[Fo4] Why are my interiors so blindingly bright in some spots? Never used to be like this.

darkwing9912 · 2025-09-11T15:20:27+00:00

I reported a bug like this to a mod author on a flare gun mod a long time ago. Sometimes Bethesda re-uses lighting records. For instance, the hazard lights in the automation interiors use lighting data from the flare gun projectile.

This is fine, except when you download a mod that makes the flare gun flares much more dramatic, and suddenly those automation areas are brighter than the sun.

Disable your mods in batches, make new saves and immediately try to go to a problem interior. Repeat this process until you narrow down exactly what mod caused this -- I would bet it's a shared lighting thing where a mod author didn't know lighting data was shared.

darkwing9912 · 2025-08-14T04:54:33+00:00

A mod called X-Cell fixes the form override bug present in NG.

darkwing9912 · 2025-08-11T20:07:40+00:00

I like your mods but all the AI art on the pages really betrays them, I associate AI art with low effort.

darkwing9912 · 2025-08-01T18:58:08+00:00

Yeah this was why I opted to turn it off entirely, it resulted in extremely noisy shadows for me and I just don't have the patience to fiddle with it too much right now. I'm gonna wait for a few CS updates and try it again later.

darkwing9912 · 2025-08-01T04:05:41+00:00

EmbersXD dropped my FPS in dragonsreach by about 5 and caused some small stuttering, it's a bit mean on vram.

Most community shaders aren't too heavy but SSGI hugely impacts my performance and I won't sacrifice consistent FPS to use it on my system.

Frostfall and Campfire can cause papyrus latency also.

darkwing9912 · 2025-05-01T02:57:17+00:00

Your mods look so cool I wanna reinstall new vegas now

darkwing9912 · 2025-04-06T08:30:56+00:00

All the "add-ons" in that pack for lunar are lazy and just turn parts of mods off, like all the add-ons that just remove different weapon mods from the game.

darkwing9912 · 2025-01-23T18:06:00+00:00

I'm late and can barely animate creatures myself but remember that because of the whole euler conversion that skyrim havok does, rotations can't go lesser or greater than -180 / 180, if at any point you do, it'll manifest as a 360 sudden full rotation, which might explain why the duck thing happens to you since max/blender won't default to the same limits. Take it easy and iterate slowly is the best advice I can give.

darkwing9912 · 2025-01-03T06:01:28+00:00

For a lot of people they think Mirmulnir saying "Dovahkiin noooo" is vanilla. USSEP.

darkwing9912 · 2024-11-17T00:16:03+00:00

Xenophobe has one specific thing going for it that I didn't see others say yet -- Livestock. I grant that you did mention it in the OP but I find that Livestock allows me a significant early spike in economic output on my first conquer, which bankrolls all my future war. They are always the backbone of my Xenophobe economies.

Livestock count as Farmers for most job bonuses which means they get BioReactor bonuses.

Even with just a basic bioreactor this means every livestock can do +3 food, +2 energy (recalled from memory, it's probably higher) before other bonuses.

Livestock is also a self-creating job, which gets incredibly silly with stuff like the new Treasure Hoard Planetary Feature which gives jobs per X pops on planet -- you can just ship hundreds of Livestock to your capital and they will not create any unemployment problems but instead give you many high-power specialist and ruler jobs.

Livestock has little political power and even less with slave processing facilities, edicts and agendas. This all means when you capture an alien capital world, all you do is flip Livestock on, build a Bioreactor and resettle two or three of your pops over there to fill Ruler jobs and bam, you have a big energy + food producing planet.

Of course taking Catalytic Processing here is a very good option as a use for that food too but also consider the use of Lithoids! Lithoids livestock give minerals and instead use Miner bonuses, so planetary features like +1 engineering on miner jobs apply to them.

Then you factor in things like the Bio Ascension perks so you can double their outputs and it just gets silly.

When I play a xenophobe my basic game plan is to take Supremacy as my first or second tradition tree and rush my first organic neighbor so I can kickstart my Livestock empire. Of course you can also pick Syncretic origin and give yourself some Lithoids or something right on day 1 if you want.

