Hello. I wanted to slightly change one of the house themes for the player house in Megaton (the wasteland explorer one). I assumed there would be a seperate cell for every theme and it would be like editing any other cell. But I've looked through the Megaton cells and all I can see is MegatonPlayerHouse. I open it up and the themes are actually static objects. So I have no clue.

Is what I want to do possible, or do I have to delete everything and start from scratch?

Also, when opening the cell I get this error message. Can I ignore it?

3D for Ref 'ShackFillReg01' (007B24F) does not support extended emittance but ref has explicit emittance data.

Many thanks.

Tricky one I know.

That would depend on what you want to do. I wouldn't recommend simply deleting the existing assets and creating your own space. You can run into problems doing it that way. If you want to make some space for yourself, you should just drop things down below the floor where they won't be in your way.


Don't worry about it, that message will pop up all over the place. You can fix the problem if you like but it doesn't cause any issues with the game itself.


BTW, is that a pic of Jayne from Firefly or did it come from something else he did?

Thanks Nicho.

Yes that's Jayne.

Good show, too bad it only lasted for one season.

As for what you're suggesting, deleting default game references can create a conflict which might cause the game to crash, especially if you end up with a mod that makes some sort of change to the object that's been deleted. So don't ever delete anything that exists within a cell or interior. The usual way of getting rid of a reference that you don't want to have in the game is to check the "Initially Disabled" box for the reference in the cell it's in and/or dropping the object below the floor/ground so it can't be seen in the game. In your case, moving them out of your way is all you really need to do, so you can have room to work. Later if you like, you can easily put them back where they came from. Either go into FO3Edit and remove them from the mod there, or click on the "Details" button in the Data menu and find the objects you moved and select them. If you then hit Delete, that tells the editor to "Ignore" the changes you've made to those references and it will load your mod without them. Then just save as soon as it's done loading and all the objects will be back to their default locations, along with any changes you've made.