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Fallout 4 for Beginners 4.0.7 (OG/NG/AE)


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7 hours ago, Aylis said:

Back from hospital (had a 'not today' moment). but I have to take it slow.

hope everything is OK look after yourself..

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To check:

OCBP LPCE physics                                                                        Got collision spheres and one mod intstead of three.

Institute X-01 and Sentinel T-60                                                No

GEA-5H Plasma Grenade Replacer                                             

G-26 Nuka Grenade Replacer                                                     

Vivid Hair Color Extended DB                                                     Add as an optional file. Subgroup?

     The ESP can be flagged as ESL

W.K Heather Casdin                                                                    Not needed

Commonwealth Iguanas                                                             Already in the game

Raider T-45 Power Armor (Video)                                                 

Enhanced Battle Rifle (Video)                                                        Too similar to the Springfield Armory M1A?

CROSS Courser Strigidae - Fusion Girl Conversion                  Gets replaced

CROSS Courser Strigidae - Fusion Girl Preset                            Finally an official preset

CROSS Institute Expeditionary Suit - Fusion Girl Bodyslide    Gets replaced

CROSS IEX - Fusion Girl Preset                                                    Finally another official preset

City Liner Bus (FO3)                                                                     Looks better than vanilla FO4

     The ESP can be flagged as ESL

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Posted

All mods we need have been updated for AE V221.

 

I'll checck over the weekend if everything works out within the game.

Posted

Have to reinstall my FO4 Installation after getting a new PC so I'm going to use your guide. I haven't bought the AE Version yet. Is it necessary? I'm used to downgrad my game version to 1.10.163 anywhy.

Your guide is specific for 221 I guess, so I have to search the different mod archive for the correct versions.

Also I love the vtaw armor series and I'm sad it is not working with actual game version, or why is it removed from your list? Vtaw is doing such a great work with it and I don't want to miss this in my game.

 

Aylis: Anywhy thumbs up for your work here and best blessing for you.

 

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@schwarzbrand

The guide is for all versions of the game. If you want to downgrade then thats up to you, but then you have to check the versions of the mods you want to install.

 

Bodyslide seems to have some issues with certain presets. Some clip after creation or got missing parts and unless that gets fixed I can't recommend them. My favourite VTAW armor/clothing mods simply stopped working properly so I had to remove them.

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Fixed some typos (hopefully the last ones) and added some notes.

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For those who know more about weapons than I do (weapons are strongly regulated here).

The M16 is old enough and appeared in previous Fallouts. So it is canon and should appear in the 'Vanilla group'. But the 'M4 Platform' mod also has more modern variants included.

 

Should I keep it in 'Modern Additions' or move it to 'Vanilla' and/or 'Vanilla Upgraded'? 

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For those who want to update from AE 191 to AE 221. 

 

You have to update the following mods plus F4SE

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Ignore the '_Backup'

 

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On first glance everything seems to work fine...

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Update - Predone Bodyslides (Fusion Girl)

I updated the following sets:

CROSS_Courser Strigidae    < Was missing before

CROSS IEX                           < Updated files

The Kite's Handmaiden       < Fixed a file error

 

(Re)Download the bodyslides if you use the armors.

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Taking out the AE note from post #1. Everything seems to work with V221, so it is not necessary anymore.

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Posted

I found out why the loading times went up so much. It seems to be an issue with the big texture packs and I'm working on a solution for that.

 

What I have now is one texture pack with ~60GB (which took some time to download) but the loading time at the start roughly halved. And changing locations/cells improved too.

 

Next thing is testing Luxors guide for the LOD. I've extracted the LOD files for the tree LOD and test those now...

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Collecting Links

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Vivid Fallout Textures - All in One                                                       Not needed anymore

Fallout 4 Texture Overhaul - Commonwealth

Fallout 4 Texture Overhaul - DLC

Fallout 4 Texture Overhaul - Fixes and LOD

     Fixed Alpha Maps

     Concrete Retaining Walls Replacer

     Museum of Freedom Banner Fix

     Materials Glowing Sea

     Debris Ground Tile Fix

     LOD Textures

ESC to Menu Close                                                                               A little helper.

