SSE Journal

This mod may not work on Skyrim versions after 2019!

Requirements

These are visible on the "Requirements" tab in the main mod page and their respective mod pages, but they are still overlooked. Hence, required are:

• []SSE Hooks

  []SSE GUI

  []SSE ImGui (v1. 1)

  Motivation

  This was something which I wanted to do since... hmm... Anyway, I really liked the Take Notes - Journal of the Dragonborn SSE and used it a lot. Of course, I dreamed about images, hyperlinks, inserting locations, embedding video and stuff. Well, most of it is still not possible, but due to the nature of the "wheels" upon which this mod is rolled, motion is in the direction which I imagined.

  The recent upload of the ImGui framework, was a good opportunity to make a project. Investigating few pros & cons, adding improvements, having a mod which is to be like a proof of concept and be usable for non-modders too was welcome. I spent enough time upon this mod and considering the short human life, at some point had to draw the line and upload it here.

  Summary

  By pressing the "Insert" key, you will toggle the overlays and as part of them the Journal book seen on the screenshots. The game will stop processing your keyboard and mouse, and this will give you the opportunity to click, type and etc. By pressing the "Insert" key, the Journal will hide again and the game will continue using your input controllers. Something which I have yet to fix is deciding how to hide/show the Journal while in "Overlays" mode ^^'

  The Journal consists of two pages, each one with separate titles and text content. Content can be any practical number of lines and columns. As the handwritten font in Skyrim is used, you have limited set of English (if you know rich Unicode hand-written font - let me know). Some features:

  • []Save to JSON (the Journal format) and text files

    []Load from JSON and Take Notes (xml) files

    []Have a Chapters overview for inserting / deleting chapters (aka pages)

    []Basic text edit navigation: selection, word moving and etc.

    []You can copy/paste to/from the Windows clipboard

    []Font size and colors adjustable

    []Book size adjustable

    []Small set of variables i.e. inserting on-demand calculated text as game time or location (experimental)

    []Embedded images ^^

    Custom fonts

    With version 1. 1 more versatile settings for fonts are supported. The built-in handwritten font allows only the Latin set, hence more Unicode friendly font can be used instead. Custom fonts also allows for more theme variation (see the small screenshot attached). Fonts are automatically picked up, if they are placed under the "Data\SKSE\Plugins\sse-journal"[