Real Time Menus - NVSE

Credits

Yes, I'm starting with credits. Without these people this mod would not be released:

SunsetColours - Playtesting

ok lumberjack - Playtesting

N2Jay - Playtesting

DavidCattoZX - Playtesting

Hitman47101 - Playtesting

C0nzo - Playtesting

Stentorious - Playtesting

DarianStepehns - Playtesting, Script patching

Karut - Playtesting, complaining, being the best nemesis a man could dream of

What?

I don't remember how exactly, but while I was bored at work, I had an idea to make a mod that passes time while player is crafting or cooking items in the game.

So, once I came home, ate rosół, and decided to make something. After 3 hours of wrangling with the rendering, I managed to make menu backgrounds render continually. Plug some animation update and tadaa! Grass sways. Particles move. Models animate.

Okay, that was easy. Too easy in fact. This left me wondering with the usual question - how far can I go? Can I... can I actually make game pass time? Can the world actually be simulated?

2 hours later, I have done it. World lives during menus. Easy Pete boldly demonstrates how he's shooting me while I look for items in Pip-Boy. Amazing.

So, is it done? what now? Dialogue? VATS?

Fast forward... HOLY SHIT IT'S BEEN 3 MONTHS???????????????????????? and we are here.

That was a cool story, but you didn't actually explain anything

Indeed! Fine, me from few seconds ago - I'll do it.

The Real What?

You, dear Fallout: New Vegas player, are probably familiar with our menu system. You open a menu, game pauses. You close it, game resumes. Pretty common in games.

This mod, well, makes the game not do that.

The world no longer waits while the mighty Courier looks for the 10th Psycho in the inventory. Raiders no longer stand still, waiting for you to make up your mind as to which limb of theirs is going to blow up. Entering shops 5 minutes before closing and browsing storekeeper's wares for 2 hours now has consequences.

And most importantly:

You can see hours pass by while talking to a single FNV character.

Here's what exactly you can do:

[](Un)Pause specific menu types. Want to play with paused Pip-Boy, but unpaused containers? Sure. Paused dialogue? Got it.

You can toggle states for:

- Dialogue,

- Lockpick Menu,

- Computers Menu,

- Service Menus (container, barter, crafting, repair)

- Companion Wheel

[]Disable menu backgrounds. Don't want to have the view blurred while in P