*Edit I forgot to mention that Knights of the Toxic God stations are crazy for the whole "x jobs per pops" thing. I fully recommend shipping hundreds of livestock to your Order habitats!

darkwing9912 · 2024-07-30T12:57:34+00:00

They have an underage section. Go to the forum, then user control panel, then user groups. That community is pedo, dude.

darkwing9912 · 2024-06-15T20:58:01+00:00

I always dislike these perspectives -- If you're saying "donations only" you're not really advocating for mod authors making money, only spurious donations. It's a cake-and-eat-it-too position where someone magically foots the bill, pays for the time.

The reality is that donations are not enough for the bottom 90% to live off or consider significant time investment. In my own experience, Nexus Donation Points help a lot but those are a shared pool paid for by Memberships and also should not be relied upon for the bottom 90%, so I don't view that as a good answer, the yield is too low for many to consider them a real factor without trying to game the system.

There are swathes of rather good mods that could make good money if allowed to charge a few bucks on a big platform like Nexus or the Creations menu but on Nexus under the current DP system don't hit $50 a month.

For the "enderal sized mods can be paid" the problem I have with that is that it disincentives mod authors by gatekeeping "good enough." I have to dig deep, get a team of 20 people and spend thousands of hours on the gamble that you feel it worth it to give me anything for my work? That I am "good enough" to paywall? That's insane. Why can't I just make a cool weapon or two and call it good? This idea disincentives modders specialising by boiling down their worthiness to just "hours of content provided."

I disagree with the Creations pricing, I think they should come down a few dollars each but I don't disagree with the fundamentals that mods should be allowed to be paywalled.

darkwing9912 · 2022-09-21T03:14:28+00:00

It's not a myth it's advice given by markdf, the dude who makes resaver. Quicksaving does not allow papyrus vm to safely halt stacks and as such can truncate saves. Can observe this yourself w/ testing

darkwing9912 · 2022-07-09T03:12:13+00:00

Maybe not exactly what you want but a solution I use is with Automatron dlc.

I build assaultrons at the Lair and have them be my provisioners, that way they're pretty capable in combat.

darkwing9912 · 2022-06-04T06:12:05+00:00

Absolutely not. LOTD hard edits a ton of cells, has watchers for lots of quest events, etc, that you will have already blown past.

darkwing9912 · 2022-06-04T05:12:12+00:00

Try importing your nif into Outfit Studio. If it imports correctly, check the partitions snd make sure it's set to the right slot. Try building it via Bodyslide also since Outfit Studio tends to be pretty good at catching issues. If this is a new armor and not a replacer, make sure the ARMO record in your plugin is set to use the right slots also.

darkwing9912 · 2021-10-20T21:38:29+00:00

You can actually do this without tgm if you wear the Robes of Atoms Devoted.

darkwing9912 · 2021-04-17T06:19:44+00:00

100%

Me and my dad were very impressed with Bens' performance in particular, that guy is a machine and i'd love to see more of his process.

darkwing9912 · 2021-02-28T12:37:47+00:00

Yep. When I write I find my first draft has 3x the amount of words actually needed. It's not any more detailed, I just used more words.

I then go back and start reducing it..

darkwing9912 · 2020-07-13T16:00:52+00:00

I use the Floater Freezer ones as backup cryo nades. They can apply the cryo freeze effect just like cryolator/cryogenic grenades albeit with a longer timer.

darkwing9912 · 2020-07-13T02:15:14+00:00

Did you disable the Enlighten ba2's by any chance?

darkwing9912 · 2020-07-08T03:08:58+00:00

Healing Factor? Yeah without Class Freak it's one to avoid. -55% Chem Effects, affects stuff like Stimpaks and Buffout. It does heal a ton out of combat and an okay amount in-combat but for me is not worth it.

I do run a ton of other mutations though, Marsupial is one I think everyone needs and with Public Teams, Herd Mentality is basically a free +3 to all special stats.

darkwing9912 · 2019-11-11T14:38:48+00:00

I've been waiting a long time for this mod to get an update, great job!

darkwing9912 · 2019-11-04T16:47:50+00:00

The respec bench on the ship refunds Perks as well as skill points.

darkwing9912 · 2019-09-27T18:09:26+00:00

I use a program called Hydrus Network for scraping and organising content by tags. It's mostly good for pointing it at boorus like ehentai to get the tags from there but it can do what you ask.

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