I have some spare time for the next month, if nothing will happen regarding meshes/textures conversion by that time, then I assume the answer is "no" for T3TW.
Fallout 4 is already 6 months old and that's already a lot, the interest will be steadily declining in any big modding projects. The time for T3TW is right now while it is possible to attract contributors, or never.
I don't know if that's true, necessarily. Not even all of the DLCs have been released for this game, and a Tale of Two Wastelands was started, worked on and finished* in a span of time much farther beyond 6 months after NV's release.
*As much as it's finished, at least.
Switching to the new engine will also provide much better support for new graphic cards and more importantly, finally free from that bug that forbid FNV/FO3 to have 225 mods like skyrim does........
And not to mention the new engine may makes playing FNV/FO3 with VR headsets a possibility.
So yeah, I do see T3W is the way to go if we still want to play FNV/Fo3 in the next decade.
1. 255 mods, not 225
2. This is not a bug
3. Fallout 4 has this limit too
I'd throw my support behind this project. Unfortunately I have no idea what is required to write a MAX script and do not have the ability to do any of it by hand.
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Instructions from the official forum
Step 1) Create Mesh
Step 2) Create Collision Shape -> name does not matter at all ever not even a little....!
Step 3) link Collision to Mesh.
Step 4) Assign your Meshes Material BSBlinn or BSLightingFX or BSEffectFX dependant on use of that mesh.
Step 5) Select Collision and hit Create Single Rigid Body -> Proxies are generally only used for Skeletal Collision but they are not really any different overall except that a Proxy collision will be linked under the same NiNode as the Mesh where as the other generally gets placed under its own NiNode, In terms of an animated Mesh that alone creates a parent NiNode for the animation to be linked to and the Collision will be a child of that so its irrelvent as to which you use.
Step 6) go to the modifier panel and select Shape -> Shape Type then RigidBody -> And set its Quality Type otherwise it will export as Invalid which is useless overall.
Step 7) Goto Utilities -> Collision Group and set the default Materials and Object Type then Apply To Selected.
Step 8) Export.
Step 9) Process exported nif with Elric tool (included with CK). Nif mush have "meshes" folder in it's path for Elric to work properly, though Beth said they'll fix that eventually.
And a video guide on creating custom collisions in 3dsmax using official tools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oPvOx2KH4s
The real bitch in all of this, if we do it, is going to be manually recreating all of Fallout 3 and NV's characters in the new engine (unless someone can write a converter for that somehow) and then manually slicing down Fallout 3 and NV's dialog to fit the new scene system.
If it were somehow possible to backport the power armor mechanics and shooting from Fallout 4 into NV, which I doubt it is, I'd be an extremely happy camper as those are the only gameplay improvements made by Fallout 4. Everything else aside from the graphics is a step back.
Good news is skills and traits look like they could feasibly be added back in with some work.
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