MorbinMonroe

Mmmmmm... .50 caliber explosive rounds with The Cloud's effect. Sweet!

The idea is a japanese themed craftable leather armor for lower level characters. Something accesible for everyone, but functional. I think that these pics from Akira Kurosawas "7 samurai" film get the idea. Chestpiece, boots, bracelets and a headband with a metal protector. It could be also considered some normal outfits with traditional japanese shirts and the pants (hakamas) PD: Pants would be apreciated.

About Desert Rangers beeing hunted down… Well the idea came from two sides. The first one is a quote of the veteran rangers in Camp Golf. I’m from Spain, so I play the game in Spanish. The quote is “Vamos a tener una pequeña reunion de rangers, vamos a zanjar unas viejas disputas” the translation (I’m unable to find the quote in the internet) would be “We are having a little ranger meeting, we are going to settle some old disputes”. As well as chief Hanlon's disagrees with the NCR's politics. The other way the idea came is the unofficial “quest” from the mod ADAM to take the Outcast armor, where the outcast is a rogue ranger being followed by the NCR. I just think it could give the mod a dramatic touch and show other of the NCRs big mistake, as the Bitter Springs disaster. They get so obsesed defending their Republic they even try to eliminate the old lawbringers and protectors of the wastelanders The idea of the need of another kind of ranger armor came to me last week when I remembered a pair of old mods, “new ranger armors” from tumbajamba (http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35312) which seemed to me to be kinda unfinished (some part of the textures stay in black, need of more female models...), even it was a great idea. The other one was the NVBS (New Vegas Battle Suit), one of the my favorite mods. But as his author was stupid or careless enough to use elements from other registered video-games without advice (that’s against the rules on nexus), so the mod was deleted by the administrators. I decided to post my idea because I think it could be profitable, without breaking the lore in the game. It could be made just combining the with the plate of the Desert Ranger Combat Armor aka (http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110528233616/fallout/images/e/eb/DR_combat_armor.png) and combining it with the already existent meshes and textures of the several outfits in the game. Not just the armor, it can also lead to create a "believable new faction" as you said, with their own quest and even a companion. I like the idea of using them in the battle at the Hoover Dam. As the Enclave has his swan chant, the same should deserve the rangers.

The Desert Rangers were an important faction in Mojave and Nevada until 2271. After the Great War, Texas rangers who survived the apocalypse started to wander the wasteland acting as law enforcers, hunting the most dangerous predators and protecting towns and settlements from bandits, raiders and tribes as the White Legs and The 80s. When the legion approached to the Colorado, the efforts of the Desert Rangers, and small elite group, where not enough to maintain a large scale war against them, so they joined the NCR in "Ranger Unification Treaty" in 2271, becoming the pride and elite unit of the republic. Most of the Desert Rangers became the “Veteran” rangers, wearing their famous “Black armor”, but a few, went rogue and started to operate on their own, beeing hunted and chased by his former brothers & sisters now working for the NCR. What I’ve in mind is a set of armors that resembles the personality of the mostly extinct Desert Rangers, descendants of both Texas Rangers and The US army rangers that fought in the Gobi desert campaign. A small elite group of men and women, experts in desert warfare, who are able to cover long distances with few rangers. They remind me some special groups as the British Long Range Desert Group (also called the Desert Scorpions) that made his performance in North Africa in WWII http://warart.archives.govt.nz/files/images/NCWA_00018.preview.jpeg http://lrdg.hegewisch.net/LRDG_images/N_RW_C72.jpg The disguise of the desert rangers is their traditional armor. A metal chest plate of a riot armor with the customized helmet (radio, gas mask and night vision). To add some variety I purpose different combinations. Keeping the armor chest plate (ADAM’s Helmets mesh and textures are good, it’s no necessary to make a new ones) and a pair of jeans as basis, they could be added over the chest different jackets, coats, ponchos, and vests, not just the duster, which gives usually many clipping problems. Despite of the extras a desert survivalist should have (bags for rations, hand radios, canteens, binoculars…) to resemble the different ability of each ranger, some extras could be added, depending the skill is main, for example a first aid box for the doctor, extra MF cells for the energy weapons specialist, a bandolier with big caliber bullets for the sniper, tools for the engineer… About the colours for the armor it could be used this classic camo example, good enough for desert (it's the one used for the US marine's raincoats in WWII) About the faction logo for the armor, the "Lone Star" of the actual Texas rangers could be used, white and black. Thank you for your time and attention.

I’ve tried to learn to use the texture and mesh editors, but I’m lacking the skill needed. It would be a definitive medium armor for a vanilla body male/female courier to wear along all the game, that matches the 50’s and far west postapocalyptic style of the game and doesn’t have the CLIPPING ISSUES of the duster from the COMBAT RANGER ARMOR. The idea I’ve doesn’t even need to create new meshes it’s rather a collage. The fact is a jacket and jeans outfit, for vanilla bodies using the Cass’s outfit jacket in the upper side (with the chest plate of the desert ranger combat armor under the jacket). For the jeans and the belt, they could be used the pants of the civil ranger outfits. To complete it would be a good idea the “Mojave Express” logo in the back of the jacket and maybe a canteen or some belt equipment so it resembles the wandering messenger personality of the main character. Thank you for your attention and apologies for my horrible english.

I know, but I just don't like the type 3 body.

I wish that any skiller one could make a NCR Combat Ranger Armor for female characters (vanilla body, not Type 3), Changing the duster for a jacket (the Cass's outfit jacket could be usefull) and keeping the riot armor plate under it. May be the major trouble o'uld be to recolor the back of the jeans (covered in the vanilla version by the duster), but the final product could be a good variant for the Combat ranger armor, which has'nt even a female variant and it has many clipping issues.

Looking for mods I discovered the "Courier Merc Armor", by "Neverclock", but it's a pity it's made por the type 3 body, I don't like. It seems to use Cass Outfit, Merc cruiser outfit, tribal garb (point lookout DLC), leather armor and the standart underwear parts. It's there any skilled one disposed to make a version of this mod for the standart "vanilla" body? Here is the original mod. http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=38838