Growth ray?

[MajinnFranky]

I've been looking everywhere for a mod that gives you an item that can be used to either make various npc/critters grow/shrink. You know, a growth and shrink rays of sorts. Fallout 3 had a mod that gave you such tools in the professors shack in Grayditch. But while its available for Fallout 3, I haven't seen anything like it for New Vegas. So that's why I'm asking if there is such a mod, hidden from the light of day, or if someone can make the mod. I would be really appreciative if someone took some time to make it, I'm not sure how difficult it is, but I couldn't make a mod to save my own life.

[DrPepper715]

The scripting of the weapon might make your game crash depending on how you want the gun to work. I'm sure it's possible but the thing is that you would need to have two versions of the gun. One version would be the shrink and the other would be the grow. I'm not sure on how to make a script where once any npc is hit they shrink or grow... It would obviously have the setscale command in the script.

 

I'll see what I can do for you. No guarantees that it will work, though. :thumbsup:

[MajinnFranky]

Thank you and good luck with that. But seeing as how there is already a growth/shrink ray in Fallout 3, I don't think it would be that difficult. FO3 and NV are generally the same game, although considering how much buggier NV is.... Anyways I think it can work either way.

[MajinnFranky]

Has any progress been made?

[DrPepper715]

Has any progress been made?

Right now, I have the weapon made but the script (as I expected) is crashing the game once the weapon is fired. I'm trying to fix it when I can right now.

[MajinnFranky]

So I've been thinking of locations of where the growth and shrink rays would be located. What would you think about locating them in either the Repconn rocket facility, vault 34 (the irradiated one), hidden valley, camp searchlight (the irradiated town), Jacobstown clinic, mr. house's hidden bunker with the robots, or even the silver rush store. I think one of those places would be good to locate the weapons.

[Morgwynn]

Why not just hit the " ~ " button and click on a critter until numbers and letters appear at the top of the screen and then type setscale 1 through 10 and then the Enter button and the critters size should be changed once you close the " ~ " button.

[MajinnFranky]

Why not just hit the " ~ " button and click on a critter until numbers and letters appear at the top of the screen and then type setscale 1 through 10 and then the Enter button and the critters size should be changed once you close the " ~ " button.

I'm sure a lot of people wouldn't care about that, but every time you open the console achievements would be disabled for the rest of that playthrough. I find that rather annoying and don't want to open console, type in setscale 1.45, save game then close only to reopen the game. Besides, Fallout 3 has the growth/shrink ray mod, why not just port that over to New Vegas and have an in game way to either grow or shrink people and critters other than resorting to console. The only thing that needs to be done with that mod is perhaps editing the part where npc become hostile after using the rays.