Help regarding where to find... (modding)

[RiftWynd]

New to Fallout4 modding, but long time programmer.

 

Downloaded some interesting mods, wanted to try somethings for myself -

 

1) some mods allow a keypress to make something work. How do they do it? I cannot bind a key to a function ingame, and theres no apparent way to do that outside of the game?

 

2) a hotkeys mod i tried allows alot of commands to used, but how would one get a current key binding, and use THIS key binding but also THAT key binding as well?

 

3) After downloading fo4edit, i cant see how you use it to find out how a script works, or even how the game is using it - is there another program used to create the scripts and see how the game uses it to get the keys pressed, files located and ran etc?

 

Apologies if these are baby questions, but these forums are huge and ive been searching for obvious answers to these for weeks and im stumped - it appears you either know how to do it and release esps, or you dont know how to do it and are directed to sites with programs on with no tutorials to explain how this works and what the process is doing.

 

Also am i understanding correctly that i can give money directly to a modder on here via contributions? Can i show appreciation for a mod by giving the author funding?

[YouDoNotKnowMyName]

You need the "Creation Kit" to do scripting stuff, and modding in general.

It has an actual graphical user interface (so you can see what you are doing when editing the game world or NPCs or things like that)

It is the actual development tool that was used to make the game. (or at least it is the public version of it)

 

Have a look at this: https://www.creationkit.com/fallout4/index.php?title=OnKeyDown_-_ScriptObject

It explains how to make a script that does something when a key is pushed.

 

 

Yes, you can give money to mod authors.

I don't know the details, I never used that ...

Edited July 27, 2021 by YouDoNotKnowMyName

[RiftWynd]

Sry for late reply - thankyou for your help!