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[Khugan]

Now that there is built in rain and snow occlusion, I was wondering about the viability of homes, shacks, and cabins in a given vanilla world space that are not, themselves, cells. I know some exist already, but when the rain passes straight through, it's pretty immersion breaking.

 

What do you guys think the performance impact would be with such a mod or mods? 

Examples:

 

1. All homes in the game are open

2. Only player homes

3. Plus Hearthfire homes

4. Only new added smallish cabins and shacks

 

I was thinking it would be pretty cool to have open homes with fireplaces that can be lit, and will burn out. Candles and lanterns that can be lit/blown out. Windows to look out of as well as cracks in the wall that actual light from the inside shows through, if indeed fires are lit within. I don't know if Chesko could do something with Campfire in terms of the fireplaces being light-able and requiring wood, but that was a thought as well. My own modding experience and abilities ended with Oblivion, so Im mainly bring this up as a potential idea for someone with the expertise and willingness to carry it out. I'm posting about it here because you guys are a group of solid experts when it comes to TES and the limits of this new 64 bit engine. So what are the road blocks to such an idea?

 

Thanks,

Khugan

[lmstearn]

Doable, but a fair bit of terrain editing...

A major roadblock would be other mods editing anything inside the cabins/shacks. Large scripts shunting lots of records around for the purposes of compatibility.

If the cabin/shack has windows, then we lose the exterior view.

 

Unless one does a mod which provides a 2 way view onto the exterior cell (or interior if exterior) which would be a great improvement on the crappy window views in current interiors. Bit of geometry knowhow required there.

Edit: But then an Open Cities approach might be more easily implemented.