Mod articles
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JotSS - Developer Notes
Journal of the Sole Survivor breaks some new ground in Fallout 4 modding.
In this article, I describe the technical challenges of creating JotSS and provide general technical information about how the mod works.
So let's get down to it!
JotSS is a Scaleform (SWF) application running in a holotape program.
As a holotape program, it lives in the Data\Programs\ directory. Other holotape programs in the base game include: Red Menance, Pipfall, and all holotape games. Holotape games don't have to be, well, games! Holotape programs are all Scaleform applications that start with a blank state. There's no terminal interface and no multi-level lists, just...