stebbinsd Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 (edited) Hearthfire's "build your own home" system is incredibly rigid. You can't even choose which side of the house a particular room goes in, much less where you place the furniture! I'd like to see someone make a mod where you have control over the exact placement of your homes that's on par with The Sims. If that's even possible, outside the creation kit itself, I'd like to see it. But the foundation already seems to be there, present in mods. For example, with Frostfall, you can select the exact placement for your tent and campfire, assuming the surface is sufficiently flat to accommodate the items. We also have a mod that was featured on Gamespot's Top 5 Skyrim Mods of the Week, that lets you use a lexicon to drop the entrance to your home anywhere you like. Another mod from Gamespot was "Placeable Statics: Move Everything." But it only worked with furniture, not walls (because ... how the f*** COULD it work with walls? Remember ... the game mechanics are that the "inside" of your home is actually floating around in a void, and the "doors" are just portals that transport you there). So, the scripting needed to pull this off shouldn't be too hard. You can easily get around the aforementioned "interior void" thing by simply having the interior of the house be inside the same game cell as the adjacent exterior (kind of like a "build your own home" version of Open Cities). This would probably bog down a mid-range PC to hell and back, but at least it's doable. Edited December 22, 2014 by stebbinsd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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