CRACKLE - Comforting fires for the discerning hobo - 1.0.7

 

What it is:

I felt like something was missing from Fallout 4. I start a lot of new games where my character has nothing, and nowhere to go. Often using my light alternate start mod DLYH. Many times I'd get caught out in the rain only to come upon a fire. I usually roleplay being grateful to have the warmth, but the game itself gives me no such feedback and after a while such willful  "making your own fun" gets tiresome, so I thought: "What if the fires did SOMETHING... Anything... even if very small. So I made this little mod.

 

What it does:

Exposure and warmth:

Now when you come upon a open fire in the world, such as a bonfire, campfire, or fire barrel, it will grant you a little bonus to endurance and added protection against diseases in survival mode. You have to sit by the fire a while to warm up before the effect starts, but once it does it will persist as long as you stay near, and for a few minutes after you leave (less if it's raining) The disease protection is particularly useful if you eat in front of the fire, or sleep by it. I personally think this is very realistic and immersive.

 

Rain will now cool you off. There is no negative effect to this except if you get too cold it will take you longer to get warmed at the fire and receive the buff. If you are cold and not near a fire being under shelter will warm you up slowly, until you no longer have the cold time penalty at a fire. I didn't feel it was necessary to make rain more punitive as the vanilla game already raises your disease chance from being out in rain. It also works with snow.

 

Swimming makes you soaking wet, which makes you cold. You will slowly warm up when cold if the sun is out. as well as when in cover, but you will not warm up without a fire at night, unless you are under shelter, you will however dry from being soaking wet to merely cold. (If it's not raining)

 

Forage for wood, with potential dangerous encounters. However if your legs are crippled you won't be able to do this!

 

It works with fires in the world, as well as with the Workshop campfire and fire barrel added by Wasteland Workshop. It also works out of the box with the following camping mods:

 

 

Kitcat's camping gear (Recommended. Fires and tents as shelter!. Get "Firewood" item, and manual from MCM, and then forage for wood!)

Campsite (Fires, Forage for firestarting kits instead of wood.)

Advanced needs 2 (Fires)

Conquest (Fires)

Buildable burning campfires and fireplaces  (Fires)

Woody's Wasteland Stuff (Fires)

 

Sit or sleep anywhere, with Survival mode saving:

Now, you can sit on the ground, or on top of most even surfaces whenever you like. You have several positions to choose from including a wounded sit. After you sit you'll be presented with a menu. You can either just sit and look around with the free camera or wait for increments of one hour or 5. Unlike Vanilla waiting this is instant which is a RL time saver. (The method used is safe and will advance AI and scripts properly, it's the same one used in the firewood foraging) When you are done sitting and get up. (Re-open the menu by hitting the hotkey/MCM button again) if you waited the game will then save.

 

Now you can sleep on the ground (and again most even surfaces), as well as benches and couches. The mod uses AAF which will scan the area for couches and benches you can sleep on If none are found you sleep on the ground (or whetever you are standing on/in.) By default you will only actually latch onto the furniture 75% of the time. If you want you can up that percentage to 99 in the AAF.ini but if you do I suggest that you you reduce the furniture scan distance to something smaller like 200, that way you can decide if you want a particular piece of furniture more easily by standing by it..

 

When you lay down after a moment a menu will appear and you can choose to sleep, lay there with free camera or get up. If you choose lay there simply hit the hotkey/MCM option again in order to bring back the menu.

 

Unlike waiting this uses the vanilla sleep system. In survival mode, sleeping not near a fire is treated the same as using a sleeping bag. (3 hrs by default), wheras sleeping by a fire is treated like a Mattress (5 hrs) Because it uses the vanilla system mods that affect sleeping on sleeping bags and Mattresses will affect it. I've subtly altered the 2 messages warning that you can't oversleep on these items to be more immersive and frankly fit better with other vanilla messages and not sound like a preachy tutorial.

 

 

When near a fire an option to play a hand warming animation (either standing or kneeling also occurs. To stop warming your hands simply hit the Hotkey/MCM option again. (May take a few seconds) 

 

Known issues:

If it stops raining while you are warm and by the fire you may temporarily have both the long and short version of the of the effect. I dunno if this actually makes the effects stack but they'll only overlap for 2 minutes so... have at it. ? 

 

Do not load the game while sitting, lying down, or warming your hands. Get up, stop what you are doing, or finish sleeping first. Otherwise you will break your pipboy and interactions completely and have to quit all the way out of Fallout 4 and reload.

 

Occasionally if you try to sit on a CHALLENGING spot AAF which is used to handle the sitting and laying animations may get confused and take you for a walk like you are a mind controlled zombie. Just wait it out... eventually it'll resolve and usually put your body where you wanted it... Though your camera may be far from it.

 

Requirements:

Wasteland Workshop

Mod Configuration Menu

Advanced Animation Framework v161.1 or above

 

LEGAL:

The source code is provided for you to make personal changes, should you wish to. It is not provided for you to alter, compile and redistribute your own version of the mod. The mod, Crackle is only allowed to be hosted and downloaded from Lover's Lab, and the Nexus, under my specific user accounts. 

 

THANKS:

@dagobaking for AAF which makes animation mods like this possible.

@requiredname65 for script input, and 1.07 update.

@elzee for the sound effect permissions.

Those of you that actually come in the non adult section ?