Help: NPC's and models

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holyrebellion

It Wandered In From the Wastes
I was wondering if it was possible to make the NPC armour change the same as your main characters. e.g. if you put on a leather armour it changes your apprearence. I was just thinking because it would be cool if sulik, vic and cassidy all looked like enclave soldiers (a team of power armour's). Thanks.

holy
 
there's already an armour mod, but it doesn't work exactly right..
what i mean is, if you put vic in leather armour, he turns into a generic guy in leather armour, not "Vic" in leather armour...

read the "patch" thread at the top for more info. it's in there somewhere...
 
oh i was only really thinking power armour so it wouldnt matter if they looked the same caus the look the same anyway 8) cheers ColJack... erm its a 40 page maze in there... any idea which page your referring to? =S

holy
 
erm ok i've managed to download the mod for NPC character amour changing. its about 71 kb, i opened it up and its just a couple of scripts... each specific to an npc. The readme instructs me to remane this "1.05patch.dat" to patch000.dat and copy into my fallout 2 directory. thats all fine and dandy (it works) but i cant use it in conjunction with the official fallout 2 patch i was using previously. If i extract the scripts from the NPC mod and import them into the official fallout patch with dat explorer, the game loads but it doesnt work (the npc models dont change). (it seemed crude but hey...) is there a workaround? to be able to use my old fallout patch with the new mod? help appreciated.

holy
 
maybe use a mod loader like FAME or ModRunner.

for some reason FAME doesnt work for me, just nothing changes, ModRunner has always worked, im interested in my guys looking like the armour they're wearing, so ill try it out
 
Yup use modrunner, Fame when there is a conflict (between patch000 and mod)will always use file from patch and not from the mod.
So many changes will not work, and modrunner is only option. :roll:
 
does this mean if i make new *.frm's for example (pack them into a dat, call it mod.dat, can i just use modrunner to incorporate them into the game, caus that would be great =]

(btw i just tried modrunner just then, it works great, like magic :P )
..now to making frms =S

holy
 
it makes it so that your NPC's appearence changes when you change their armour. Like it does for you, though all their models are generic (e.g. for vic you cant get a fat guy in leather armour unless you want to make some new frms, which is pretty hardcore)

holy
 
i said that at the top of the page..

and who are you and why do you have our link in your signature?
 
lol, that cracks me up :lol:

Now I'm starting to wonder about making some new Fat guy FRMs for Casidy... naa to hard, but I could do Sulik or Casidy I suspose. Just lopp off the head and paste it on the other armours.

It would be do-able as they only need a few of the weapons
 
i reckon we could do it. if i can draw it, colour it would you be able to do the rest? (im not quite sure what 'the rest' would be but im sure you'd know :wiggle: ) :D im not gonna let any obese guy stand in my way! he will be drawn!! :twisted:

holy
 
Heh, that sounds like one hell of a plan, but in theory, couldn't you use that same method to implement some kind of choice on the PC's appearance at the beginning of the game? I mean, say, a bald guy in a vault suit, or long hair, etc.

(I've always wanted to play as an Ian lookalike.. it shows, doesn't it?)
 
nah sorry doesnt work like that buddy.

*edit i have no idea what you mean. bald guy? vault suit? beginning of game? :wtf:
 
So that instead of playing the game as the vault suit guy/girl as your base model you look like someone else.

It can be done... In fact I have done it :) but you have to use a set of FRMs that have all the waepons etc... Vic/Casidy models dont have all these
 
Yeah, that's what I was getting at, thanks for putting it in understandable terms.. sorry for going completely off topic, but is there anyone developing these weapon animations for the different characters? Personally, I think a mod that allows you to have whatever appearance you want with no restrictions in terms of armour, weapons, etc. would be immensely popular. If I'm wrong, correct me, but it's just a thought...
 
Wild_qwerty said:
lol, that cracks me up :lol:

Now I'm starting to wonder about making some new Fat guy FRMs for Casidy... naa to hard, but I could do Sulik or Casidy I suspose. Just lopp off the head and paste it on the other armours.

It would be do-able as they only need a few of the weapons
Click to expand...

I agree, Vic would be a bit too hard but the others are doable.

BTW Qwerty, if you make the FRMs for Sulik and Casidy I may give Vic a shot on my spare time.
 
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