Nos' Vault 1 Remodel, V1, Upcoming

So, I've been taunting you all with screenshots the last odd month. My personal vault 1.

Something on the scale of Refurbished, but with true NosCo-brand style.

Despite my profession early this morning, I did not, in fact, go to sleep. My stupid body's pendulum has swung the other way, and in the span of 24 hours I went from normal sleeping patterns to total insomniac. Typing this on less than four hours sleep (0800 - 1200).

Since I couldn't sleep anyway, I spent the wee hours of the morning working.

My remodel is nearly done, consequently. The floors are completely tiled. I've added marble pillars to most rooms, placed the new lighting fixtures, and have scripted in all but the last two or three light switches.

You can see here, the completed Clinic:






Where I did some remodeling on the lab:




(no more NPCs clipping through into the tank here!)


I also did something minorly cool: I added an aquarium to the Overseer's office.





I'm gonna stick some mini-lurks in it for liveliness.


And... I did something severely fucking cool.

I almost didn't mention it. I considered making it a surprise... but I'm just too proud of how it turned out.

Did you ever hate the 'closed-in' feeling of the vault? The endless gray? The low ceilings?

We here at NosCo share your pain, friends. I know one of my great joys in life has always been looking at the stars, and I eternally lament that living in the safety of a vault negates the ability to do this. As such, we have tasked our best engineers to find a solution. This morning, after some weeks of hit-and-miss experimentation, they struck gold.

I give you, the new Vault 1 atrium, with perpetual night star-field sky-dome:









Truly, as when dealing with the real sky, small screenshots simply can not do it justice.

I've had the idea for months. It was to be one of the features of my Tower. With my abandonment of that mod in favor of continued support of V1, I had to try to transplant the idea... but never managed to get it to work until this morning.

It took some doing, let me tell you. But, I feel it will set my little remodel apart from those other vault mods, and how.

Upload shouldn't be too far away. Once the switches are scripted, I still want to toy around with a couple modders' resources I've lucked into, and see if/how they fit in.