Schubalts posted:

Because people like getting credit for the work they do? It's not a horrible ego trip to want to be given credit when your work is snatched up by someone else and then uploaded to a site like Nexus. Pulling all of your mods over something like that is less understandable, though.

Naky posted:

Really? Good riddance then. The more guys with attitudes like this that leave, the better off the community might actually be for the long term. We absolutely need to get rid of this ridiculous ego trip every author requires to have stroked with every stroke of the keyboard they make.

Newsflash: the game is easily moddable and therefore so are your mods. Get over it - the secret was never a secret in the first place and your work and code is exposed for all to see. Why get mad over it and why not just embrace this fact and encourage people to do things with it anyway? If you don't like the prospect of people looking at your work and using portions of it, don't even start it in the first place!

I don't get it and I never have. Not since the Morrowind days when I was heavy into the Gamebryo modding scene and even more so now. [/rant]

Captain McStabbin posted:

The way I see it is that they at least want some acknowledgement for the time they put in. It would be like if you wrote a paper that was about something totally new, then someone came along and used your research and paper without any credit, then got really famous because of it.

However, given the situation, removing all one's mods over something like this is ridiculous, but I can at least understand wanting a couple words that give credit where credit is due.

FAKE EDIT: Or rather, if someone took large portions of your weapon mod and passed the work off as their own. If I were you in this hypothetical situation, I'd be pretty angry, but then again, I'm not you and no one is probably going to steal your work considering your mod is probably going to be goon only.

Captain McStabbin posted:

FAKE EDIT: Or rather, if someone took large portions of your weapon mod and passed the work off as their own. If I were you in this hypothetical situation, I'd be pretty angry, but then again, I'm not you and no one is probably going to steal your work considering your mod is probably going to be goon only.

Captain McStabbin posted:

got really famous because of it.

nomad2020 posted:

I agree with you about the credit thing, everyone likes credit (unless your ashamed of the work) but is becoming really famous a risk in fallout modding?

nomad2020 posted:

Edit: real question, the only name i know from fallout mods is Martigen, Still a lil broken up that there wont be anymore MMM.

RagnarokAngel posted:

RagnarokAngel posted:

People have a right to feel like their work is attributed to them, even if the level of fame or money is small.

Sure maybe he's overreacting, that's an understandable belief to take. And maybe you as a modder don't care if people use your work without your permission, but someone still has the right to want that in their own work.

Naky posted:

On this point, I do agree with you. As I said, asking for the credit isn't unreasonable and in my case were I doing one weapon I would ask and I would credit specifically. The circumstances of my pack are just so complex that to truly go and get everyone's permission for everything involved - the original modeler, the original texturer, the original animator, the person that ripped the resources from the original sources, the person who got permission to port it from the previous person, etc that Nexus requires is insane. And probably impossible for weapons that were stolen from games like STALKER, Counterstrike, BF2142 and more.

RagnarokAngel posted:

Sorry to draw out this one point but isn't the issue that they didnt give him credit, not that they didnt ask? I know asking people is hard, you might send them an email and they wont reply, if you can even find their email. But is it hard to list where you got it from?

wylker posted:

So I have recently fallen victim to the random crash bug.

Brigg posted:

Hey, just out of curiosity is there a tutorial on how to add new weapons to New Vegas? (Preferably from maya). Cause I've got a few models I made for Source that I think would be cool in FNV.

Like ive got this Makarov that I could dirty up a bit, the screenshot is from HLMV


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wylker posted:

So I have recently fallen victim to the random crash bug.

I'm pretty sure it has something to do with max level or maybe the XFO perk mod, because since I added those it has crashed significantly more. I can obviously remove them if they're issues but I was wondering if maybe I just needed to tweak my order or make a compatibility patch or something. Tia.

lilspooky posted:

What was the mod for Fallout 3 that was like a competitor to FOOK? I know there were like 2 or 3 big overhaul mods. The one I'm talking about was generally considered to be better than FOOK. Does it exist for NV?

KakerMix posted:

Maybe, but that isn't good enough. Listing credits still is looked down on, because you didn't ask permission.

Mental Midget posted:

From my experience IWS and Electro City cause a poo poo ton of crashing, especially together. I can't even run on High Spawns anymore even though my PC is a beast because the spawning system is kinda hosed and cases a lot of crashing. Try diabling Electro City and using IWS Medium and see if that helps.

