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@Grim Experiments Cue is from Industrial Revolution. If you've seen any of Kinggath's Forever Let's Play, he shows Cue and some of the stuff related to him on camera.

The other guy's a clone of someone rather important. Or at least, he 'thinks' he's someone important. Dom has a rather different opinion on the matter and takes great pleasure in slapping a shock collar on him and showing him the error of his ways.

Portable Cloning Device is an absolute must in my load order. The device allows me to clone just about ANYONE. Think there's maybe a handful of NPCs I've not been able to clone with it. It makes a perfect copy of the NPC, except that they're settlers, have the WorkshopNPC script attached, and so can be assigned to any settlement. Only thing, they lose their voice (it gets set to a default settler voice), so it's only the character physically.

But still, an entire army of Kelloggs, or Hancocks, or... you get the idea.

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/26230


You get the clone, but what about the clothing? Do the spawn cloned with the weapons/armor they had before dead or do you have to outfit them?
 
i love it - not only are you playing a raider boss, but you're playing a mad-scientist raider boss.

clone deathclaws and make a mini jurassic park!

"Just because you could, you didn't stop to think if you should!"

DOMACLES: "Yeah, uh, I kind of stopped caring about the rules when I woke up to a nuclear wasteland. So yep, I very much think we should... still planning on sending every last Minuteman into orbit absent a spacecraft. Maybe they'll... see the light." :evil:
 
One point I must make about SS in general are all the extra occupation named settlers it provides. Perfect fodder for making or tweaking facial presets, and learning what all those sliders do in Looksmenu. Doubly so if you use a mod that adds or extends sliders. Adding hair mods can get you into a whole other dimension,
 
You get the clone, but what about the clothing? Do the spawn cloned with the weapons/armor they had before dead or do you have to outfit them?

They respawn with the clothes they had on, but initially, not the armour. If you leave them be, next time you see them, they'll have the armour they were wearing as well. However, being settlers, you can equip them as you like.
 
@parrotheada1a The houses: are they scratch-built, or are they plots? Either way, damn, that's amazing.

Thanks! I have always used a combination of SS plots along with various other structures off Nexus to build my settlements and player houses. I don't use city plans. I live in Lowell MA. The city is the birthplace of the industrial revolution in America. The whole CBD is built up with brick structures over 4 stories tall. I tried to emulate that in my builds.

I try to keep a clean aesthetic for my builds, and get rid of having a cookie cutter appearance. Here's a shot of how this one started, after I cleared out all the junk, rad barrels and other loose junk. I don't use scrap mods because I don't want to deal with any problems related to them.
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Then the first structures I put in were from Hosza's Office & Stores mod. Most of these structures look to be from Concord in the game. https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/20925
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I've added 2x2 brick sidewalks all around and between the structures. The power poles are from SS, and the streetlights are vanilla tall gas lights. The structure on the right has the town's workshops inside, and a bed for he player upstairs. The one on the left will eventually have some SS interior plots.
 
Back t o Abernathy... I spent an hour or 3 filling the woods outside the house with flora. Much of it came from Creative Gardens, and the pine trees came from the SOE mod. The trees got new textures thanks to the Pine Trees Redone mod. Anyone know where to get low stone walls in the game? ENH20190901122628_1.jpg
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Project Blueprint has low stone walls. Not clean of course - they are the default falling-down ones.
 
I feel kind of bad. :unknw
I haven't done anything cool in-game for awhile.:search

Unless shooting this Yao-Guai in the nose counts. :poohlol

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I'm a goof. It was way too much fun. :crazy
 
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Dom's having an OMGWTFBBQ moment. Industrial Revolution players will know where he is :grin
Gage meanwhile, just chillin' in the back, appearing unfazed by the, uh, unusual environment.
 
Lol. God I need to play Skyrim again next. I love nailing people with bows. I would even intentionally kill the crosshair so I needed to get gud.

My Raiders wouldn't shut up about our new chem kitchen so I decided to throw them a party.
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Boss: Damn, Jammer, getting our own chem cook was a good idea; last night was a blast. Only, I can't find my pa... What the hell are you wearing?
Jammer: What, you don't like it? Me and the crew made these outfits last night. It's our new uniform. I think it fits our work culture quite nicely.
Boss: Whatever, you look like a cosplayer and a furry had a baby. Also, what the hell is that behind you? Super Awesome Fun Time Raiders?
Jammer: Uh... Yeah, about that. You insisted we call ourselves that from now on. Even shot a guy that disagreed. So...
Boss: ............................... Do we have anymore chems?

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This settler had the Boss fearing the second coming of Preston.

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Boss: There! Are you happy now Piper?
Piper: I said people would know we were involved! Not to mutilate their corpses!
Boss: How are they gonna know we were involved if they can't identify the corpses, huh?!
Piper: ......
Boss: Okay, you grab their feet, I'll grab their shoulders, and we'll throw em in the river.

I poopoo this game a lot out of frustration, but there are some real gems to be found.

Also, @parrotheada1a, do you do some sort of design work or study aesthetics at a prestigious university? The amount of care you put into Abernathy is beyond me. My Abernathy is just a bunch of Gunner corpses and some SS plots, lol.
 
Also, @parrotheada1a, do you do some sort of design work or study aesthetics at a prestigious university? The amount of care you put into Abernathy is beyond me. My Abernathy is just a bunch of Gunner corpses and some SS plots, lol.

Thanks much. Aesthetics.... sort of. Up untill about 20 years ago I was heavy into HO scale trains. Besides the trains, there are a whole lot of things that go into making it look realistic. There's the basic scenery, and then there's structures, vehicles and details. Among other things. One thing about model trains is that you are limited on space. A scale mile of track is about 60 actual feet long /18.29m. I don't know of too many people that have a place that big to fit more than half that. A lot of folks will build a layout around the walls and into the space they have, but that depends highly on what kind of railroad you want to model and what kind of equipment you have. If your thing is big steam trains and full length passenger equipment, you cannot run this stuff on tight radius track without the trains hanging up and derailing often. Trust me that gets old very fast.

So to get around it, we use a technique called selective compression.The trains & track and a few other items are scale size.... but everything else is compressible to a certain extent. Unfortunately, if you have a small postage stamp structure and park a 50 scale foot boxcar next to it... it looks phony as hell. Ditto for things like trees, power poles and other things of that nature.I used to spend a fair amount of time and money kitbashing structure kits together to make them fit a certain space.

What I've been doing though for SS buildings is to build structures from scratch and use interior plots and housing to get rid of the cookie cutter effect of 2x2 plots
 
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