I think Gizmo might be my favourite Guar companion so far. Not only does he work extremely well, but he's adorable; I love his personality! Thank you! :)
Is Gizmo compatible with retextures for regular guars? If not, could you add compatibility for this retexture mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/42521 I honestly find it looks a lot nicer than the base game look for Guars.
Hi, I'm Monaluxstesblog, and I just wanted to say thank you for Gizmo. Again. Thank you for keeping him maintained and updated, and thank you for making him. He brings me so much joy, and I do use him in every play through now, I even keep a backup of him in my personal files just in case something ever happens to the nexus. It makes me so happy to see so many other people love him as well.
PS I actually thought I left a comment back in April but I believe a blip in the wifi might have eaten it, as I don't see it here. My apologies if I did somehow double post though.
Hey! Good to hear from your again. I know you at least said something on Tumblr, but I'm thrilled to hear that you're still enjoying this mod! Out of all of the giveaway mods I did on Tumblr, this one is definitely my favorite. Gizmo will always have a special place in my heart. And, like you, I'm glad that other people have accepted him as well.
Hi MD - Just thought I would put in a little note here; Updated to the latest version and whenever Gizmo forages, he sometimes does so about eight feet off the ground. Not sure if that is because I updated mid-game or whatnot, but thought you might like to know. Other features seem to work fine so far. Will keep you updated!
Fantastic mod that is a ton of fun. I can't decide if Gizmo is more of a companion, pet, or adventuring swiss army knife. He does so many useful things. Definitely will be at my side for the foreseeable future. There are 2 small bits of polish that I think Gizmo might benefit from. The first is some sort of teleportation amulet (guarporter?). Despite your veteran coding prowess, I often play like a spastic monkey on meth, so I do lose Gizmo from time to time. The second is some dialog choices have no way to exit/cancel out of. The Magicka dump is especially painful if I click it with full management and no soulgem, as I have to pick one of those options.
One last question. I am probably way overthinking here, but I am fascinated by Gizmo's foraging. I've worked with animals for the better part of 20 years, and Gizmo forages very much like an actual animal. Is this some scripting sorcery you did?
I'm glad you're enjoying playing with Gizmo! Your suggestions directly inspired the 1.2.0 update. In case you don't want to start a new game, I think it should be safe to update mid-game. I'd suggest backing up your save first just to be safe and cleaning with Wrye Mash after updating. Normally, you'll get the new "pet whistle" item when you first meet Gizmo, but if you're updating mid-game, you can add it to your inventory with the following command: `player->additem "mdFG_key_02" 1`
Thanks for the suggestions and have fun playing!
Oh, and on foraging: I don't want to pull back the curtain too much, but Gizmo does wander around and have a random chance of finding some tasty morsels that I thought would simulate real life animals pretty well. I'm glad you think I accomplished it! I really like that feature.
Is your MWSE up to date? I just tested this and confirmed that I can still revive Gizmo. Is it possible that you captured a modded guar? It actually needs to be either the vanilla guar or guar_feral IDs.
ill try with other guars lol if i find.reviving process goes and gizmo can be seen for a moment but matrix form comes after that and souls used is in my inventory. Hmm ive 5 wild guar souls and now it worked,im using some mods but finding the "original" guar takes some time.by the way reviving process doesnt take soul game its still in my inventory.thx for the answer
Just wanted to Endorse for how well made he is, sadly personally don't like him since hearing clank clank clank 24/7 is hea.... it even louder then Rex >_> who dared to be a annoying "brain dead" replacement for meat. And while metal makes more noise then meat like rex it just doesn't sound good imo. (Honestly 100% understand and fine with it be odd if it didn't make the noise with its heavy body especially just no thanks :D ).
What causes him to produce the auto-repair and adv auto-repair "potions"? He was producing them at one point in my game and is no longer doing so thus I am curious what caused him to do it in the first place, what the script is called and where I would find it so I can attempt to troubleshoot
Those potions shouldn't ever be available to the player to loot from Gizmo. They're just used in his [Reward] dialogue topic to heal him when you feed him. If you managed to acquire some, the dialogue conditions to add the potion and then equip them probably just didn't fire properly.
Well that makes more sense, hehe - I had not noticed him healing much when the potions were being produced but he is healing now that they are not. The weird thing is he was producing them even when I did not feed him, which is why I thought it must be a script of some sort. I was considering going in and editing them to be a little less awe inspiring.
I have no idea what caused the potions to be produced instead of being used and I am equally ignorant of what I could have done to fix it - it seemed rather spontaneous.
I can tell you that I am VERY good at "breaking" programs - so good that my developers at work consider it an incredible feat to produce a program that I cannot break. I am their main guinea pig since the assumption is if I can't break it, no one can
Really cute little guy you created here. Dialogue is fabulous on him. I am thoroughly enjoying this mod
Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying the mod. I'll dig into the functionality of the feeding/healing a bit more. Could be that the potion isn't always consumed by Gizmo or something.
Okay... that was embarrassing, I enabled it, but have been having the problem described by Gnollsy, and am unsure what to do . I don't know how to install the MWSE component to gizmo. Google didn't help. While I had him it was a wonderful mod.
Have you updated to the latest version of MWSE? Send me your MWSE.log file after you update and encounter the issue and I can see if anything is cropping up,
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I honestly find it looks a lot nicer than the base game look for Guars.
PS I actually thought I left a comment back in April but I believe a blip in the wifi might have eaten it, as I don't see it here. My apologies if I did somehow double post though.
There are 2 small bits of polish that I think Gizmo might benefit from.
The first is some sort of teleportation amulet (guarporter?). Despite your veteran coding prowess, I often play like a spastic monkey on meth, so I do lose Gizmo from time to time.
The second is some dialog choices have no way to exit/cancel out of. The Magicka dump is especially painful if I click it with full management and no soulgem, as I have to pick one of those options.
One last question. I am probably way overthinking here, but I am fascinated by Gizmo's foraging. I've worked with animals for the better part of 20 years, and Gizmo forages very much like an actual animal. Is this some scripting sorcery you did?
Thanks for the suggestions and have fun playing!
Oh, and on foraging: I don't want to pull back the curtain too much, but Gizmo does wander around and have a random chance of finding some tasty morsels that I thought would simulate real life animals pretty well. I'm glad you think I accomplished it! I really like that feature.
Hmm ive 5 wild guar souls and now it worked,im using some mods but finding the "original" guar takes some time.by the way reviving process doesnt take soul game its still in my inventory.thx for the answer
And while metal makes more noise then meat like rex it just doesn't sound good imo.
(Honestly 100% understand and fine with it be odd if it didn't make the noise with its heavy body especially just no thanks :D ).
but he's too darn cute for me to be upset at all
Does he still heal when you feed him?
I have no idea what caused the potions to be produced instead of being used and I am equally ignorant of what I could have done to fix it - it seemed rather spontaneous.
I can tell you that I am VERY good at "breaking" programs - so good that my developers at work consider it an incredible feat to produce a program that I cannot break. I am their main guinea pig since the assumption is if I can't break it, no one can
Really cute little guy you created here. Dialogue is fabulous on him. I am thoroughly enjoying this mod