I have this crazy idea.. I want to make a readable book.

[punxdog]

Firstly, I'm newb all the way, so be a little kind to me.. having said that, I've poked around as much as possible to attempt to figure out how to do what I have in mind, looking through geck, forums etc, and probably I've missed something somewhere etc, .. anyhow.. this is my idea.

 

I want to make a readable book, ie, a book you can look through, prefrably have pages turning etc. My ideas on how to do this so far are..

- Have a bik movie play, change chapters to change the page

- Somehow make a menu background item etc, similar to how its done on oblivion, sure, menumode(1026) would be great, but err.. no images etc, eek!?

- Pop up an image via a decal [or whatever its called] similar to blood on the screen when hit.

- somehow 'steal' the SPECIAL baby book's way of doing it.. although I can't find anything leading down to making your own unque versions.

 

I'm fairly sure with the right programs and some frustrating and time consumed I can make the bik version work, but I would LOVE to have it so other people could make up their own books too, particularly being able to put in their own images and text, and I would like to keep the downloading required to a minimum. [movies can be big, although I think I'll be able to keep it down due to lack of moving]

 

So, I'm after ideas and thoughts, script examples, directions and anything else you've got.

 

woof.

[Dragarr]

One suggestion is to look at the "Your SPECIAL" book, see if you can pull it apart and see how it was implimented.

[punxdog]

'Your special".. Yeah as mentioned above and I looked at it intently...

 

I can 'call it' via a script [showSPECIALBookMenu, or ssbm] but I can't seem to find the pages within the book in GECK so I can't duplicate it, nor does there seem to be a way to make it call a 'different' 'your special' via the call either. My guess is it's hard coded, but I'm totally a newbie, so hopefully I'm wrong.

 

Script that's with the YOUR special book..

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begin OnActivate

if getStage CG01 >= 30 && getStageDone CG01 50 == 0

setstage CG01 50

ssbmp 40 <--------- this is the only clue I have, as it's got '40' after it...

endif

end

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As per the ssbmp 40, it's calling the special book here and I'm not too sure what the 40 referes to, which 'may' mean there's a way to add in other pages or some such thing?.. again, no idea.

 

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- I have another idea on how it could easily be done, I could just bring up a dialogue [via a script of course], there's plenty of examples of how that could be done, for the text component, although I was really hoping I could add pictures which was the main point of the idea. I could add 'a picture' in the inventory, again, not what I wanted, think 'comic' book or similar and in colour!

[PuceMooose]

I also have a great interest in adding a malleable book element. My two mods have lots of reading material (through image and text logs), and the thought of having a more immersive reading interface than the PiPBoy is quite appealing.

 

I'll poke around a little bit and see if I can find anything useful.