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About this mod
Adds a hacky but decent support for multi-layer decals and head wounds (read desc for incompatibilities).
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Why
One thing I hate about AAA games nowadays is the laziness and total lack of care from developers in delivering proper wounding and damaging responses for characters.
What it does
How it is done
Problems
Tools I used
- This mod requires manual setup for custom bodies. I currently only provide vanilla ones (but I can introduce more).
This mod introduces a problem: first-person hands disappear.(fixed on v2)- Fallout has a bug with skinned decals: they stop working once you load a save. You have to load the save again to fix it.
Why
One thing I hate about AAA games nowadays is the laziness and total lack of care from developers in delivering proper wounding and damaging responses for characters.
What it does
- it adds a multi-layer decal and head decal system
- it means you can loot gear and still see decals (and where your shots land)
How it is done
- It works by hijacking the MaleHands.nif and FemaleHands.nif and injecting a transparent mesh that accumulates decals
- Basically, it creates a thing I call 'decal-mesh'
- This mesh is composed of a copy of whatever body mesh you might have installed + a modified HeadGear1.nif, for fake head decals
- The mesh is then assigned a transparent dummy material
- Then I modified the naked skin and hand armors to always render hands (which ends up rendering the 'decal-mesh' too)
- I followed a similar technique from zalteredbeastz
Problems
- Incompatible with body mods, or anything altering character hands .nif files. However, you could create your own 'decal-mesh'
- Incompatible with anything that modifies: records related to human skin and hands armors/armor-addons, as well as the human race record
- It only works with humans as of now (no super mutant, no children, probably not working on ghouls as well)
- Doesn't work if using mods that implement unique-body for player/NPCs, as it would require per-body tweaking (could be made to work though)
It makes first-person hands disappear(fixed on v2)- Another minor issue is, it makes the hands model always 'equipped', which could introduce clipping issues on certain armors that have tight gloves
Tools I used
- Outfit Studio
- FO4Edit
- Blender
- Material Editor