averagemodder

8 anni fadiscuss

Good question. But realistically, a mod like that would also need an installer software able to pull and convert also: textures, meshes, game plugin data, scripts (and perhaps some other misc stuff I overlooked), or creatively recreate some of these from scratch, or have permission from Bethesda (against the company policy, I am afraid).

averagemodder

8 anni fadiscuss

In practice, Bethesda does not permit mods with assets from a different Bethesda game. Everything else is negotiable, there are kid toys trains turned into Skyrim dragons, but mods with assets from another Bethesda game (or even from a DLC of the same game, but without making the mod dependent on that DLC) are taken down.

So, modding projects which plan to accomplish that with some installers extracting those assets tend to operate a bit under the radar, legal gray area or not.

averagemodder

8 anni fadiscuss

I don't know if Skyoblivion ever managed to write a robust solution for translating the codebase from the old scripting language to Papyrus, and I can see why it might be a huge hurdle for modding teams.

averagemodder

8 anni fadiscuss

It happens a lot in the modding scene, that the project team is strong in landscaping, but not so much in everything else that needs to be ported.

Often they don't have software guys to code the custom tool for that, and they end up doing a lot of it manually.

In case of porting F3 to F4, you have to deal with a different scripting language.

So blaming it all on copyright of voice acting is a convenient excuse to sunset the project.

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