Truly insane mod, great variety when used with Unique NPC for different face, body and skin.
My load order is:
Easy NPC (and all other NPC face/body mods before it) Meliora Militarized Minuteman Injected Elianora and Mercenaries (https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/54265) Look at Me Series (all)
One question, is it possible to use Meliora together with Backpacks of the Commonwealth, Enhanced Commonwealth Wardrobe and More Outfit Variations? Can these 3 Patches from you used together or do i need to merge something?
It's similar in some ways as the Look At Me series but Meliora only uses vanilla assets. You can overwrite this mod with other faction clothing overhauls like the Look At Me series.
Actually, there's some unnecessary texture edits like lowering saturation by 5% and few textures are lower quality than HD DLC. I think they need to be looked through and redone with proper compression.
Most of the textures are pulled from the HD DLC, edited in photoshop to fit the need, and compressed in BC7. Some textures from the HD DLC were scuffed and the original textures looked much better in terms of color and detail, so they were edited and used instead.
And to my knowledge BC7 is the best quality retaining compression, so I have been using it for all my mods. I'm not a big texture guy, but this is how I learned it.
Are you sure? Science Scribe, Institute Worksuit, Raider 4 Body are in 1K resolution. Regarding to compression you should only compress to BC7 if the texture contains smooth gradients or alpha mask or is an normal map or specular map. Any other diffuse texture should be compressed to BC1 without any quality difference compared to BC7. I already fixed that in my game but you should also if you want to make your mod optimal quality.
Any plans to make bodyslides for body mods, like CBBE? Maybe convert the lvl lists edits to use Leveled Item Framework (LIF) for better mod compatibility? Will this just stick to clothing, or do you have plans to integrate some weapons too? "Removed all the "clean" clothing lingering in the commonwealth" Does this include the upper stands people in Diamond City, Skinny Malone, and the bouncer ghoul from the 3rd rail in Goodneighbor?
I don't care for body mods, everything is vanilla so it should work out of the box with whatever one you use. Never looked at LIF. It's by DankRafft so maybe in the future I'll peek at it. The lingering clothing refers to physical items, like a clean black suit laying on top of a cabinet in the dirty wasteland. It does not do vendors or container inventories (like when you open the cabinet). People still wear clean stuff, laundry machines still exist. Especially when someone wants to appear better then everyone else, like the stand people.
And regarding weapons, I actually have a notepad with the redistribution already done. But weapons are a pain in the ass and making the mod itself is going to be a lot of work. I instantly lost interest when I saw how much. It's very likely never happening.
Thanks for the clarification, I highly recommend you check out LIF it's a thing for modders to add stuff to level lists in a way that doesn't really conflict with other mods, liked scripted injection but easier and supposedly safer. Might even get you to reconsider weapon integration
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My load order is:
Easy NPC (and all other NPC face/body mods before it)
Meliora
Militarized Minuteman
Injected Elianora and Mercenaries (https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/54265)
Look at Me Series (all)
Does this load order make sense?
Thank you so much for this great mod.
One question, is it possible to use Meliora together with Backpacks of the Commonwealth, Enhanced Commonwealth Wardrobe and More Outfit Variations?
Can these 3 Patches from you used together or do i need to merge something?
Thanks for your support and your mods
This should be compatible and match very well, right?
Raider Armor Paints Redux at Fallout 4 Nexus - Mods and community (nexusmods.com)
I read in the comments of this mod something about modcol distribution. Not sure what this means.
Sorry if i bother you with so much questions.
And to my knowledge BC7 is the best quality retaining compression, so I have been using it for all my mods. I'm not a big texture guy, but this is how I learned it.
Regarding to compression you should only compress to BC7 if the texture contains smooth gradients or alpha mask or is an normal map or specular map. Any other diffuse texture should be compressed to BC1 without any quality difference compared to BC7.
I already fixed that in my game but you should also if you want to make your mod optimal quality.
And regarding weapons, I actually have a notepad with the redistribution already done. But weapons are a pain in the ass and making the mod itself is going to be a lot of work. I instantly lost interest when I saw how much. It's very likely never happening.