The creation kit (not just fallout 4 but Bethesda games going back to at least Morrowind) have a clunky system for making new buildings... one wall and floor and roof piece at a time, or otherwise using pre-constructed shapes and pieces.
I've always wondered why.
The Sims is a great example of how easy house building can be. You just click on a spot, and drag as the outline of a house or a hallway or a room appears. Let go, and poof, there it is. In seconds you can build a completely unique mansion floorplan that would take endless clicking and dragging of individual pieces in a creation kit. And you can't just click and paint in the creation kit. If it's a stone wall piece, it stays a stone wall piece, but in the sims it's a click and bang the wall or floor is wood or brick or whatever, just like that.
I have to wonder, why didn't Bethesda simply imitate this? This style of Creation kit has been around at least since Morrowind. They've had plenty of time to figure it out. And since the developers use the creation kit to make the game (I think), it seems like it would be very much in their favor to make house-building a seconds-long affair rather than dragging and clicking together individual pieces.
I've always wondered why.
The Sims is a great example of how easy house building can be. You just click on a spot, and drag as the outline of a house or a hallway or a room appears. Let go, and poof, there it is. In seconds you can build a completely unique mansion floorplan that would take endless clicking and dragging of individual pieces in a creation kit. And you can't just click and paint in the creation kit. If it's a stone wall piece, it stays a stone wall piece, but in the sims it's a click and bang the wall or floor is wood or brick or whatever, just like that.
I have to wonder, why didn't Bethesda simply imitate this? This style of Creation kit has been around at least since Morrowind. They've had plenty of time to figure it out. And since the developers use the creation kit to make the game (I think), it seems like it would be very much in their favor to make house-building a seconds-long affair rather than dragging and clicking together individual pieces.