I'm using FOOK with Weapon Mod Kits, and it makes the game far more interesting. The different ammo types are always a concern, so I have to plan ahead when taking companions to ration out their ammo and make sure I have compatible types if anyone runs low. That’s a fantastic strategic view the game does have, forcing you to conserve ammo and carefully distribute it. Magazines are the next step. I've been combing through the tutorials and some of the mods on this site, and I'm starting to get my education in GECK. I'll try and figure something out. I’m a professional actor, I have no idea how to script, unless it’s memorizing one. Nevertheless, I did model and script a few units for Total Annihilation, when fallout 1 was but a new box on my shelf. Ah, HPIs... Here are a few ideas for Magazine Implementation in Fallout: One way this could work, is by creating Magazines that act like containers. Opening the container would allow you to add or remove ammo up to capacity based on the weapon. From what I've read, a limited container in fallout 3 hasn't been scripted. Nor have portable containers been implemented or tested. Both are two new jobs for any scripter. If you pick up the magazine, the game stores the contents in memory. Once added to the player inventory, the "clip" is replaced by the model and animation of the current equipped weapon, where as the container becomes the gun model. The script then references the ammo data stored in memory for that container, and allows the weapon to fire until empty. When dropped, the model returns to the original clip/container and is placed in player inventory as the next is withdrawn. Pressing "R" returns the current container to the player inventory, and starts the reload animation as the next magazine is pulled out (not the equip animation.) Equipped containers show as weapon models, referencing the player/NPC weapon in use as to the data associated with that model. ---- Option 2 is to basically force weapons to reference only the containers in the inventory for sources of ammo. Upon hitting “R,” the script would load the next clip in order. If the order list is arranged based on remaining rounds, you always load the clip nearest to full. It would possibly be a far easier script in the end. No need to replace weapon models on containers, or equip them for that matter. Unfortunately, it’s not such a drastic change from what we have now, where killing NPCs leaves behind an empty gun and loose ammo on the corpse. ---- Here is the breakdown of necessary scripts for Option 1, “the complicated option:” Part I - Limited containers a. Limiting contents b. Limiting amounts Part II - Portable containers a. Getting the game to remember container data b. (No idea.) Part III – Equipping containers a. Equip a container b. Replace it upon hitting “R,” or upon contents reaching 0. c. Referencing current weapon, and replacing it with a container having that model, sound, and animation. Part IV - The Prestige a. When the Magazine is selected in the inventory window, a seperate container transfer window opens, so there is no need to drop the magazine, crouch to activate, and then reload the magazine. FOSE? Looks like Four jobs in one to my untrained eye. Luckily, all the sounds, animations, models and scripting tools are pre-existent? That’s quite a bit of work off our shoulders. There is inspiration in a mod here: http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=5953 It allows you to drop your back pack, and there it acts like a container. Once you pick it up, however, all contents go straight into your inventory, and the container is deleted. Not what we want, but TGBlank may have experience with problems in our Part II? Another idea source: http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2444 Ammo sorting for Megaton House. There may be a few lines hidden in this script that can be learned from in regards to tagging certain containers for specific ammo. Maybe for spawning magazines out in the game world? At least if nothing else, a career SAG actor has made me a great networking guy. If I cant find my way through a problem, I can talk people together into a team.
