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One application comes to mind for this: watch for new screenshots (assuming they automatically get put into a directory for Fallout 4 screenshots) and add the i

by rcfox 11y ago

One application comes to mind for this: watch for new screenshots (assuming they automatically get put into a directory for Fallout 4 screenshots) and add the in-world coordinates to the EXIF data.

lambdaops 11y ago
OMG. Definitely didn't think of that.
a_bonobo 11y ago
Other ideas: - a fitbit (pipbit?) for Fallout, track how many km/miles ran/walked, how many km while carrying how much kg of equipment, theoretical calories lost - since it seems to synchronize stats and inventory, you can map where the player killed most enemies/took most stimpaks so you can get a heatmap of enemy-rich zones and rank them by difficulty - divide killed enemies by health lost (or used stimpaks) - there are sites like fallout4map.com which track the location of unique and hardcoded items, you can automate this now
- GeneralTspoon 11y ago
  This could be interesting. I created fallout4map.com, and if it could automagically track a player's pipboy locations, that would be awesome. I tried decoding the binary data for the pipboy app, but didn't have much success. Perhaps someone smarter than me will be able to crack it.
  - tokenizerrr 11y ago
    I will take a quick look at decompiling the android app this afternoon
    - GeneralTspoon 11y ago
      It's a Unity app, so `apktool` works well to get out all the assets. Nothing is obfuscated. There's also sample pipboy data file there too (for the demo mode).
      - tokenizerrr 11y ago
        Sounds like you've looked into this already, any chance you published your findings to spare the rest of us the hassle? :)
        GeneralTspoon 11y ago
        Normally I keep notes on decompiling game files, but this time I didn't unfortunately :/ But I didn't get too far anyway - the DemoMode.bin file contains the demo data. There's a list of locations in a custom binary format, but the titles are readable. I tried modifying the values to make them all visible, but the app threw a parsing exception when trying to load my modified file. Hope that helps!
  - philplckthun 11y ago
    Have you got some kind of API? I'd be happy to look into connecting your map to the game. I think it would be nice to to need an app for this, but if this runs on a responsive website, that can connect to the game independently.
- alexwebb2 11y ago
  Combined with the inventory access, you could check the player's inventory against the known unique items, and place a custom map marker on the exact location for the next one they don't currently have - a treasure hunter app.

by rcfox 11y ago

One application comes to mind for this: watch for new screenshots (assuming they automatically get put into a directory for Fallout 4 screenshots) and add the in-world coordinates to the EXIF data.

lambdaops 11y ago

OMG. Definitely didn't think of that.

a_bonobo 11y ago

Other ideas: - a fitbit (pipbit?) for Fallout, track how many km/miles ran/walked, how many km while carrying how much kg of equipment, theoretical calories lost - since it seems to synchronize stats and inventory, you can map where the player killed most enemies/took most stimpaks so you can get a heatmap of enemy-rich zones and rank them by difficulty - divide killed enemies by health lost (or used stimpaks) - there are sites like fallout4map.com which track the location of unique and hardcoded items, you can automate this now

GeneralTspoon 11y ago
This could be interesting. I created fallout4map.com, and if it could automagically track a player's pipboy locations, that would be awesome. I tried decoding the binary data for the pipboy app, but didn't have much success. Perhaps someone smarter than me will be able to crack it.
- tokenizerrr 11y ago
  I will take a quick look at decompiling the android app this afternoon
  - GeneralTspoon 11y ago
    It's a Unity app, so `apktool` works well to get out all the assets. Nothing is obfuscated. There's also sample pipboy data file there too (for the demo mode).
    - tokenizerrr 11y ago
      Sounds like you've looked into this already, any chance you published your findings to spare the rest of us the hassle? :)
      - GeneralTspoon 11y ago
        Normally I keep notes on decompiling game files, but this time I didn't unfortunately :/ But I didn't get too far anyway - the DemoMode.bin file contains the demo data. There's a list of locations in a custom binary format, but the titles are readable. I tried modifying the values to make them all visible, but the app threw a parsing exception when trying to load my modified file. Hope that helps!
- philplckthun 11y ago
  Have you got some kind of API? I'd be happy to look into connecting your map to the game. I think it would be nice to to need an app for this, but if this runs on a responsive website, that can connect to the game independently.
alexwebb2 11y ago
Combined with the inventory access, you could check the player's inventory against the known unique items, and place a custom map marker on the exact location for the next one they don't currently have - a treasure hunter app.