nVamp - Fallout Advanced Mod Project

Update: We are now a 'REL' thread. The current version of the mod can be downloaded on the New Vegas Nexus:

http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=40130

For for detailed installation instructions check: http://www.risegaming.com/nvamp

The description and main information [WIP thread] can be found in the spoiler below:

Congrats on the release. :celebration:

I agree congrats well deserved.


Have you thought of contacting Cevsteel of NVInteriors Project he is very good at opening up new places.

Is this modular, or is this all of these mods integrated into one big mod?

Its modular.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! :foodndrink: :hugs:

This is a marvellous pressie for people like me who enjoy playing the game with mods, but don't want to spend ages each time to figure out how to have them play nice together, and in my opinion a MAJOR step forwards for the Fallout community as a whole too.

I promise to vote/endorse for the mod as soon as able, and I will also vote for each and every mod that contributed to nVamp.

Please be well all, the new... nvamped Wastelands await me :flamethrower: :fallout:

are all those esps required? say i didnt want to put in XFO's karma rebalance? i know i could make the edit in FNVEdit to make it work, but id rather not also, others might have the same concerns

Have not thought of contacting Cevsteel yet. Been rough getting nVamp released. Now we can focus on bug fixes, and adding functionality with a stable base. We will begin sending out permission requests for a handful of new mods to be built into nVamp. One particular is a compilation of a series of 4-5 mods to essentially recreate Mart's Mutant Mod in it's entirety. And we have a few others in the works, so we'll keep everyone posted on the main website.

nVamp is modular in the sense that you still require downloads from all the core mods for nVamp to function. There are a series of mods that are merged into nVamp, but the larger overhauls are separate. However, for nVamp to function, it requires all the core mods downloaded and running. We are going to be building certain sections, such as the graphics and HUD, into optional plugins in the next patch. This will make only gameplay functionality essential to nVamp and allow more choices for graphics and HUD.

As for XFO, you can honestly mix and match what you want with how nVamp is working currently. I'd heavily recommend keeping the current setup as it works best with the vision of nVamp, particular the enemy AI sections, but the rest can be dropped at will (especially the UnMSG and balancers). We are looking at the next release opening up a lot more options when running nVamp so it relies less on a whole bunch of core files (will have just the master files running in most situations) and more on optional adjuster files that can be loaded after the nVamp core to change how the game runs. This will focus initially on: spawn rates, AI, hardcoe functionality, and loot.

thanks for the quick reply! my question wasnt so much with xfo specifically as it was about any particular esp users might not like included. i also like the idea on your forums to have 1 menu for all included mods instead of the multiple menu items that usually come with them. still DLng. with my crappy connection, its likely going to take me more than an hour total

Hello. I just installed a fresh New Vegas, then 4Aces RegRes textures, and then all those mods in order from your site and then nVamp and then used Wrye Bash to loadorder/Bashed Patch. But I have a big problem. Whenever I, or an enemy, shoots a weapon, there is a big exclamation-mark instead of a muzzle-flash. What could I have installed wrong, that would make it do that? (It seems that 9mm guns are working fine, but it is just the rifle you get from Sunny Smiles that is not working properly)
I also got exclamation marks for whisky-bottles - strangely enough not anything else - near where you hunt Gecko's with Sunny Smiles.

EDIT: Oh boy oh boy lol I did NOT see there was a big 250MB Data Files you need to get also.... stupid me, I will try that. :cryvaultboy:

EDIT AGAIN: I can not seem to get the "Unified HUD" working together with DarnUI. When I install Darn first and your data files afterwards, the HUD is VERY big. If I install Darn last, it gives me the error "Unified HUD was not loaded correctly" or something, but the HUD is now small (except there is no humidity- or time-indicator on the HUD etc). So how do i get them working together? Thanks

After further playing, it seems that it is all alcohol-bottles that have exclamation-marks (when using the console and clicking them I can see it is alcohol). Wine, beer, whisky etc.

Interesting. Seem like a very comprehensive mod compilation that'll surely make large changes to the game. I wonder if i could throw Project Nevada at it without blowing things up?

from the installation part of nVamp's site:

Install Project Nevada

Download Project Nevada
Install all data and these files into data folder:
Project Nevada – Core.esm
Project Nevada – Cyberware.esp

EDIT: will the fact that some (?) ELECTRO-CITY esps were made into esms change anything?

Ah, good. It wasn't mentioned in this thread so i was worried if it'll have some compatibility issues. I'll try this after i finish my current playtrough.

As far as I know, you will have conflicts between PPA and PN (one of those has been on our issue tracker for a while, but I think there should be even more problems).
Edit: The thing about the FOV I wrote here earlier wasn't really accurate now that I've taken a look at the script, so nevermind...

