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I've been taking a break from coding, or so I thought, and trying my hand at modding Fallout 4, which for those of you that don't know, is a total nerd's game.
Wow it's challenging. Endless seas of records of data entry, and an arcane scripting language. No github, but you can reverse engineer mods others have wrote and decompile the scripts.
That's how you learn your way around the game engine.
If Nexusmods got taken down tomorrow I don't know how many people could write mods for fallout 4 after that.
The whole mess is a house of cards.
I mean it's "documented" in that there's something like doxygen docs for the Creation Kit (the fallout 4 modding toolchain), but there's documentation and then there's documentation. The "Apply Bash Spell" for example, you'd think would apply a "spell" to a target when you bash them with your gun. No such luck. It's a carry over from Skyrim, where you can do a shield bash. The bash mechanics in Fallout 4 are slightly different, you have to look for IsPowerAttacking while using Apply Combat Hit Spell, and filtering to make sure the Attacking weapon is a firearm. This is documented exactly nowhere. Not to mention there's at least one other way to do it that I know of, and I'm not sure which hack is worse.
It has been an adventure, to say the least.
Real programmers use butterflies
modified 14-Sep-21 5:47am.
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honey the codewitch wrote: The whole mess is a house of cards.
I suspect that's the state of most games.
Personally, I'd be happy just to be able to extract my GTA Online character stats--not even write anything back, purely reading data. There used to be a GitHub page that went over how to log into Rockstar's Social Club, but last time I looked, the thing was a few years old and even that no longer seems to work.
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honey the codewitch wrote: It has been an adventure
A BIG GREEN SNAKE BARS THE WAY!
Software Zen: delete this;
modified 14-Sep-21 15:14pm.
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Plugh!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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your computer skill just reached 92%, congratulation! 
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My mind obviously occupies a different space from yours. When I saw
honey the codewitch wrote: "Apply Bash Spell"
I thought, wow, they have extended this:
peter@Pegasus:~/stuff$ greo '(cat)|(dog)' captions/*
Command 'greo' not found, did you mean:
command 'grex' from snap grex (v1.2.0)
command 'grep' from deb grep (3.4-1)
command 'geo' from deb rheolef (7.1-1)
See 'snap info <snapname>' for additional versions.
peter@Pegasus:~/stuff$
I don't know whether  or  is more appropriate. But it was before any caffeine for the day. Repairing that deficiency right now!
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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You sire, certainly are an arch wizard!  
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It is. The documentation is not existing. I wanted to create a very simple script to drop magazines when reloading in combat (just dropping the remaining ammo at player location and removing them from inventory) but the architecture of the game is so convoluted and the documentation so terrible, I stopped after 6 hours.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Being an avid Fallout 4 modder myself, I concur
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I received the printer[^] on Saturday.
It took me a while to build, because I put it together wrong once or twice.
Here's what it looks like[^].
Power Supply Wrong Voltage
Also, once I got it built, I plugged it in and it didn't do anything. Nothing. I examined the power supply and noticed it was set for 230V (European standard) instead of US. I slid the switch to the correct location and all was well.
First Print
I printed an item from Thingaverse -- a chip clip[^].
Here's what mine looked like:
1. Top side view[^].
2. Bottom side view[^].
Yes, there is a problem. That is not supposed to be connected like that on the bottom.
Oh, Elephant!
I learned a new term : Elephant foot.
That's what this problem is called.
Learned that after posting this as a 3D Printing StackExchange question[^].
Now, I will try to solve that. Any suggestions?
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Raise nozzle...z-axis.
You're printing too low.
I used to get it a lot with PETG
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Thanks for the info. I will try it. I did the deal with "paper-leveling" and didn't think I was too close, but then I got this elephant foot deal. I will raise and try again. 
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Sandpaper or an electric belt sander.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I prefer belt sander. 
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Thanks I got them, but I went for the 120 grit because I'm in a hurry.
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Don't hurry too much - grinding stuff down generates heat which can melt your material and make the situation worse. Slow and easy is the way to go!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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raddevus wrote: I learned a new term : Elephant foot.
You might just like an alternate meaning of the term (assuming of course you're not acquainted with it)
Comes from a basement. Of a certain former nuclear reactor's site.
Elephant's Foot (Chernobyl) - Wikipedia
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To anyone who see this I have a 3D Printer issue, I have paper leveled correctly but the print dissapears and does not bond on the left side of the print bead despite test prints coming out correct any ideas?
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I am Retiring, effective Sept 17th.
There are other things going on but that's enough for now.
| Ravings en masse^ |
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: I am Retiring, effective Sept 17th.
Me too.
Just not this year. 
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Congratulations. I'm not sure I can retire - I'd likely die of boredom.
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Congrats,
Time to put that '90% of the fish are in 10% of the lake' theory to the test! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Hopefully no one finds those 10% and the fish can live in peace
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Congrats, but keep doing something.
Retirement is just the beginning!
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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