Kendo 2

RANT

1000 new members in less than 1 month. That's awesome. And since we're uploading gifs... Looks like the site is 'whipping' into shape...

For normal maps there's this: http://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/ It ain't perfect though but the results are fine for Bethesda's Gambryo tinker toy bullshit. For more modern games you'll need to understand how to copy alphas from one dds to another and how to swap RGB values between layers. As far as Havok goes I remember reading somewhere that the software licensing expired and Zenimax snatched everything up. All of the tool sets modders once had have been removed from the various sites. Basically Zenimax/Bethesda intentionally scuttled Havok development.

There are several problems with this situation; the primary one being that FO4 CBBE is a derivative of the vanilla female Skyrim body mesh. In other words, Bethesda owns CBBE by default. There is nothing Mr. Finland can do other than reporting the content at Bethesda.net and hope they 'do the right thing' and remove the mods. Looking to the Nexus staff for solutions will end with one result; 'sorry about your luck but keep uploading'. Nexus is ran as a business, not a modding community. When you deal with the staff think of them as mall cops, snarky bank tellers or that rude little shit who works at Starbucks. They're inefficient, on a power trip and useless. If Mr. Finland questions them or stirs up more trouble than they can deal with they'll just ban him with a bogus excuse. I've said from day-one that FO4 modding will not be what people are used to and no one believed me.

I personally think the body mod is unattractive. It doesn't matter matter if there are all sorts of tinker toy programs to convert outfits. It's like putting lipstick on a pig and I'm not going to mod for a body that's hacked together and nasty looking. And I don't want my name associated with anything OutfitStudio/BodySlide. I don't have time for amateur hour. I've had people approach me and ask to upload the 'conversions' of my work they've made. My response is always "Send me the files so I can look at them first." I never hear from them again. Another reason for me is the user base for CBBE and the way they have treated me in the past. I never had any dealings with any of them until I uploaded UNP Jiggle and started making outfits for it. That is when the "you used the wrong skeleton" and " if you're not modding BodySlide you're wasting your time" started. The CBBE OutfitStudio wankers were mad that I used a compatibility skeleton that didn't allow for them to simply plug in and screw my hard work into a 10 minute OutfitStudio project conversion. They acted like the pack of no-talent dicks they are and they're still doing it to this day. Now they're just picking on Asenasen and poaching mods from Asian websites. There are entire threads at LL devoted to ripping an poaching from other modders. CBBE fans think it's cool. Yeah, so is Eskimo shit.

Making the models and textures isn't a problem for me. Proper motivation and interest in the game is the killer. I just don't care about FO4 and if I didn't read about it somewhere on a daily basis I'd totally forget the game exists. Something I have noticed is people pleading with modders to make content for FO4. I've never seen that with a Bethesda game. Usually modders dive on new games, but that's not happening with FO4. 'Stop complaining and make mods for it.' 'If you want the game to be better then make mods for it.' etc. So either the game is SO bad that it needs mods to be playable or it's so bad that well-known modders aren't touching it. Agame must have three things for me to take time to mod it; it must be mod compatible, I must enjoy playing it, the fan base can't suck, and there has to be replay value in the base game. The way I see it FO4 gets one out of four; it can be modded...and that's it.

Anatriax has left the building. She's taking some time off from modding.