Construction Set Extender
Showing the CS the love it deserves
version 4.0

Requires http://obse.silverlock.org/


Download : http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=36370

Next Thread: http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1158265-rel-construction-set-extender/


Description

A wise old person once started a thread in the BGS forums with these words:



*tumbleweeds fly* *the wind makes an obscene sign in the sand* *the snow…oh* *the smoke clears, albeit slowly*

“Well, I’ve been told that I’m handsome…”




Fine Print

The Construction Set Extender is a lone and handsome vagabond OBSE plugin that enhances the TES4 CS by fixing various bugs and adding new tools. One may say it makes the CS what it was meant to be, but that would be a lie [snip]*.

* - Modified for political correctness.

By popular request, here's the abridged version of the manual:


Update: Please refrain from using any preprocessor directives in scripts - The preprocessor component is being rewritten and serialization format may change with the next build. This message may be ignored if you don't mind manually copying the preprocessed text b'ween this build and the next. Apologies for the inconvenience.



Compatibility

This mod is, and should be, compatible with every other mod there is.



Credits

Special thanks to :

• Ian Patterson, Stephen Abel and Paul Connelly (The OBSE Team) – For keeping up the Oblivion Modding spirit and providing the modding community with TES4 Oblivion's Elixir of Immortality
  
• LHammonds – For his Readme generator
  
• Scruggsywuggsy the ferret - For putting up with me over the course of CSE's development, providing advice, adding stuff to OBSE as I needed and letting me do all sorts of immoral stuff to the code. Kudos to you, mate!
  
• IanPat – Same as above.
  
• Cipscis - For inspiring the very first version of the plugin that came to become CSE.
  
• haama, Waruddar, Corepc, kyoma, DragoonWraith, PacificMorrowind, tejon, JRoush and Vacuity - For taking interest in and testing the plugin and working with me through the many arduous months of development. Hats off to you guys!
  
• Sen-Chan, CorePC, lilith, daemondarque and the rest of the ... group - For being such a friendly bunch and keeping me company.
  
• Lilith – For proof-reading the manual.
  
• All the modders who contributed to the 'CS Wishlist' and 'Script Editor Wishlist' thread - CSE's chock-full of your suggestions and requests.

The Rest of the Modding Community – For the inspiration I needed to start modding and all the wonderful mods which I use.
Bethesda – For providing a great game Construction Set with enough flaws to keep us me busy.


Change Log

Beat my magnificent octopus, Skyrim!

Yay!

EDIT: With my post secured as first, I can now spam emotes at will: :tops: :clap: :hugs: :woot: :happy: :drool: :bowdown: :goodjob: :celebrate: Darn, there appears to be a limit.

2011 sure is shaping up to be a great year.

And we are GO :cake:

Hahaha, ShadeMe, Beth should be paying you for buying their games, because you bring so much out of them that I'm sure Beth is left staring in awe.

That's just simply rude and arrogant.

And completely true, when you compare what they've created after years of work getting paid with what some modders have created in a year or two or less with nothing but their wills and free time. Sure, Oblivion is a great game, but if you took out all of Beth's content, I'm sure you could make just as good a game if not better from mod content (minus things like voice acting, but that's one of the few things that has been done better professionally). I doubt more than a tiny percentage of us would still be here playing the game if it weren't for mods.

Beth has a lot of talented professionals, but it's almost as if they lack the sort of creative vision that many of the best modders possess. (Did Beth think of CSE? No. I rest my case. ) I understand that's just part of what happens when you go from 'we do this for fun' to 'we do this so we can eat', but that doesn't mean shadeMe's statement was wrong.

Heh, you should read my other threads

PS: Please don't take what I post to heart - I jest. Most of the time.

Awww....I wanted to have the first post!

Aaaah, that reminds me of something I wanted to ask, ShadeMe, on your flyspeck creations page, what's up with the last entry, the one entitled 'ShadeMe' with no description?

hehe :shifty:

Why do you vex me so :sadvaultboy:

wrinklyninja:
My point is that it's always easier to iterate someone else's work than develop a whole system from the ground. Therefore discrediting the team that gave us the tools to improve their game (or should I say, make it cater to specific tastes) is like biting a hand that feeds you. Plain silly.

