Adding Weapons - Tutorials?

[seekingthesun]

I couldn't even get a legal copy of 3dsmax to install correctly

[seekingthesun]

Hello, I think the same as yoshi101, I also have a pretty interesting arsenal for FO4, but there are no tutorials that could explain how to edit them in nifskope, I´m refering things like the bones, the weapon position and thing like that. The same goes with seekingthesum post, the material editor is a good tool, but I think many people don´t know how to use it. Finally and if it help, there is a tutorial made by Millenia that cover how to make a weapon for fallout new vegas. The point is I´m not shure if the steps explained in the mentioned tutorial would work with Fallout 4 due to its new game structure, but it maybe serve as a guide. Here is the link:

 

 

Hope it helps.

PD: Please, it is valid for FO4, respond to this post saying that it worked or not.

Many Thanks, repeat, hope this would be helpfull

Perhaps it would work, but like that videos says, you need the GECK

[Hitlerecka]

No mister, I´m referring on how edit a weapon in nifskope

[Deleted11727343User]

Okay, so I've looked over the video and according to a friend who I also sent the link to the method in the video won't work, it's for FONV and the game mechanics are too different. But we thank you for your help non the less.

 

To the real issue.

 

I feel like the modding community in general at the moment don't want to share, I have modded weapons installed on my game, Desert Eagle, M1191 and others, so for the life of me I can't figure out why they wont share how to get weapons into game. My friend said that it almost feels like they don't want anyone else being able to, and if that's the case I find that out of line, as a community built on mods you would think that we'd share the knowledge of how to add and change.

 

But it's almost as if they want to be the only ones able to add this stuff to game, and I think that's wrong, and before you jump to their defense and start saying it's not like that, I ask you one simple question. Why are there no tutorials on adding weapons? I have posted multiple times asking for ways to add weapons and the responses I get are always the same, "Google is a thing". To those of you with that pathetic attempt at a reply I say this, I have and do continue to google it, but there is nothing that relates to FO4, and it's because those who know won't share with the rest of us who have mods we wish to add but can't.

 

I don't care if you feel what I say is out of line, I say shove your opinion, people shouldn't have to get to the point of writing these sort of posts to get something that should be available to all who want or need it. It's very simple, upload videos or written guides on how add weapons and armors, stop with the keeping it to yourselves crap.

[MasterMagnus]

I'm new here, working on a mod right now, but haven't released anything yet.

 

I was able to research modding and found ample tutorials to get me started. Most apply to the other games, but it's not hard to adapt the technique to FO4.

 

Before I'm ever capable of making an informative video I need to work with the system for a while.

 

I expect most people are the same. Once they learn it they start doing it, and it gets very involved. Making tutorials is way down the line.

 

 

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stop with the keeping it to yourselves crap.

 

This really isn't a healthy attitude, and I doubt it gets people falling all over themselves to make tutorials for you.

 

In the time you spent posting that you could have been researching yourself and posted something helpful yourself.

 

The modders that are doing it now taught themselves. Give it a try. I find it quite fun to discover something for myself through research rather than being told how to do it.

 

I agree to a point, there aren't a whole lot of 'modders helping each other out' threads. But it is really early. Many people are doing things they just cobbled together and aren't sure if it will even be supported going forward.

 

I'd wait a month or so after GECK is released before expecting to see many super concise tutorials flying around.

[Hitlerecka]

Hello, thanks for the answer. You´re right, the point is there´s something similar to this problem, for example in Grand theft auto V. Only a few group of modders have the knowledge of getting meshes in the game, but the most disturbing of all of this is that they are charging for doing mods. I won´t be talking through here if I were found something useful in google.

I am also doing experiments with FO4edit. In other words I´m looking for answes rather than a tutorial.

Edited April 26, 2016 by Hitlerecka

[RustyXXL]

I feel like the modding community in general at the moment don't want to share, I have modded weapons installed on my game, Desert Eagle, M1191 and others, so for the life of me I can't figure out why they wont share how to get weapons into game.

 

It's quite easy...making stuff is fun, writing tutorials is tedious and boring. Nobody wants to do boring tedious stuff in their free time.

Additionally often the Question are so general, that an answer is simply not possibel, without effectively writing a tutorial, and additionally often the question alone shows that the person asking has put 0 effort in trying it, or at least doesn't show that he has put effort in trying to figure it out.