Edit: Also I could be wrong but I think Caliber.esm should be sorted directly after FalloutNV.esm

wylker posted:

Disabling IWS really isn't an option for me, its one of the things that keeps the game fun =/

I could disable electro city, but I really like the darker nights aspect of it, so I wonder if another mod would be more lightweight and give at least that portion of it.

wylker posted:

Disabling IWS really isn't an option for me, its one of the things that keeps the game fun =/

I could disable electro city, but I really like the darker nights aspect of it, so I wonder if another mod would be more lightweight and give at least that portion of it.

Mr. Crow posted:

See this is what I don't agree with. I believe you need to give credit for everything, because how hard is it to write their name in a text file and what it was they did vs. the time and effort they put into whatever it was you used of theirs; BUT the whole "you have to ask for permission to use anything" is completely retarded and bullshit for a modding community. I could see and agree with taking down mods that don't list author credits if it can be proven, but the whole politic'ing they require on Nexus now is just terrible and drags the community down as a whole, as Naky's not being on Nexus will attest; which coincidently I think you need to put the tiny bit of effort to credit everyone in your readme or whatever, even if you did major retooling on most of them. But I won't lose sleep over it either way and cry for blood if you don't.

Then again you didn't use any of my work

SheepNameKiller posted:

I looked at nVamp, maybe it's just the fact that I have a decent knowledge of FNVEdit but I didn't see much of a use for it. It's not that difficult to get mods working with each other these days, and a lot of the mods they listed as having "incompatibilities" weren't all that incompatible in the first place. I'm pretty sure nVamp is close to being totally useless unless you use FOOK, in which case you do need a compatibility patch for everything since that mod changes everything.

Internet Friend posted:

I don't know of any one tutorial that's up to date, but the gist of what you have to do is:

1) Get Blender 2.49, NifSkope and the nifscripts and install them. The Maya plugin is old and busted, export your model to Blender.
2) Use FOMM's BSA Browser (found under the Tools menu) to extract a gun with similar parts, shape and animation to yours.
3) Import everything into Blender
4) Line up your model with the old one, move the pivots to match the original pivots and freeze transforms (called Apply in Blender). Tweak the sightingNode and projectileNode to line up with the new sight/barrel, and the convexpoly to fit around your gun.
5) Name your objects the same as the original objects so the animations will be able to find them.
5) Put your textures under FONV/Data/textures/whatever and set up your materials. Spec map should be the alpha channel of the normal map.
6) Select the convexpoly, go to the Logic panel (F4 or the button) and make it a Rigid Body, Actor, and set its Bounds to Convex Hull.
7) Export a NIF, press the Fallout 3 button in the list of games. Make sure Shader Options are Default Type, Z Buffer, Empty, Unknown 31 and Use BSFadeNode Root are checked.
8) If your model needs a visibility controller (for things like speedloaders that only show during reload) open up both your gun and the old gun in NifSkope and copy the NiVisController from the old to new gun.
9) Take your gun in game and reload it. Unless your model is exactly the same dimensions as the original it will look broken and the magazine will be out of place after reloading. tfc 1 in the console and take screenshots of how it's busted.
10) Go back into NifSkope, edit the transformations of the NiNode* until it looks broken the same way as in the game, then edit the transforms of the TriStrips until it's fixed. If it's REALLY off the hands of the animation won't line up anymore, but you can't have everything in Gamebryo

(*or the transform in the vector array at very bottom node of the NiVisController if it has one- edit the one that matches the base NiNode)

Obviously you'll need to figure out the GECK to get it in game, but you can just edit the existing gun's entry, give it a new FormID and point it at your model then tweak the values.

I probably forgot something in there but that's more or less what I did making this, plus some scripting to put it into leveled lists.

Mental Midget posted:

Yeah that was kinda my initial impression as well. I did download VVV though because it looks interesting and I always like more variety of enemies.

boner meter posted:

Fallout Wanderers Edition? I remember that being more along the lines of 'Balance and realism = Power-Armoured Supermutant Controllers in squads of 40 every 10 paces as soon as your out of 101, guns fire one shot before splintering into worthless shards in your hands, and being spat on by a bloatfly from across a canyon splinters your legs like breadsticks.

Amstrad posted:

Wow.. is this how people are doing it these days?
I've just been using NifSkope to import .obj versions of each of my weapon parts and then copy & pasting over the existing NiTriStripsData of a vanilla Fallout weapon.