I'm not dissing the mod community; in fact I've been lurking in the shadows since Morrowind was released and it too would not be playing TES games if it was not for mods. But I'm not getting this sense of entitlement and superiority among some (not all) modders. Many people don't seem to realize the amount of work and skills that goes into professional games development, of course that's the case with many modding communities not only this one.

shadeMe:
Perhaps my comment was a little bit uncalled for; I too voice harsh criticism online without realizing how rude does it sound. But ever since Skyrim was announced, the level of, often irrational, criticism aimed at Beth had went through the roof. I do feel that this is partially fuelled by modders; even if you're not serious, there's a lot of kids around here who may take your words for granted.

Maybe I should just stop reading Skyrim general for the next few weeks. :brokencomputer:

:trophy:

This mod is incredibly awesome. So awesome, in fact, that it's not really a mod at all - this is something that every Oblivion modder should have by default. It's in the same category as Wryebash, TES4Edit, and OBSE itself.

So far this is just a thread of people who know each other having a good laugh together, posting smilies and arguing about who's the best - modders or Beth.



The Description lacks ANY description with regards what CSE is/does.

Care to put out a bit of detail as to exactly what this does to extend the CS?

I was relying on the timing and hype to pique folks enough to download the package and read its 8-pages long manual

Nevertheless, here's an http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1104351-discussion-cs-wish-list/ the vaguely alludes to some of the stuff CSE includes.

Finally! :celebration:

Continuing to jerk ShadeMe's chain...:)

Oh, and btw, I got my husband that game for Christmas - it is truly bent. That it's your avatar is perfect He got me the 3d tactile vest, but it's stuck in the mail, so I haven't actually received it yet...

It makes modders [this description is not appropriate for family viewing]

Bah. Fine. Interest piqued. *goes to download*

I'm kind of here with respect to the opening post, but this sounds like a great addition the Oblivion modding tool set.


Thanks!
- Tomlong75210

I watched a presentation from Todd, after fallout, where they addressed some of the concerns developing the games. One aspect was stopping improvement because they had to - perhaps it had to do with the certification methods and portability to other platforms. Something in those lines, since I am by no means an "expert".
They presented the (extreme, rather bad) example of diablo iii - still patching and testing and the game still hasnt come out - but I got the impression beth are improving future games on an ongoing basis (hope so for skyrim at least).

Anyway, I thank you for this.

Well, I've looked through the manual and it looks too good not to use. It seems to fix all the things I needed to be fixed...

Are there any issues with it though that you know of? I don't want to risk messing up my mod and losing potentially large amounts of work...

Always keep back ups, because vanilla CS will randomly* add and modify records. But, no, I've been using it for Cobl and it's worked wonderfully... at least for the leveled list, few world changes, and script changes that I've done... oh, and the ability to load up the master file without needing to switch back and forth :celebrate:

The only issue at this point - if you have Windows XP, don't use "Load Script"... or at least use it with care - after loading the script, bring up the load dialogue again, navigate to your Oblivion directory (the one with the exe), load up one of the texts there, and Ctrl-Z to go back to the real script. It seems that when you navigate away from the Oblivion directory while looking for your scripts, it changes a variable in CSE so it starts treating the script directory as your Oblivion directory. Of course, your script directory doesn't have a /Data/ folder full of mods, so CSE gets confused and can't save (yep, I'm sticking with those terms). This only happens with Windows XP, not Windows 7, and I don't know if Vista has been tried but I'd guess it doesn't happen.

*As with all Bethesda bugs, random means only under certain conditions... however those conditions are either unknown, incredibly complex so we're not quite sure, well known but so odd that they sneak up on you, or, because the CS was written by followers of the Old Ones, all three at once.

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16288 crashes TESCS.

I cannot figure out how to get this to work. I put everything in the right file paths, have OBSE 20, and yet when I load up the CS it's the exact same as it was.