How to install

1. Configure Fallout

• copy fallout_config\Fallout4Custom.ini to Documents\My Games\Fallout4
• Fallout must run in windowed mode

2. Mod

• Copy papyrus\creative_guy.esp to Fallout 4\Data\
• Add Fallout 4\Papyrus Compiler to your PATH variable
• compile the papyrus script in papyrus\creativity.psc with PapyrusCompiler.exe "creativity.psc" -i="D:\Games\Fallout 4\Data\Scripts\Source\Base" -o="D:\Games\Fallout 4\Data\Scripts" -f="D:\Games\Fallout 4\Data\Scripts\Source\Base\Institute_Papyrus_Flags.flg" -q
• When you run fallout, go to mods in the main menu and enable creative_guy.esp. Mr Creative will now wait for you in Diamond City

3. Python

• The python code has been tested with Windows 10 bash
• Make sure that python 2.7 is installed with pip
• run sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Font

• Download Monofonto (https://www.dafont.com/monofonto.font) and place it in communicator folder. Please not the license restrictions.

How to configure

1. Move the overlay app to the correct position

• if you run in full hd, you can mostly skip this part
• press home key to make the window moveable
• use arrow keys to move the window
• press page up to save the window position for dialog
• press page down to save the window position for options
• press home again to stop moving the window

2. Game pad

• Run gamepad_buttons.exe to map your gamepad to the Xbox360 gamepad layout

3. Code

• Change hard coded paths in papyrus\compile.sh
• Modify dialog_generator\dummy_dialog.py with your generator code

4. Overlay application

• The overlay application has been coded with Clickteam Fusion 2.5. The source code is in the .mfa file.

How to use

• run sh start_flask.sh

Cite

Mika Hämäläinen and Khalid Alnajjar. 2019. Creative contextual dialog adaptation in an open world RPG. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 73, 1–7. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3337722.3341865

Khalid Alnajjar and Mika Hämäläinen. 2019. A creative dialog generator for fallout 4. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 48, 1–4. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3337722.3341824

Zenodo https://zenodo.org/record/3232864

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