Fallout 3 Megaton House Mod Options

[mALX]

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My Megaton House mod:



http://imgur.com/a/d2I0B





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This is what your Megaton house usually looks like:



http://media.wouldyoukindly.com/wp-content...egatonhome2.jpg



I'd always loved the Gibson house in Minefield, and wished we had an option to live in it; in fact I usually do till I can get my own place. What I liked best was the feel of a regular family house; and basically their structure was intact. (just dungeony).


http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2013072...se_interior.jpg



So what I did was basically just stick (a copy of) the Gibson house inside the Megaton house for the exterior so it still fits in with the feel of Megaton (see the last three screenshots on the final link below for the exterior screenshots). The interior is the same as the Gibson house's too.


(By the way, in making this mod I discovered that Bethesda did not match up the interior and exterior for the Gibson house, in fact there is no exterior in their entire inventory that matches the Gibson house! Unfortunately, by the time I learned that I'd already put too much work in on it to change interiors; so figured if Bethesda could do it, so could I, lol)


At first I just removed all the dirt piles and swapped the interior pieces out for some from Tranquility Lane:


http://www.supercheats.com/guides/files/gu...llout-3/f32.jpg


It looked much better, but really didn't like the pink striped wallpaper, or that all the rooms looked exactly the same.

What I ended up doing was the same thing I did when I redecorated my own home IRL - going through pictures in magazines or online till I found something I could love. Googling crown molding brought exactly what I wanted, so with a bunch of pasting over of Bethesda's textures, here is the finished mod:


http://imgur.com/a/d2I0B


I love it! Oh, and also added an upper balcony for some private outdoor relaxation - or some outdoor BBQing!!!! Tables, chairs, benches, some food, etc.



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This post has been edited by mALX: Feb 6 2015, 05:14 AM

[SubRosa]

I like the backstory of it being Dr. Braun's house too. Perhaps it had the benefit of being the initial test bed of a prototype GECK? That would also help explain why it looks so spiffy.

[mALX]

I like the backstory of it being Dr. Braun's house too. Perhaps it had the benefit of being the initial test bed of a prototype GECK? That would also help explain why it looks so spiffy.

Thank you so much, SubRosa! Even as I was making that mod, I knew it was not going to be one anyone would want (other than me), but I was learning how to use the Gimp and that was actually my first foray into actually opening up the DDS files and changing them instead of just retexturing meshes.

It was really exciting to be able to do that with the DDS files, I actually got that decor from pictures of rooms with crown molding on the internet - it was exciting to learn how to do something new to begin with, but to be able to take a snapshot of a real house and incorporate it into the game was beyond anything I knew was possible in modding.

It was a blast, really satisfying that it was something all new to me and it worked - but the whole time I was making it, I kept thinking that there would have to be some story to explain it. Of course that automatically had to point to Dr. Braun, he is connected to all the pristine places in the wasteland, lol.

Thank you again, your kind words meant a lot to hear!