Fallout 4 Creation Kit Options

[SubRosa]

Fallout 4 works a lot differently than FO3, so I created a new topic for using its Creation Kit.

In F4 all workbenches are also containers that you can store your crafting items in. All of the workbenches in a settlement share a single inventory. If you are creating your own home and have multiple workbenches, you can link all of their inventories by doing the following:


First you need a Workshop - by this I mean the crafting station/workbench that you use for settlement construction. You can create your own, or use an existing one if you want to tie your new workbenches to that particular settlement. Even if you are just building a player home and don't want to use it to create a full blown settlement, you still need the Workshop. In that case you can place the Workshop station under the ground, or someplace otherwise inaccessible if you want.

Next place your new Armor, Weapons, PA, etc... Workbenches.

Double click on each to open their Reference windows, and go to the "Linked Ref" tab.

Leave this open, and find your Workshop in the render window.

Return to your new workbench's Reference window, and in the blank field under Linked Ref right click, and in the box that pops up, click on New.

In here click on Select Ref In Render Window.

This gives you a red crosshair in the Render window. Use it to click on the Workshop.

That brings up a new window setting it as a Linked Ref. Look down in that window to the Keyword field. In it select

WorkshopItemKeyword.

Click on Ok to close that window. That takes you back to your Workbench Reference window. Click on Ok to close that.

Do the same with the rest of your workbenches.

Done. Now all of the workbenches will share the same inventory.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Feb 21 2017, 12:08 AM

[mALX]

Oh, and I actually made a few of those "Static Collections" in game! A dinner table setting with food on it; a vase with a doily under it; and a lit cigarette in an ashtray. The meal came out fantastic! I'll try to take a screenshot of it.

The doily and vase needs editing; the doily is not exactly below the vase like it should be = haven't figured out how to edit it yet.

I will pass along the suggestion to create a single mods section. I was going to PM you that I moved your post, but got caught up in other things, and just forgot. I am sorry.

One problem with trying to remove things with the console in Fallout 4 is that the game is filled with triggers and fogs and special effects. They often prevent you from selecting objects, because you wind up selecting them instead without realizing it. Sometimes it can help to use the TCL command to become intangible. Then you can move right up onto (or even into) what you want to delete. Even then it still does not always work.

There used to be a mod called Better Console that would give you the name of everything you selected with the console. But sadly it used F4SE, and one of the game's updates made it stop working, and cause CTDs. I really miss that. Because with it you always knew what you were really clicking on.

Thank you; I would appreciate that. It doesn't make sense to me that the whole section remains only for Oblivion mods over a decade later when all these other games we are modding use versions of the same creation engine and all are Bethesda games anyway.

I wondered why we didn't have a script extender anymore. Yes, I can have an item highlighted in game and double-click on it; and end up with "Distant Cloud" 93% of the time. I was considering right clicking on the items in the Cell View window to edit or remove them instead; but I heard a warning about doing that too.






This post has been edited by mALX: Jan 13 2019, 10:36 PM