And quite honestly I spent hours over hours trying to figure stuff out. For my bodyslide conversion I easily spent 2-5h on each of them, sometimes (especially the first ones) even a lot more, so is it to much of me to ask that you put a similar effort into it, before asking me?

I get question on how to do that every now and then, and most of the time this was my answer: I can't answer your question, without effectively doing the conversion myself, and I'm not really interested in doing that. If you have specific questions I'm happy to help, but until then I can't help you...

Here's a quick sample question for you...fill out the blanks and you'll be much more likely to get answers.

 

I am trying to do XXX. I've tried to do it THIS and THAT way, and my expected result was THIS. Instead I got THAT, and I really can't understand why THAT happens. It would be really great, if you could point me in the right direction.

 

instead of "I want to make Weapons, how do I do that?" I'm sure you see the difference there. My version shows that you actually already put effort in it.

[Hitlerecka]

 

I feel like the modding community in general at the moment don't want to share, I have modded weapons installed on my game, Desert Eagle, M1191 and others, so for the life of me I can't figure out why they wont share how to get weapons into game.

 

It's quite easy...making stuff is fun, writing tutorials is tedious and boring. Nobody wants to do boring tedious stuff in their free time.

Additionally often the Question are so general, that an answer is simply not possibel, without effectively writing a tutorial, and additionally often the question alone shows that the person asking has put 0 effort in trying it, or at least doesn't show that he has put effort in trying to figure it out.

And quite honestly I spent hours over hours trying to figure stuff out. For my bodyslide conversion I easily spent 2-5h on each of them, sometimes (especially the first ones) even a lot more, so is it to much of me to ask that you put a similar effort into it, before asking me?

I get question on how to do that every now and then, and most of the time this was my answer: I can't answer your question, without effectively doing the conversion myself, and I'm not really interested in doing that. If you have specific questions I'm happy to help, but until then I can't help you...

Here's a quick sample question for you...fill out the blanks and you'll be much more likely to get answers.

 

I am trying to do XXX. I've tried to do it THIS and THAT way, and my expected result was THIS. Instead I got THAT, and I really can't understand why THAT happens. It would be really great, if you could point me in the right direction.

 

instead of "I want to make Weapons, how do I do that?" I'm sure you see the difference there. My version shows that you actually already put effort in it.

 

Perhaps you don´t know what I´m going to ask, or the effort done, don´t generalize mister.

[RustyXXL]

Perhaps you don´t know what I´m going to ask, or the effort done, don´t generalize mister.

 

 

 

 

You know what. We all do generalize, just some are more open about it than others. It's just how the brain processes things. Generalize everything, so you don't have to keep as much as memories. But that's besides the point. I gave you tipps on how to increase your chances to get actual answers. Use them or don't, I really don't give a thing about it...because you know what? I can figure out the stuff I want to do and am not the one stuck with nothing.

 

Edit: Oh yeah, and I'm also the one who usually gets his answers, on the rare occasion I have to ask because I can't figure it out.

Edited April 26, 2016 by RustyXXL

[Deleted11727343User]

The issue isn't that we don't want to learn, my issue is the fact that for those who are very new to modding, we don't want to learn what applies to other games, because a lot of it has no bearing on the games we want to play or mod.

 

Don't get me wrong I have modded before, I added HMS Astute to Silent hunter 4, and was in the process of adding the USS Nimitz, but that game's modding knowledge does not help me in fallout 4. I'm sorry but most of you speak from the stand point of people who have modded Bethesda games, where as some of us have not. I don't expect them to go out of their way to produce a video in their spare time but I see nothing wrong with videoing during the process and explaining, what is so difficult.

 

I have eight weapons I want to add, and without a knowledge of the tools I'm supposed to use I would therefore have only the potential to mod in a CTD into my game because there is nothing to explain what not to do, what to do or how to fix. So for those of you now who say there is more than enough to get you started I ask that you go back into the ass crack of google, and post links, because if you can't don't sit there and tell us we aren't looking for it.

 

Or, just maybe you don't understand simple words, I have asked for links or help regarding the adding of completely new weapons to the game, and as I stated, the response I got was "Google is a thing". Congrats, yes google is a thing, I use it daily. But it doesn't solve the issue, I want to be able to do it properly, and add decent weapons to game, not follow a tutorial on how to mod a game that means very little me.

 

Really, how hard can writing basic steps down, and allowing us to expand on it ourselves? if it's just basics covering most of the process what is the Issue?????