User:DavidJCobb

Mod author for Skyrim and, to a lesser extent, Oblivion, specializing in Papyrus scripting, reverse-engineering by way of disassembly (given a suitable foothold e.g. offsets in script extender source code), and OBSE/SKSE DLL authorship.

• My NexusMods userpage
• My Creation Kit Wiki userpage

As of this revision, my edits typically center on engine-level functionality for Skyrim and Oblivion (especially in talk pages) and on documenting quest content for ESO.

Categorized contribs

Reverse-engineering and investigation:

• Oblivion alchemy
• Oblivion commerce
• Oblivion lockpicking
• Oblivion UI system
• Skyrim combat, stagger calculations
• Skyrim, intimidation code
• Skyrim, GMST loading
• Skyrim: how does the game know which armor skill to advance when you are hit?
• Skyrim: documented the unused, but valid, NOTE form type

ESO walkthroughs written or rewritten

• A Faded Flower
• A Final Release
• A Ghost from the Past
• A Last Reminder
• A Lesson in Silence
• A Life of Privilege
• A Pirate Parley
• A Poisoned Heart
• A Son's Promise
• A Special Request
• A Stranger Uninvited
• Bound to the Bog
• Broken Apart
• Brothers and Bandits
• Buried in the Past
• Captive Souls
• Captured Time
• Catch the Lightning
• Clarity
• Cold-Blooded Revenge
• Decree of the Court
• Deep Disturbance
• Dreams From the Hist
• Filling the Void
• Foreign Vintage
• Getting to the Truth
• Into the Mire
• Into the Temple
• King of Dust
• Kinsman's Revenge
• Last One Standing
• Life of the Party
• Lost Daughter
• Lost Pilgrimage
• Lost to the Mire
• Missing in the Mire
• Missing Son
• Of Dubious Value
• Outside Interference
• Overrun
• Protecting the Hall
• Pull the Last Fang
• Questions of Faith
• Saving the Relics
• Scales of Retribution
• Schism
• Shadowfen Smorgasbord
• Shock to the System
• Strange Guard Beasts
• Strength of the Father
• The Thin Ones
• The Tree-Minder's Fate
• The Trial of Five-Clawed Guile
• Three Tender Souls
• Trials of the Burnished Scales
• Unbridled Wealth
• Unwelcome Guests
• Vigil's End
• Vision Quest
• Warm Welcome
• What Happened at Murkwater
• Whispers of the Wisps
• Will of the Broken

Drafts

• Oblivion file handling - free for anyone to take and work on; should go in the Tes4Mod namespace.
• Tree-minders - free for anyone to take and work on

Notable off-site works

CobbDialogueLogger (ESOUI; Github)

An Elder Scrolls Online add-on which logs all subtitles and menu-based dialogue to a LibAddonMenu-2 panel, formatting content in UESP-suitable wiki-markup.

Oblivion file-handling research

A comprehensive examination of how Oblivion handles files, including overrides between loose files and BSAs. This includes a full translation of all program code related to ArchiveInvalidation and a full examination of what BSA redirection is, what it isn't, and what it fixes.