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[Renee]

Mod-making thread basically, which focuses heavily on quest-making. The first two tutorials (How to make a fetch quest and how to make a kill quest) are very hand-holdy. They are designed for those who are just starting to learn the art of quest-making. Other tutorials get more advanced, as my wacky ideas have pushed their boundaries.

Just click on any of the links in the post below this one.


Bethesda Units. (How distance compares in-game to real-life).

Xpadder Walkthrough page. Xpadder is a site which allows gaming controllers to mimic the key & mouse functions. Xpadder, or similar programs such as Joy to Keys, are absolutely crucial to get the most out of older games such as Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, and Oblivion, for those who prefer controllers. They can also be used for newer games (Fallout 3/NV or Skyrim) to provide alternate controlling scenarios during times when a game's native D-pad arrangement needs to be shut off.




This post has been edited by Renee: Apr 16 2024, 06:27 PM

[Renee]

Map Marker Tutorial, Game: Fallout 3

Firstly, with some vanilla locations added by Bethesda themselves, these can sometimes be hard to find in the Render window. An example: Nuka Cola Plant. I needed to add the reference ID for its map marker into a script, yet where is the map marker?

Beth likes to sometimes put map markers UNDERNEATH the location, the building, the settlement we're trying to use. I found Nuka Cola's map marker by tapping on the entire Nuka Cola building, and then rotating the entire image until I was viewing under this building. Voila. There's the map marker, and now I can retrieve its Ref ID: NukaColaMapMarker.

The rest of this lesson shall focus on adding making map markers into the game.


1). Find the worldspace location in the Cell or Render windows.

2). In the Object window > World Objects > Static, find MapMarker, and drag it into the Render window.

Note that the marker itself is green, but it has a large yellow circle surrounding it. Walking into this circle is what causes the marker to appear on the map if we discover a new location.

3). Double left-click on the marker and give it a Reference ID. This is optional, and only needed if the marker's going to be used in scripts, like to make it appear in the map and stuff if somebody says "Let me mark that location on your map." 🌎

4). Click on the Marker Data tab. Toggle Marker Data on, and notice there's now a bunch of other toggles to press.

5). Give the marker a name, type this into the Name slot. This name is what will appear when somebody views the map's marker in-game. Very good.

6). Click on whatever sort of area the marker's going to portray, whether it's a factory or a settlement, or a cave, etc. This changes the marker's actual icon, making it easy to distinguish as what type of location is viewed on the map.

7). There are three other toggles underneath the icon panel:

Visible: The marker starts off visible right from the start of the game, even before the area's discovered or referenced in a script.

Can Travel To: If this toggle is ON it means we can immediately fast-travel there, as long as the icon appears on the map and we're in the world somewhere (not in an interior cell). Visible also needs to be toggled on for this to be an immediate option from the start of the game.

"Show All" Hidden: If this is toggled, the map marker will NOT appear if the ShowAllMapMarkers function is called for.

Normally, none of those three are toggled. So unless the location is supposed to be known to the player right away for some reason (and can also FT there) click OK.

8). Let's say the marker is going to be referenced during dialog, the classic "Let me mark that location on your map". The script necessary is ShowMap MapMarkerReferenceName

... to make it so the place can be fast-traveled to immediately, make that ShowMap MapMarkerReferenceName, 1

9). Final step. When we fast-travel to the location the map marker is not what's actually used to travel to. For this to happen, an XMarkerHeading needs to be placed somewhere. Usually right in front of the place's front door. So drag 'n' drop an XMarkerHeading into the world. Sometimes it helps to give it a Reference ID too.

10). Double left-click on the MapMarker and when the Reference panel pops up, select the Linked Ref tab. Find the XMHeading in the Reference scroll-bar. A green line should connect both markers once OK is clicked.

This post has been edited by Renee: Mar 21 2023, 04:02 PM