Stimpack Needles

[SnakeTheFox]

Here's a odd one, stimpack needles.

 

It's odd, you can pump 30 stimpacks into yourself, but your character will never once drop a needle. I'm pretty sure it's possible to make an effect that basically adds an 'empty syringe' junk piece to your character every time you use a stimpack, which would be cool.

 

But what would be cooler would be if, for every time you use a stimpack, your character drops an empty syringe. Same should go for Med-X/Morphine, Psycho, etc.

 

Anyone willing to take this up? Or has it been tried/done?

[TGBlank]

The dropping is not ideal, as it leads to savegame bloat when used by junkies.

[SnakeTheFox]

Well maybe not dropping, but an effect similar to spent cartridges for guns and such, set so that they fade in a few minutes after use. Is that at all possible?

[TGBlank]

don't know if we can produce shell casing at will, but an item can be scripted to vanish. Tho good timing there is required.

A good method would be to simply play a sound of a needle falling to the ground, it's more reliable than trusting a falling item to produce the desired sound.. well, actually, just prolong the stim sound so it plays a falling needle at the end.

[SnakeTheFox]

That sounds better than just default.

 

Is there a mod that exists that reduces the amount of stimpacks you can inject yourself with, per second/minute/hour/day?

 

Really I find it horribly unrealistic that you can simply bring up the Pipboy (pausing the game), and inject 4 stimpacks, and get right back into the fight you were literally fully engaged to.

 

What would be really cool (and I'm probably just dreaming here, I understand Fallout 3 is one of those games that make mods like this difficult) is if there was a mod that replaced all the vanilla stimpacks, with stimpacks that worked differently. Say, they would need to be equipped like a weapon/apparel, and used, so you can't do it via hotkeys/pip boy, and every time you do, you'd need to 'fire' it (mouse 1, w/e you use) and it could play an animation of the PC stabbing himself with a needle. Although I'm sure something like this has been discussed before.

[TGBlank]

There's several mods that change the stim from instant heal to regen. Multiple regens don't stack, ergo, you cant eat 50 stims in a single pause and be full of health. That system works rather nicely.

 

As for the animation, hmm.. i know there's one for self-injecting stim somewhere, locate it and i'll make the mod.

[SnakeTheFox]

Hmm, no amount of browsing nexus' animations folder/using the search feature on the site, or even my moderate google-fu has yielded any results.

 

If anyone reading this knows where a stimpack injecting animation is located, or if there is one, please don't hesitate to tell us.

[TGBlank]

I believe it's in vanilla X3

Just don't know the file name to be able to call it. Too lazy to search for it.

[Skotte]

I don't know the name of the animation but I have seen it once in-game Looks painful