mod making help

[DoctorKaizeld]

hey can someone direct me to a good tutorial for making text and audio holotapes and how to place them in the game world? i have a mod idea i want to make but i would like to have a good tutorial to use rather than go in blind.

[AxlDave]

http://www.moddb.com/mods/explorer/tutorials/geck-custom-holotape-voice

 

This was the first result that came up when I typed into Google "fallout nv tutorial making holotapes".

 

Google should always be your first port of call. Posting on the forums is more of a last resort.

[DoctorKaizeld]

i did google it and got a lot of different tutorials, i just want one that someone recommends. not all tutorials are good.

 

posting 'i just gave you the first google result i found because thats what you should have done' is not the anwser i or anybody else here wants to see. please try to be helpful in the future.

Edited November 5, 2014 by qwertyzeldar

[AxlDave]

Or maybe try to do a little more research.

 

There is no all-encompassing tutorial that every modder swears by. You need to find the tutorial that works for you, like everyone else does.

 

Asking people to do your research for you, and getting snarky when you're told to do it yourself will not get you any responses, let alone helpful ones.

 

Try posting once you've shown you've actually put some effort in, then you might be worth the time of a helpful response.

[DoctorKaizeld]

 

Try posting once you've shown you've actually put some effort in, then you might be worth the time of a helpful response.

i havent put time and effort in this? did you even ask if i put any time and effort in this? im pretty sure i said i have in my last post.

 

 

Asking people to do your research for you, and getting snarky when you're told to do it yourself will not get you any responses, let alone helpful ones.

im not asking for people to do research, im asking for a tutorial that people recommend there are a lot of tutorials out there. i just would like to know which one i should use. you started this discussion by googling what i asked for and than gave me the link to the very first tutorial. i can do that myself, i did do that myself! you're not being helpful at all you're just wasting my time, and i have the right to be annoyed when someone gives me a rude answer to a simple request.

 

 

There is no all-encompassing tutorial that every modder swears by. You need to find the tutorial that works for you, like everyone else does.

i know the first part, the second part is why im here.

 

so in other words, please try to be useful in the future.

[ArekkusuStorm]

Personally, I find that the GECK site has pretty much all you need for doing basic stuff like the holotapes. I am going to say that I just googled 'geck holotape' and went to the second search result but I can vouch for it's usefulness. (Yes, it's a tutorial for a quest, but we want the information about creating a holotape down the page.)

 

So basically, in the GECK, you want to access the 'notes' sub-tab under the items tab.

Right click and edit (or just double click) an existing holotape already using the 'holotape01.nif' model.

Change the Name and ID, and press 'text' for the note type if it hasn't already been selected. At the bottom, fill in the text you want the player to see.

Then press ok when it asks if you want to create a new form.

 

Now, to place it in the world, switch over the the Cell View window and choose where you want to place the holotape by right clicking the location/cell and pressing view. The render window should display the cell, click and drag the holotape into the render window and position it so it's leveled with the table/ground/etc. (You may need to use the tilde key to switch control to the camera to get a better view. If you do that, you can control it with your wasd keys.)

After that, hit save and I think that's it.

 

I'm not entirely sure how different audio holotapes are, I haven't done any research on them yet.

[DoctorKaizeld]

okay cool thanks man. i will look right into that.

[SayinNuthin]

Personally I find the Oblivion CK tutorials helpful. The GECK tuts tell you 'how to do' something but the much older CK ones often tell you 'why' it does that and how it works on a much more fundamental level (if that is what you need).

 

But if you don't need that level of understanding for your project... Lucky 'ol you :laugh:

[DoctorKaizeld]

well i dont need that level of understanding, just a simple small mod for now. though i will look into that, could be beneficial down the line.

[thebestdamncourier]

Audio Holotapes- take a recorded sound, preferably the .wav variety, and create a TESSound with it( with this, dont edit a previously existing file, just make a new one) In the holotape menu select audio unless it is t already selected. Then clcuk the select TESSound button, and lick your audio file from the list that pops up.