E2). I wouldn't recommend this approach as it will make the mod incompatible with any other mod doing the same method unless there's a compatibility patch.

If you have the Automatron DLC then make a copy of the WorkshopAddLocationScript and set it up to use your new settlement as its alias. Source: This thread. https://community.bethesda.net/message/73830#73830

I still haven't updated it from the day one release because apparently the latest version has problems running in Australia. I'm not sure if that would affect me or not, but I haven't been willing to take the risk. Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for them making the program and releasing it but yeah I can't deny that it's got some real problems. Also thanks LlamaRCA I didn't know about that option.

The nexus mods page is down for maintenance so I can't get you the links, however... Get your hands on the utility Bethesda Archive Extractor or BAE for Fallout 4. Extract the files in the sound directory. Replace the sound files that you want to replace with identically named sound files with the new music you want. ... optional: You may need to convert the file format if the files you have are a different sort. Put the new files in your fallout 4/data directory, mimicking the same structure of directories that you had in the archive (BAE will automatically keep this structure for you).

All good. Just be careful about lines like 'every single, and I do mean every single' if it's just a general overview. Gives the wrong idea. Also it's not rare at all to see people give their work away for free. I'm not sure where you're even getting that idea from. I mean... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteering In the arts world, people frequently work away for fun and to develop their skills. Often giving away their work because you really need an audience to develop your artistic abilities. After a while though, you reach the point where your skills are developed to a professional level and some of the artists move on to selling their work. The artificial barrier here in modding to making that leap means you get people who are capable of making valuable work toiling away for free, which is a slightly unstable position. It may be maintained through passion, drive, community engagement and other such factors but if their only option to move forwards is to leave and move to other things... well, that's going to happen sometimes. By relying and counting purely upon people's altruism, is it any wonder that sometimes it gets worn down and a mod author can get frustrated.

Perhaps rather than having your perk and script act on the disease factors in the HC Manager script directly, they could instead act on the food items to affect whether they have the relevant keywords.

Well, there's the Creation Kit Wiki that Bethesda maintains. It's especially good for referring to for any Papyrus scripting you need to do. Alteratively there's some youtube tutorial channels that are worth looking at. Many are still for Skyrim but while there've been some minor changes here and there, most things are done the same way as they were in Skyrim so I think it's worth looking at those too. At the end of the day though, sometimes you just open up the files and see how they work. If you load Fallout.esm into the creation kit, just load up something you're interested in from the vanilla game and see if you can figure out how it's done and why it works.