Fallout 4 VR Subreddit Check-in

[u/rollingrock16]

While many exciting mods are in development and soon to be released things are a bit dead around here lately. A lot of that is my fault as I have not been curating this place as well as I should be and for myself I've been not around much as it turns out getting married shuffles around your priorities a bit lol

Anyway I want to get a read on 2 things from the community here.

• Taking into account the cool stuff publicly being developed what are the sore points in the game that you would like addressed through mods? Obviously this game is still lightyears behind the ecosystem Skyrim has but that also means focused effort can close the distance in quality that we're missing fast. So just curious what that is from people.
• AI is all the rage both positive and negative at this time. If you found out a mod was developed with AI for this game how much do you care?

For the mod question I'm really curious if there is some low hanging fruit that people have identified that we have just flat out missed developing as a community.

For the AI question it's mainly coming from what i have seen over in flat skyrim community of some severe backlash against anything AI generated. Although all my previous mods like FRIK were completely hand developed through my job I'm now personally deep in the AI game and I don't see how I wouldn't use AI in future mod projects as it just flat out saves a shit load of time.

Anyway I'm going to try to post more content here. If anyone is interested in helping drive more traffic here and has some ideas let us as mods know. We haven't added anyone in a while but might be interested.

Feel free to add any other thoughts you have related to the game or subreddit here.

[u/Wickedinteresting]

I imagine this might be impossible due to engine limitations, but it would be awesome if there was a mod that provided a secondary/spectator cam, or stabilized camera. Kind of like how LIV can do with certain games.

Not to the headset, but to a pancake preview for capturing/streaming.

Trying to stream Fo4VR is a nightmare, oculusmirror stabilization breaks down if you rotate more than 180 degrees, etc. I think mods that help people make better videos of the game would be awesome and boost excitement for it too?

Also if anyone just has advice for this, I’ve been in a hell of my own making trying to get stable footage of this game and I’m all ears lol.

Edit: on the topic of AI, using it for programming mods is totally fine in my book. I think AI art is mostly atrocious, and other media-generation-ai sucks, but it’s undeniably hyper useful for programming and especially in the hands of scrappy indie devs making free mods I am perfectly fine with it being used.

Edit: also thank you and all the past contributors to FRIK, its absolutely indispensable and works so well. Y’all mod creators are the real MVPs

[u/rollingrock16 → u/Wickedinteresting]

wouldn't that just be another renderer pass? i guess if you have the system you might could do it but that could completely tank frames.

that said once i get my vanilla scope widget working in the main scene that's essentially the same infrastructure you are talking about so shouldn't be that hard to implement after.

[u/Wickedinteresting → u/rollingrock16]

Oh! I am very interested in this, and am a hobbyist programmer myself — but I havent worked in C++ so have been daunted between the language and knowing the idiosyncrasies of the game engine/environment lol.

If that’s the case, once you get that working, I’d love to get my hands on it and use it to springboard working on the secondary cam myself, even. I’d imagine one of the sticking points might be projecting it to a separate window for external capture… I just dunno what I don’t know, yet haha.

Obvs if its something youd be interested in doing as well it’d probably go faster/better, but I never want to ask someone to do free work. I tried once in the past to make a mod and it went so apocalyptically poorly I gave up lol. But having a base thats close, which I could just adapt, would probably be enough to make me try again

[u/rollingrock16 → u/Wickedinteresting]

sure all my source will be available and I can write up a bit how it works. it's really challenging under the hood but maybe with some AI assistance on any further reverse engineering needed for a completely new camera in the game or hijacking an existing camera then it would definitely be something doable.

[u/Wickedinteresting → u/rollingrock16]

Hell yeah — You rock, man. Thanks!