Complete Retexture Project                                                               Not needed anymore

Subgroup: Hair Colors

Vivid Hair Color Extended DB                                                             Works better with some ENB

     The ESP can be flagged as ESL

Power Armor Animation Changes

Simple Swinging Meat Bags

CCC Modular Military Backpack - Fusion Girl Preset                        <Upload predone bodyslides

Battlesuit                                                                                               Sort of an improved 'Vault Suit' with equipment.

Battlesuit - FG Preset                                                                           <Upload predone bodyslides

Modular Ops-Core Helmet

Modular Ops-Core Helmet - Textures

CROSS Courser Strigidae - Fusion Girl Conversion                           Gets replaced

CROSS Courser Strigidae - Fusion Girl Preset                                   Bodyslide files are already uploaded

CROSS Institute Expeditionary Suit - Fusion Girl Bodyslide            Gets replaced

CROSS IEX - Fusion Girl Preset                                                           Bodyslide files are already uploaded

Raider T-45 Power Armor (Video

Improved Workshop Bottle Lanterns                                                 Nice lighting.

     Up to you to use the optional file.

Commonwealth Intimidation

Give Me That Bottle Rehydrated

     I recommend to get the RobCo patch too.

Sinking Bodies                                                                                        Immersion

     The ESP can be flagged as ESL

Running Breathing                                                                                 Better sound

Enhanced Battle Rifle (Video)

GEA-5H Plasma Grenade Replacer

G-26 Nuka Grenade Replacer

Survival Hatchet

Survival Hatchet Tweaks

City Liner Bus (FO3)                                                                             Looks better than vanilla FO4

     The ESP can be flagged as ESL

Restore Worldspace Environment Maps

 

 

 

 

Testfile

Combining the LOD files of several mods as a loose collection.

LOD - Extracted Files.7z

 

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Posted
7 hours ago, Aylis said:

I found out why the loading times went up so much. It seems to be an issue with the big texture packs and I'm working on a solution for that.

 

 

Maybe that's why sometimes my game hang up on entering/exiting buildings. I don't have ctd, it's only kinda hang up on loading screen. I'm using this  texture pack. 

Posted (edited)
7 hours ago, Aylis said:

I found out why the loading times went up so much. It seems to be an issue with the big texture packs and I'm working on a solution for that.

 

Sometimes, RobCo Patcher can significantly slow down loading times. In my case, creating ESP/ESL plugins with SAKR sped up loading several-fold. Yes, I had a lot of patched clothing. But keep in mind that my computer is quite old. rx590, 32gb ddr3, xeon e5 (cheenese i5 for servers).

Edited by Samhsay
Posted (edited)

@deff. @Samhsay

I'll go back to the 2K (4K is imho not needed) Luxor textures. So far it looks like the other two packs have gaps and don't cover all textures. 

 

The advantage is that Luxor replaces the vanilla BA2 from Bethesda and puts less stress on the system because of that. The drawback is that it is a lot of separate files and quite big. Or, to word it differently, the mod is harder to download and install (you have to be careful and merge the separate files). 

 

 

Right now I'm trying to rebuild the LOD for the game. Extracting the LOD files from several mods (the trees, rocks, etc.) already took half of the day and I hope I didn't miss something... Then I have to go through all the BA2 again.

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Posted

Download the 6 dlc and 9 texture files manually and open them one by one and put the ba2 textures straight into the main game data root files ,overwriting the the Bethesda ones.. That way the game loads the files quicker than using a mod manager.. You only need to use a mod manger for luxors paving/debris  files etc..

Posted (edited)

@total newby

Yep, you can do that. But if you need to check the files of the game Steam will redownload the Bethesda ones... 

 

I prefer keep them separate as a mod and avoid that issue. Wouldn't be the first time the game chokes on something and a file breaks. Especially if you test so many mods like I do.

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Finally got the LOD creation working with all the texture mods we use.

 

Only 'Misery Island' throws a few errors about missing files for trees. Got to see if I can find and then add those to the extracted files.

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Havn't found them. So we won't have a reworked LOD for that island.

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Working on instructions to (re)create the LOD for the guide. Instructions are done (post #5). 

 

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Posted (edited)

Update to 4.0.7

Bug prevention, LOD creation, mods I had to include and more...

