eienkage1 Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 (edited) Hey there Nexus! I just recently installed and modded Skyrim up to the gums (again), but the Main Menu has just been looking a little duller and duller every time I open it. (Frequent crashing and reopening doesn't help, but I digress.) So, I got to thinking, and I thought of this: Would it be possible to have the main menu screen be your most recent player character, (cloak blowing ever so gently in the brisk Skyrim air), reading off of the most recent save game? I would love to personally make this mod, but I have absolutely no idea where to begin! Edited May 11, 2013 by eienkage1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokerine Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 What you could do would be just use a cool screenshot of your character as a base, and then make your own replacer background. It's what I did :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eienkage1 Posted May 11, 2013 Author Share Posted May 11, 2013 My thought and hope for the mod would be something dynamic, and unique to every user as they are playing through the game. I might look into doing that in the interim, though! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eienkage1 Posted May 18, 2013 Author Share Posted May 18, 2013 Since it's been a little bit with no further replies, I thought I'd have at this again. I've gone through the Creation Kit a couple of times but there does not seem to be any access to the content of the main menu. (The logo, as well as the background smoke both have bits in there, but no uses through the CK in reference to the main menu.) I have not yet downloaded any of the wallpaper (or the spinning main menu logo) mods in order to sort of reverse engineer them, but I'm hoping it doesn't come to that... I'm still pretty much a beginner as far as scripts and coding goes. So, again, is there any modders out there who would be willing to tackle this challenge? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsharaMeradin Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 The problem with displaying a dynamic player image in the main menu or loading screens is that the displayed image is a rotatable 3d mesh. The player character is comprised of a body mesh, a hand mesh, a foot mesh, a head mesh as well as a hair mesh. Not to mention eyes, armor, weapons and anything else. All these parts have to be brought together into a single mesh in order to be displayed. It cannot be done dynamically. Does not mean that there isn't someone capable of taking your current character and piecing the parts together, just means that there is no way to take the data and stitch it together properly while in the game. However, if you would like some variety in the image displayed in the main menu... you can go to the LSCR forms (Object Window > Misc > LoadScreens) find one you'd like to see on the main menu, either edit it and change the ID name or duplicate it, remove any display text and check the box that indicates it is for the main menu. Should then show up on occasion in the main menu. That is theory tho... not tested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eienkage1 Posted May 18, 2013 Author Share Posted May 18, 2013 (edited) So, there's no way to read the character model and equipped items out of the save file to display? After seeing that several (although not all) of the Main Menu wallpaper mods require SKSE, I was inclined to think that the wouldn't be any way for it but to do it through a script. But from what you've said, maybe it would be possible to read the character data from the save, and display it as a static .nif. Although that does seem like a more difficult proposition that just telling Skyrim "DISPLAY THIS HERE DUDE." I dunno. :/ Edited May 18, 2013 by eienkage1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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