Modular Housing Mod Discussion

[Huntn]

I just discovered this (http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/15108/) and it looks cool, loads up nicely, I've watched a few videos and I'm not clear on building walls. I watched one video where the person laid what looked like a row of vanilla shack floors/ceilings around a foundation he built using this mod. I can't get mine to snap to the foundations. I was thinking maybe he was using the shack floors to get some snapping action on the walls.... apparently no.

Then I'm looking at how to build walls and fill them in with insulation before covering them with a material. The ventricle pillars turn green, but don't appear to snap anywhere on the foundation, how do you keep the spacing even?

In one video a person placed vertical pillars along the edges and even laid out interior walls directly on concrete foundations. No snapping?

In a video by the mod author, he laid out a grid of horizontal pillars I assume so the vertical pillars would snap, but I did not see him use the small horizontal pieces to keep the spacing even.

I must be missing something and would appreciated some insight from anyone with experience using this mod. Thanks! :)

[SuperSledgeNY]

While I'm not familiar with that mod, I consider myself pretty experienced with settlement and player home building. Everything I build is strictly from the workshop, though I use an assortment of mods to dress things up, so to speak. I avoid mods that change what the vanilla game allows you to scrap and also mods that edit the settlement cells in any way.

I'm always mixing textures (concrete, warehouse, shack, etc) and once you know which will snap to what, you can use that as a "key" to build your entire structure in perfect alignment. For example, I built a player house out of concrete but I didn't want the flat concrete roof. So I used the warehouse pieces and gave the house peaked glass roofs. Warehouse roof pieces will not snap with concrete but warehouse walls will snap to concrete floors. I used the wall piece to perfectly align a roof piece, moved it down using the mod Place Everywhere, and then built my entire roof off the "key".

As you do more, you'll start to see what I mean - just take notice of what snaps together and definitely get Place Everywhere. It's a must if you're gonna build up settlements. It's on Nexus, of course.

[Huntn]

Originally posted by Have Gun Will Travel:

While I'm not familiar with that mod, I consider myself pretty experienced with settlement and player home building. Everything I build is strictly from the workshop, though I use an assortment of mods to dress things up, so to speak. I avoid mods that change what the vanilla game allows you to scrap and also mods that edit the settlement cells in any way.

I'm always mixing textures (concrete, warehouse, shack, etc) and once you know which will snap to what, you can use that as a "key" to build your entire structure in perfect alignment. For example, I built a player house out of concrete but I didn't want the flat concrete roof. So I used the warehouse pieces and gave the house peaked glass roofs. Warehouse roof pieces will not snap with concrete but warehouse walls will snap to concrete floors. I used the wall piece to perfectly align a roof piece, moved it down using the mod Place Everywhere, and then built my entire roof off the "key".

As you do more, you'll start to see what I mean - just take notice of what snaps together and definitely get Place Everywhere. It's a must if you're gonna build up settlements. It's on Nexus, of course.

I also have built a lot but the purpose of this post was hopefully to save some time an avoid having to do a bunch of experimentation on my own. :) Btw I only started playing this with after finishing the main quest, just for fun.

[Huntn]

Well I figured it out. It's helped to find an updated video. ;) A flat surface or a series of foundations blocks must be laid out (just like the vanilla concrete foundation blocks) and on top of these a horizontal grid of 2x4 style pieces also found in the foundation section of the mod. To these a grid of vertical posts are used to build the walls, but if you want a second floor you have to place special foundation posts so the same grid of horizontal horizontal pieces can be assembled for the second floor. See this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaDLfjQCIAc

You'll find that building a house using this mod gives you a lot of customizing choices, but involves a lot of work. No problem, I'd like to see what I can make. :D

[B...]

Originally posted by Huntn:

Well I figured it out. It's helped to find an updated video. ;) A flat surface or a series of foundations blocks must be laid out (just like the vanilla concrete foundation blocks) and on top of these a horizontal grid of 2x4 style pieces also found in the foundation section of the mod. To these a grid of vertical posts are used to build the walls, but if you want a second floor you have to place special foundation posts so the same grid of horizontal horizontal pieces can be assembled for the second floor. See this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaDLfjQCIAc

That's not very modular; looks like a full blown constrcution project. I think I am getting a much better result utilizing the vanilla (with some tweeking from some mods) concrete building sections from the workshop for my homes and businesses. Happy building.