Q: Weapon Rack that had visible weaps? Armor racks?

[mctaff]

I seem to recall someone a while back mentioning they were making a weapon rack for use in player housing. Is there such a creation? If so, does it show the contents by having them visible in racks? (Munkeenuts had one but is it actually functional?)

 

Next question: Is there anyone out there that could make such a creation to hold your Unique weapons? I am a big hoarder type, and I'm sure other pack-rats like me would love to have something cool to show off - even if it's just to Dogmeat.

 

I have a few parameters that I'd like to outline for anyone that's willing to have a go (I'm not a modder, and both my PC's are unreliable for Fallout 3 anyway (long story). So, no need to read further unless you're interested in actively participating in a development discussion, willing to actually take ownership and develop it, or can point me in the direction of someone who has created something along these lines. :thumbsup:

 

• The basic idea would be to start with the weapon cabinet that has a cabinet on one side, and the open shelving on the other.
  
• There should be a "wall" section instead of this open shelving.
  
• For each of the unique weapons in the game, a corresponding set of rests/hooks should be on the wall.
  
• Whenever you place a unique weapon in the cabinet, it should automatically place that weapon onto the correct hook for you.
  
• It should also automatically "set ownership" of the weapons placed in it, or make them otherwise unavailable to companions that want to pick them up for any reason.
  
• You should hopefully be able to retrieve the weapon in two ways: by either taking it from the hook, or opening the cabinet and taking it from there.
  

 

That's the basic idea. Everything from the Mesmetron to Victory Rifle, Stabhappy to Vengeance should have a place. Of course, that would mean that it would be huge to accommodate the large number of weapons, but this is the price of having fun.

 

Of course, it'd be handy to have additional smaller cabinets that outwardly display what is in them, - a few smaller cabinets done by type (i.e. small guns, big guns, etc) to hold all of the non uniques. Handier if I can remove same if they also rack up like he wall mount, but in a compact fashion (as you find them in the National Guard Armoury - all staked nicely in the racks). If I have a handful of .32 pistols, it'll show one there, and I can keep 'taking' that pistol which adds them one by one to my inventory until I have them all, etc.

 

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There is also the matter of sets of Mannequins to display your various sets of unique armor too. This is probably more suited to mods that fully incorporate new (and spacious) player housing, but I'd like somewhere to hang my Tribal Power Armor and T-51b / Winterised T-51b, Chinese Stealth Suit and so on. Either have mannequins dressed in it, or stasis fields to hold it would be cool.

 

Could also add a repair bot that repairs it if you feed it scrap metal, fission batteries and tools...