Wouldn't it be kinda cool....

[Tenamil]

A friend, my brother and I were all talking about trying to start a large mod project. Where we would recreate Fallout 1 with the fallout 4 game engine. The problem is, we're extreme newbies when it comes to building mods, I myself have only made 1 and a half mod (the half mod I'm working on now, and that will trying to recreate Vault 15 from fallout 1). My brother has never made a mod in his life, as he was a console player till he finally got himself a PC, and my friend is a 3D modeller, but has never modified Fallout or any beth game before.

 

So I present this idea to you skilled modders, most of the fallout 1 town and dungeon layouts can be found online in screenshot.

[tawatabak]

would be cool but i guess not legal to be uploaded, except u would make an installer which requires the original fallout 1 game to install your mod

like tale of two wastelands does.

[seekingthesun]

Don't listen to him it's perfectly legal for you to do that. In fact there was a plan in the works to remake Fallout 1 in Fallout New Vegas. The problem is is that I hate to say it, but if you are not extremely experienced with modding this is never going to get mad, well at least not by you.

This would be a really tough undertaking even if 10 of the most experience matters in this community somehow worked together.

I would ask you the following questions are you able to 3D model in a program from scratch? Could you put together a script in Papyrus to make a quest to go to a cave and kill some radscorpions?

Edited May 9, 2016 by seekingthesun

[jcdenton2012]

OooooK... that's... ambitious. If you intend to recreate the dungeons for a 3-dimensional F4 game-play style then that won't be terribly difficult. Perhaps time consuming, but not difficult. You also probably won't be able to legally use any of the original dialogue so you'll have to look into recruiting some voice actors to dub the original lines from F1. Now, the real hard part is going to be designing the original world cells.

 

Now, I usually don't believe in advertising my own work on the boards, because I don't want to be a jackass, because I believe in being humble, but I can actually help you out with that particular issue. Take a look at my work for New Vegas to get some ideas for what you might want to do and how you want to do it for F4. Note, I think someone de-SCOLed my Poseidon Oil Rig in another mod so you might want to do a search for it instead of simply using my own version.

 

BFM San Francisco

Los Angeles

Poseidon Oil Rig

[seekingthesun]

I'm not trying to shoot this down necessarily I'd just give you a challenge. Look at the Creation Kit tutorials for building a vault and by one week from now May 16th, have re-created vault 13 and the cave with you and that friend of yours. Like I said there's a tutorial for the creation kit for fallout 4/new vegas that is still appliciable. If you manage to make vault 13, even if it's a worldspace only viewable in the geck, I would volunteer to join your team.

[Tenamil]

@Seekingthesun

- Your absolutely right, it would be pretty much impossible for me to do this mod. I really wish I could because Fallout 1 is a great game, and even tho it's extremely dated I would estimate a lot of the younger players of Fallout 3 or 4 never got to experience it. Which is why if it could be done I'd rather hand the reins over to someone who would do it better justice aka a much better modder.

- I am not experienced in 3D Modelling, right now i"m just reading tutorials and watching vids on how to do things (but hey we all had to start somewhere). However my friend I mentioned is experienced in 3D modelling and received a college diploma in it.

 

-Scripting was never my thing, I've tried in the past and wasn't able to do much. Back in fallout 3, I was able to make quest that spawned creatures, but never really got past that. So to be honest I'd say I'd have no skill in it

 

@Jcdenton2012

- Rebuilding the dungeons in fallout 4 is very time consuming, right now I'm working on Vault 15, I've so far recreated the 1st level and am now trying to decorate it. I'm mostly just doing this to see if I can, and get familiar with CK again.

- As for voice acting, your probably right I can't use the original voices ripped from Fallout 1. Although that is a desire to making it, right now I'd be happy with more text based dialog, since most dialog was text in the first fallout game.

- I appreciate you letting me use your mods, or at least check them out. If I do ever manage to get this project off the ground (which probably isn't very likely if it's just me and a friend) then I'll be sure to give you full credit for either using your mods or just using them as a template to recreate certain areas.

[Tenamil]

@seekinghesun

- No worries, I never took your comment as you trying to shoot me down. As I never started this forum to say "Hey guys look what I'm gonna do". I posted on this forum because I know I can't do it, I really want to learn but my skill is no where near close enough to take on a project like this. I just wanted to get the idea out there, so skilled modders like yourself, or anyone who reads this post can wonder to themself if it's possible, and if they could do it. I would love to help and learn from you all but like i said I don't have the modding skills to lead a project like this.

- As for your challenge, I'll give it a try. It may take me longer then a week, coz I have 12 hours shifts for the next 7 days and kids. Regardless if I meet your timeline or not I'll still show my work, and hopefully you can critic it for me.

[seekingthesun]

Oh well, yeah if you've got kids and work a 64 hour workweek, then that's different.