Vinfamy
Sorry but Modding could really do with some TLC. Stat management etc is fine but scenes are just dead.
I can put work into backgrounds, I can make npc's and try to set a scene up to tell a story.
But at the end of the day I just get npc's randomly walking around the scene I made doing nonsensical stuff.
Without the ability to pose and hopefully animate things, the graphics are mostly pointless.
If anything they detract from what I am trying to do.
If you take my landlord mod as an example, you show a potential tenant around an apartment. You go in the main room the tenant starts having a meal, you show them the bathroom they spay on deodorant, the bedroom they go to sleep.
It's just random actions that actual break the story I am trying and tell.
I dont want to sound negative, but it's just so infuriating close to being something extremly good, but currently we dont have the tools to do the job properly.
Let me show the story I am telling, Let me control the actions, you have the reasources, poses and animations, let's use them!
Simple markers in rooms, that we can place when building a room, could be used to set actor's to specific locations.
An lpscene command to run an animation on a specific npc, would mean I could show an actual story, instead of having to type it and make believe.