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Newbie new newb wants to make an Addon

Rudy

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I read the summons for Plot Builders and I flung myself into the tutorials... and bounced off. Now I'm rubbing my aching head and knuckling down to get some work done.

I'd like the Addon Pack to be Minuteman themed and have a few newbie questions and requests for guidance.

Minimum to release an Addon Pack? I have a lot of things in mind, but I also don't have the heap tons of time I'd like to get it done as quickly as I'd like. Is it OK to release an Addon Pack with say, 3 or 4 plots? I'm working on a Minutemen multi-resident metal barracks right now. I have the level 3 SCOL done but haven't started past that. I was thinking of releasing with:
  • Exterior Res: Metal Barracks with 1 settler at lvl 1, 3 settlers at level 2, and 5 at level 3 (I love how it looks, just gotta put in the lights and scripts and stuff).
  • Exterior Rec: Hallowed Ground cemetery that grows in fancy as it levels up. Provides happiness in the form of determination and pride. I want to spawn an Orphan at level 2 that hangs around the cemetery.
  • Interior Industrial: Tato Masher Rations that makes, you guessed it, InstaMash for the trooper on the go!
Is this acceptable for an Addon Pack or way too low?

Reusing existing Addon Plots is a thing? No? There are some good Minutemen Artillery Martial plots that if not in the main SS mods I'd like to include in my Addon. This way if a newbie just wants a Minutemen style Sim Settlement, they would have access to these Artillery plots.
Related question: If someone else lets me put their plot in my Addon, would it be like crossing the streams in Ghostbusters? (hint: that was a bad thing... until it was a good thing actually. Bad analogy).

Multiple contributors? Is it possible to have people make a plot and have it incorporated into someone else's mod? Sorta like the previous question, but this would be a new plot. For example, someone makes a Minutemen Interior Residential plot and that gets rolled into my MM Addon (or I offer up my plots to someone else who's faster than I).

Thanks for entertaining a newb. I'm slow, but I'm working on getting the first building done. Still.
 
4 is the min as long as you let people know more plots will come:)
As long as you have permission from someone it will be ok to use there stuff:)
Most authors tend to work solo ;) but theres no reason a bunch cudnt make a addon .

its fun building stuff lol
ask for an invite to the builders discord .plenty of us hang out there
 
Thanks!
I need to get a headset with a mic. Then I will take you up on your offer for joining the Discord server.
 
no worries

hehe hardly anyone use voice chat there so no mic needed :)
 
So I got a metal barracks built in the Creation Kit, made a SCOL, then decided I wanted to change a few things. My layers disappeared when I un-grouped the SCOL back into bits.
I have a sad.
And I still haven't gotten to the point where I start scripts and such to add lights and a door and such.
My sad is big.
 
if there is nothing in a layer it will get deleted.
Check your default layer your scol may be in there.
but you should still have your scol in the object window ,just remake your levels and re add ur scol
 
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