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It's ok, it's sorted now. They were just activated in the in-game menu, for some reason. Every time I start F4, I have to activate them now.

Hi I haven't played F4 for a few months, and now when I started it today none of my mods work. I understand that this is due to Bethesda's Creation Club update. I tried re-installing the mods through NMM, which is what I originally used, in the correct order, and locking the plugins.txt file, but it didn't work. I don't have a lot of mods, but I like the ones I have and I'd like to get them working again. I notice that on the file, the load order seems to be wrong. Any help appreciated. This is what I had: Fallout4.esm DLCCoast.esm ArmorKeywords.esm DarkerNights.esp DarkerNightsDetection.esp gloomyWeather.esp CBBE.esp el_AgentOutfit.esp BuildableBurningCampfires.esp /Jason

Microsoft have long term plans to kill the desktop, and have all games sold through their wall garden store. That's when free modding will stop, unless Linux clients come into play.

Hi Can anyone tell me which mod is best for making the nights very dark? Thanks Jason

Thanks. I'll stick with it.

The current tactical commands for companions are very limited. Are there any mods that give you additional options for your companions? When attacking, I often have to use "stay" to stop my companion running into the midst of the enemy and getting killed / stunned, but then the companion does not defend itself if attacked. Would be nice to have at least one more command like "hold position" where the player will not move but will shoot. I can envisage a few more tactical commands that would be handy in certain situations.

I found at least three gameSetting variables that I can alter in order to change the detection sensitivity of enemies. So that part is solved. All I need to do now is make a script or two to change those variables when fog comes, and change them back when fog goes. Wondering which is best approach for this? Obviously, I need a way to trigger such scripts. Next, I was thinking at first to change these variables when the weather changes, but I'd still need to script to run to "listen" for that weather changing event. Another problem is that since weather transitions happen over a long period of time, a sudden change of detection values may not be the best approach. Perhaps a local variable could be used to detect fogginess? Any help appreciated. /Jason

Hi I made a weather mod that includes thick fog and noticed that when there is thick fog, the NPCs seem to detect me as if the weather is still clear. Or at least, they detect me more easily than I can detect them. I noticed that fog actually works against me, rather than provides me with a stealth advantage. In the next update to my mod, I'd like to fix it so players have this stealth advantage. I was wondering if there is an easy way to change this? Any help appreciated. /Jason

So, I've been trying to figure this out on my own, and it looks like we have to use sound descriptors, as these have conditions built into them. I think the sound marker needs to be linked to a descriptor with the conditions to activate. Custom weather objects then form part of the conditions expressions.

Hi Actually I didn't mean interior cells so much as shelters that are part of an exterior, like shacks and so on. Anyway I'm not sure it matters. Basically I duplicated a couple of weather objects, changed a few parameters to create the weather effects I wanted, then I saved it all as a plug in. I forgot about the interior sounds. How is this achieved? I notice there is sound marker reference in the room called "AMBWeatherRainFakeInteriorMetalSmallmarker" and this is the sound I want, but I don't know how to get it to work with my weather. Any help appreciated. Thanks Jason

Hi Since the first two digits of objects that have dynamically allocated form ids are variable and cannot be documented, how can such objects be accessed via the console? Also, is there an easy way to convert a decimal number into a hexadecimal string? Thanks in advance /Jason

Thanks guys. So there a few approaches to this which seemed impossible to me. @hollaajith: B wouldn't be dropped when PC is in an exterior cell - a simple check prevents that - that was the easy part :)

Cheers. What I was planning to do was to have an item 'A' which, when the player has in the inventory, makes another item 'B' appear in player inventory. This second object B can only be placed in interiors which do not already contain it or the ASE interior sound activator. What it does is add the interior sound to an interior that does not already have it. If you try to add 'B' twice (ie it's already there), the item is removed from the cell. Finally, removing item 'A' from the inventory removes 'B' also. So basically it is a tool to add interior ASE sound to interiors which don't have it. Everything is working apart from the logic to check if the player has already placed the item in the interior. However, it turned out to be a complicated project!

Hi Thanks for the reply. So are you saying that it is possible to attach a script to the reference, which targets the player? Regards Jason

Thanks. All I need is to check whether a reference is present in the current interior cell. I am frustratingly close to a solution. At first GetDistance looked promising, but it only looks for the first reference used, rather than the one in the current cell. Interestingly, if that first reference is not in the current cell, then it returns a value of 340282346638528860000000000000000000000, which you can then check against. If the reference is unique this is a way to test if its in the same interior. But alas, in my mod the references I need to check aren't unique.

Hi I need to check whether a reference is present in any potential interior. Since every interior is a cell with a limited number of references, I would imagine that checking to see if a specific reference is present in that interior cell would be quite simple; yet I have not found a way to do it. I can't even find a function that will return the name of the cell I'm in. Is there a way to do these things without resorting to MWSE? Regards Jason

Thanks for the help - that's cool. I've messaged Abot.

Hi I have just finished an esp that depends on a couple of MGSO plugins. I'd like to share my .esp on Nexus, but is it really necessary to look up the authors of these plugins in order to obtain permission to re-use them in my project? These plugins the Windows glow files, by MAX a.k.a Nobody, Abot's fix, and Duncan's Atmospheric Sound Effects. Getting in touch with some of these people is not easy. Regards Jason

I know why now. It's because when I first installed MCP, I did it manually. This is what gives you the showcase. In the MGSO version, it appears the showcase has been removed. Not that I wanted to the showcase. I just like to know why things don't work when they should!

Hi Recently reinstalled Morrowind with MGSO. Part of the package of MGSO is the Morrowind Code Patch, which is supposed to add an esp file with this trapdoor, leading to a code patch showcase. Any ideas why this showcase not appearing after this reinstall? Cheers Jason

Hi I tried installing Abot's boats mod using NMM, on top of the MSGO. When I started the game I got a warning about a missing master file TR_data.esm. I think it's referring to Tamriel Rebuilt - it seems like abot's boats requires the TR mod? Any suggestions? Cheers Jason

Thanks!

You can lock or hide objects by selecting them and pressing "1", but I haven't figured out how to unlock them again, without restarting the editor. Anyone? /Jason

Resetting quests is messy because you have to analyse all the scripts and reset all the variables the quest permanently changes, such as the doonce flags. It's not enough just to reset the quest object stages. The only way you could do it is to find the Quest object name, then find all references of that name in the scripts and so get a list of relevant scripts. Then go through each of the scripts in the list, taking note of the code linked to a change in the quest object stage. Any variable that triggers a change in the quest's object stage needs to be changed back to it's original, pre-triggered a value. When all this is done, the quest stage needs to be set to 0. Or you could just do "ResetQuest [iD]"

Hi The title says it all. I'm using the Fallout 3 GECK and I have created a large cell. Everything was fine last night but when I loaded in the data files today, and opened the cell, there appeared to be this strange fog in render window top down perspective view. I tried orbiting the render view camera around the geometry and the "fog" immediately jumped to cover just half of the screen, and forming a border right through the centre of the screen. Below this border everything looked normal As I rotated the camera, the border began to rotate relative to the screen, around the screens centre. I can't get rid of it no matter what I try. It's in all perspective view, but orthogonal views look normal. I've seen something similar to this before, in game, when using reflective water inside a building, and the water is set to reflect sky. Anyone know how to fix it? Jason