» Sat May 28, 2011 10:08 pm Welcome to the work in progress thread for my latest Mod! Thanks for dropping by.
If I had to describe this mod, I would have to put it in terms of other video games.
The Interactive environment I'd say its inspired mostly by, Harvest Moon and Monster Hunter. I've taken what I can so far from these games in terms of inspiration which has manifested itself in this mod as Fishing, Mining, Farming, logging and Animal tending.
The look of the game and the feel of the fighting, is inspired by Movies like Dawn of the dead and the Evil Dead trilogy. And video games like Left for dead and Silent Hill.
Its a completely new contained worldspace, meaning that you wont need anything from the Wasteland to get by here, but you will be able to take items between the 2 after the quests are fished.
As I said its a horror mod.. So let me set the scene a little.
You never knew your Mother, so you never knew her Family. She had a Brother, a Scientist, who left the Vault a long time before you were born. He joined up with the Enclave as a way to survive and help humanity, as he saw it.
They posted him to an abandoned Valley called Chiarria with his wife and daughter to investigate the phenomenon happening there.
Something about the valley was absorbing the surrounding fallout radiation and causing the formation of powerfully radioactive crystals.
Inside his small research facility there, the crystals were used in many many experiments to determine what power they held. Eventually leading to human experimentation in the field of Psyonics. That's as much as I'm saying about the story line. But its all planned out already and is progressing.
As you progress through the quest, you'll receive the items necessary to interact with the environment and create your own equipment. For instance, Mining for ore and melting it in the furnace creates iron for you. Mining for Sulfur and Potassium Nitrate and Coal allows you to use the mortar and pestle to grind them into gunpowder. You take the Iron and the gunpowder to the Ammo press and make bullets. This is your only source for ammo here in Chiarria. The bullets can also be tipped with various crystal found throughout mining to deal extra damage to the foes you encounter.
Fishing and farming, will be your only source of health here. With basic seeds and equipment being available at first to help you survive, and then later as progress through the quest, a fully fledged money making farm and house.
PROGRESS:
I've been working on this for 3 months and so far have produced over 300 new meshes and textures myself. The world space is almost finished, and I will be moving on to the dungeons soon. The farming, mining and fishing is all there, I just have to expand it a little.
Logging: Completed, But I'm making new models for trees, so that every tree in Chiarria will be loggable. Allowing you to collect wood in order to build additional structures and fortify your home against attack.
Farming: Its basically finished. So far I have Corn, strawberries, Apple trees and Orange trees. I'm going to expand with a greenhouse with Tomatoes and some potatoes also.
You till the land with the Hoe, plant the seed. The plants need water to grow provided by the sprinkler system. The produce drops when the plant matures allowing you to collect it, and either turn it into more seeds with the Robco seed maker 3000, eat it for health or sell it. When its grown, the corn is cut with the scythe and the stalks are taken to the Robco Baler 3000 to be turned into Hay bales to feed your livestock. I only have chickens so far, they lay eggs daily for you to eat or sell. There is a small change that you will get a fertilized egg, which must be incubated to hatch into another chicken. And there is an even smaller chance that you will get a golden egg,with greater sale value and healing. Thanks to Arkoola and the Beth community for help with the farming script.
Fishing: Its done as far as this Mod goes. 8 fish types. No trophies or anything in this one. Survival is your reward.
Mining: Finished, I just need to add more mining points around the world, and the various ores and chemicals that can be found there. So far there are about 10 materials that can be mined.
Weapons: So far there are 6 new weapons, Mostly farming related. An Axe, a Cleaver, a Chainsaw (needs to be reworked, i thought it was good until I saw the one just posted on the Nexus yesterday lol), a Hoe, a Pickaxe and a Rifle. The rifle is interesting. It will be one of only 3 guns available to you here. The other 2 will be a pistol and a shotgun. Each has several ammo types. You can fit a torch to any of them, but there is only 1 torch so pick your fave weapon (Supplied by Pelinors amazing Directional Pip light mod) It's very dark here at night and whilst dungeon crawling, you will need a torch! The Rifle can also be fitted with a Scope made from a relic found in the mines here. Which will allow you to see previously hidden objects and locations through image space modification. Each melee weapon is also capable of damaging destructible static objects (or which there are many). A new feature to Fallout.
Enemies: So far I have made 3 custom enemies with more planned. One is a giant nightmarish Teddy bear that stalks you, the other is a Feral Ghoul variant which provides the En mass bad guy. The final is a mysterious little girl. Thanks to Weijeisen for a shader effects tutorial on this these.
Armor: A few new clothing items, nothing special, Armour isn't prevalent here in Charria. Its more about environmental defense than personal. Also, who's afraid of anything when your wearing power armor?
I could go on describing everything in words, but your probably ready to see some images by now.
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/8703/bloodyharvestpromo1.jpg
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http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/3618/bloodyharvest11.jpg
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And lastly a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM8RACbAQLQ: Sorry about the crappy editing.
Ok, well like I said, I've been working on this for about 3 months. There if still a lot to do. I'm working on this by myself, so I cant give a definitive release date. Maybe January? Who knows. I'm not asking for help through this WIP, I don't really need it at this point. I just wanted to delay a WIP thread until I thought had anything worth showing.
Please feel free to add your thoughts, comments and suggestions and questions.
Take care all
Skykappa
hopefully i'll have it by the time you are ready for beta. 