 

Mods to REMOVE

Spoiler

Foundation

Vivid Fallout Textures - All in One                                                       Not needed anymore

 

Details - Textures

Complete Retexture Project                                                                Not needed anymore

 

Armor - Factions - Institute

CROSS Courser Strigidae - Fusion Girl Conversion                           Gets replaced

CROSS Institute Expeditionary Suit - Fusion Girl Bodyslide            Gets replaced

 

Mods to ADD

Spoiler

Preinstallation

xLODGen

 

Foundation

Fallout 4 Texture Overhaul - Commonwealth

Fallout 4 Texture Overhaul - DLC

Fallout 4 Texture Overhaul - Fixes and LOD

     Fixed Alpha Maps

     Concrete Retaining Walls Replacer

     Museum of Freedom Banner Fix

     Materials Glowing Sea

     Debris Ground Tile Fix

     LOD Textures

 

PC

Subgroup: Hair Colors

     Vivid Hair Color Extended DB

          The ESP can be flagged as ESL

 

Physics and Animations

Power Armor Animation Changes

Simple Swinging Meat Bags

 

Armor and Clothing

CCC Modular Military Backpack - Fusion Girl Preset

Battlesuit

     Sort of an improved 'Vault Suit' with equipment.

Battlesuit - FG Preset

Modular Ops-Core Helmet

Modular Ops-Core Helmet - Textures

 

Armor - Factions - Institute

CROSS Courser Strigidae - Fusion Girl Preset 

CROSS IEX - Fusion Girl Preset   

 

Power Armors

Raider T-45 Power Armor (Video)

 

Sound

Running Breathing                                                                                 Better sound

 

Override

Addiction Overhaul

Commonwealth Intimidation

Survival Options

     I won't use it, but it might be useful for those who like 'Survival Mode'.

 

Building - General

Improved Workshop Bottle Lanterns                                                 Nice lighting.

     Up to you to use the optional file.

 

Patches and Fixes

Give Me That Bottle Rehydrated

     I recommend to get the RobCo patch too.

Sinking Bodies                                                                                        Immersion

     The ESP can be flagged as ESL

 

Weapons - Vanilla

G-26 Nuka Grenade Replacer

GEA-5H Plasma Grenade Replacer

Survival Hatchet

Survival Hatchet Tweaks

 

Weapons - Vanilla Upgraded

G-26 Nuka Grenade Replacer

GEA-5H Plasma Grenade Replacer

Survival Hatchet

Survival Hatchet Tweaks

 

Previsibines

Restore Worldspace Environment Maps

City Liner Bus (FO3)                                                                             Looks better than vanilla FO4

     The ESP can be flagged as ESL

Now create the LOD for the game (see post #5)

 

Uploaded

Spoiler

Predone Bodyslides (Fusion Girl)

CCC Modular Military Backpack     < Was missing before

Battlesuit                                          < New bodyslides

CROSS_Courser Strigidae                  < Was missing before

CROSS IEX                                         < Updated files

The Kite's Handmaiden                     < Fixed a file error

 

Created mod (in 'Files')

LOD - Extracted Files

 

New entry

Added a guide in post #5 for the creation of the LOD for the guide.

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  • Aylis changed the title to Fallout 4 for Beginners 4.0.7 (OG/NG/AE)
Posted (edited)

Going through a few video about mods for FO4. There are a few that look interesting, but some will take time to test.

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Explosion VFX Pack (Video)

Workshop Framework Displays                                              Just nope

LK Armor Pack 1                                                                         Adjustable armor mashup for several factions.

LK Armor Pack 1 - Fusion Girl Preset

LK Armor Pack 2                                                                         Adjustable armor mashup for several factions.

LK Armor Pack 2 - Fusion Girl Preset

LK Armor Pack 3                                                                      Would replace several mods, but no FG preset yet.

LK Modular Beret                                                                       This sounds perfect.

Fast Travel Fix - Electrical Hobbyist's Club

Fast Travel Fix - Fens                                                                   Needed? Replacing older mod?

Fast Travel Fix - Vault 81

Fast Travel Fix - Virgil

JAWS - Shack Edition                                                                  Could replace several smaller mods.

Canned Creations - Extended Cooking                                      Good for survival. Normal gameplay too?

Boat To Spectacle Island                                                             This mod just makes sense...

Kingsport Lighthouse Settlement Light Revive                           Immersion

Repairable Sanctuary Bridge

 

Far Harbor                                                                     Have to get there first...

Jurttu's Mods Shared Assets

Jurttu's Interiors - Far Harbor

Far Better Far Harbor - Exploration Expanded

 

 

 

 

Now I'm off to Starlight to check the new building mods...

 

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