'Natural'/ Non-junk buildings

[Labigcheeze]

Hello,

I am interested in getting into SS modding and creating some 'natural' buildings for things such as houses, recreation and shops since I despise prewar/ junk houses with a passion and fail to understand why lore wise people (especially those who were born in a post apocalyptic environment and are clearly good with their hands) wouldn't revert back to preindustrial building methods.

Some ideas I have had have been based off medieval building techniques such as wattle and daub and adobe bricks.

Does the game come with sufficient resources to pull this off? I have seen a Shady Sands inspired 'sandcrete' resource pack for NV on the workshop but not much for F4 other than the current offerings of 19th/ 20th century bricks.

 

[msalaba]

Mod authors are mostly locked into using existing game assets at most changing textures. Most authors lack the tools and skills to create new assets. 3DS Max 2013 is mostly unobtainium. There are ways around it using NifSkope and Outfit Studio (3rd party tools), but the process is quite technical. I'm unaware if there are any good tutorials on the subject. I can say that I will never be a graphics artist.

 

[Labigcheeze]

Ah right, I think I might need to do a bit of a rethink then.

Brick could conceivably work quite well, they could plausably be made from 'handcrafted' or adobe bricks like a lot of buildings in third world countries are built from. (The compound villages in Afghanistan come to mind.)

 

[nzukowski]

If you haven't already, I would recommend just playing around with material swaps and kit-bashing in the ck, I think you'll be surprised at what you're able to come up with. It can be frustrating but as long as you keep experimenting and aren't afraid of iteration what you see in game will more and more resemble what your picturing in your head.

 

[Sarge85]

i love this idea too. the ramshackle boards and scraps of sheetmetal drive me nuts. its like no one knows how to build anything postwar in the commonwealth. people would not have completely lost all construction knowledge that quickly. at the very least use the wood as framing and then skinned with the sheet metal pieces lined up like shingles or something.