The person behind the perks

About CDante

Daniel — better known across the Fallout community as CDante — is a self-taught mod author and professional software engineer from Budapest, Hungary. An '80s kid who's been gaming since early childhood, he was hooked on Bethesda worlds by Fallout 3 back in 2008.

He had never modded a game in his life before Fallout 4. After roughly 300 hours in the first 30 days, curiosity got the better of him — he taught himself the Creation Kit, F4SE and Papyrus scripting, and started shipping the convenience and quality-of-life tools the community now takes for granted. His day job (a master's in electrical engineering, plus years in online media and bank informatics) turned out to be the exact toolkit modding demanded.

His work spans game-changing utilities like Transfer Settlements, immersive systems like The Wasteland Codex, and a healthy streak of tongue-in-cheek jokes. The common thread: clever, sometimes gloriously hacky engine workarounds — and a love of turning a player's creations into something everyone can share.

Humour was always a big part of my personality… these ideas usually just come up while following the latest buzz, and then I quickly implement them as mods within a few hours before they would get anything more serious or overly complicated.CDante
The story so far

A modding timeline

2008
Joins Nexus Mods
Fallout 3 pulls him into Bethesda's worlds and the modding community.
2015
Fallout 4 — and the first mods
~300 hours in 30 days. He teaches himself the Creation Kit, F4SE and Papyrus, and starts publishing.
2016
"Best Fallout 4 mod ever"
PC Gamer crowns Get Out Of My Face. He also previews the H.A.I.R. real-time hair growth tech demo.
2017
Transfer Settlements & the invisible cats
His magnum opus launches; Kotaku writes up the Old World Radio "invisible cats" hack. The Wasteland Codex arrives with The Storyteller's voice.
2018
Among the first to mod Fallout 76
Nexus runs the "Commandant of Creations" spotlight on his 10-year anniversary.
Today
Still building
Transfer Settlements stayed maintained through Fallout 4's Next-Gen update — and this site is the new home base.
open_source.dir

Code & tools on GitHub

A landing spot for open-source utilities, asset repositories and tooling around the mods. More repos to come.

github.com/dczeiner
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