Maybe i'll give it some more time then. Especially if you get the Rebalance module in testing condition soon

We are going to be working on resolving the issues of PN with the nVamp version of PPA. When we get a fix, we will send it out for both PN and PPA to update as needed.

@Elitetrop: There are problems with the HUD. Does not support DarnUI. We are building a separate optional plugin for both the HUD and graphics so these can be optional, and they will be specialized based on the type of UI you wish to use. As for the Sunny bug, and some of the weapons, they are being looked into. We will have a hotfix shortly that will resolve a bug with CaliberX and the new ESM system used by Electro-City.

-Vaernus

New version 0.13 is up. Expecting another patch within the next few hours that resolves some issues and potentially will be adding a new overhaul to the system. The only hint I'll leave about the overhaul is the original inspiration for this overhaul rhymes with Bart's Butant Bod. We'll leave it at that. Let's just say the overhaul is working flawlessly and probably will be out with the patch today.

-V

Version 0.14 has been launched. Fixed a series of bugs, and added Vaernus's Voracious Vermin. This mod has added a solid spawning system based off of Increased Wasteland Spawns along with over 400 new creatures and creature variations into the wasteland. VVV has been launched also as a standalone mod, and we are setting up a post now with details on the current version as well as future plans.

Hotfix 2 has been launched. Resolves a series of bugs that have been affecting weapons and possible crashes. Full changelog can be found on the website.

Was wondering what exactly the issues between PPA and PN are. I could help with a patch, but PPA's also due for a new release, and I'm planning on building in some compatibility features, like the ability to disable the vision overhaul via menu.

The issue is between the dynamic crosshair of Project Nevada and the FOV changes in PPA. When I was talking to schlangster about it, we isolated the problem to the FOV script in PPA. Generally the changes there are occurring the same time as the dynamic crosshair of PN, which then causes the crosshair to constantly expand off the screen and take a long amount of time to come back. To resolve, at least on the nVamp level, will involve basically overriding the changes in the PPA script to point to the scripts in PN. However it does not affect the binocular changes. Been trying to find time myself to focus on trying to find a compromise to the problem, but my time's been filled resolving crash bugs within nVamp to which we're almost there.

-V

One issue too is that I don't know which mod adds the range-finder and the problem with that is that its bugged and keeps changing distances if I am standing still. It goes, "74, 100, 45, 64, 75..." endlessly.

Schlangster contacted me about it, and that's the gist of what he said. I'm going to start by making the entire FOV script disable-able via menu, since that's also one of my most frequent requests - there are other vision overhauls out there that people like to use. That should allow people using PPA to start taking advantage of the dynamic crosshair and Project Nevada weapon zoom right away. If it's not too messy I might also make individual features disable-able, so you could keep only the automatic binocular equipping and "no scopeless zooming", for example. That would make creating a more sophisticated patch a lot easier - I'd just have to change the default values of some global variables. I've got a fix for the dynamic crosshair issue - the PN script relies on the weapon FOV for sizing the crosshair, so when the PPA script sets a weapon's FOV to 3, which is a code for "do not zoom at all", the PN script misreads it as an FOV of 3 degrees. What I can do to fix it is read the player's default FOV via getnumericinisetting, and use that FOV rather than 3.

I'll be making these changes to the standalone version of PPA, but it should just be edits to scripts and should therefore be easy to transfer over to nVamp.

For future non-script additions though (I plan on adding some other features, like new UI voice acting options, while I'm at it) I know there's been some talk of a system of reassigning form IDs in mods integrated into the nVamp core - has that been implemented yet? If I'm understanding correctly, the problem is that if you combine two mods that both add items assigned the same form ID by either merging them or making one the master of another, the game will see it as an override. It looks like merging utilities (FNVPlugin anyway) will detect this and reassign form IDs automatically, but that means it's a little tougher to spot changes to the orginal esm/esp in FNVEdit, and you can't just drag the changes over by temporarily adding the original as a master to the merged version. Powered Power Armor has quite a few forms, is there a utility for making the switch a bit less onerous?

Ooh yes please; these would all be welcome changes. I'm still very much in my '*blaaharaaggh*must-mod-everything*blaargh*' phase to get everything just right before I start my second playthrough of the game, but I have been holding off on installing PN because of these compatibility issues with PPA.

In case it's helpful, I've also been noticing an issue where if I perform a VATS attack, the FOV will be extremely zoomed in once VATS is exited. I think it's due to PPA - I don't believe I have any other mods currently installed that touch the FOV. I do have a custom FOV defined in the ini file though; in case that's relevant.