Add 'Consume' or 'Use' Option to Loot Menu?

[ArbPotatoes]

Hey all, first poster here. I've been lurking and trying out different mods for a while, and I must say that this is an absolutely excellent community. Fallout 3 has one of the strongest modding communities I've seen.

 

Anywho, I'm tired of hunting something down in the wastes then having to loot meat off of its corpse and open the Pip-Boy in order to use it. Is there a mod somewhere (yes, I've searched) that somehow adds an option to consume, use or equip items immediately from the loot menu?

 

Thanks. :smile:

[gsmanners]

It might be more productive to look for mods that automatically loot containers and/or corpses. I know I've discussed this idea a number of times, and I know how to do it myself but I don't think anyone has actually implemented anything.

 

I have an experimental weapon that automatically loots whatever you kill, but it's far too overpowered to be acceptable to most people in this community. The funny thing is that I'm thinking about making it even more powerful than it is already.

 

In case anyone is interested in implementing this idea for an auto-loot device, it would work something like this:

 

1) Use FOSE and Goto loops to scan the area for dead NPCs and removeallitems to an off-world container.

2) Scan the area for dropped weapons and gethealth/additemhealthpercent/disable/markfordelete to that off-world container.

3) Make the off-world container accessible through some player-carried token.

[ArbPotatoes]

Sounds like an interesting idea, but in my case I still have to go through the Pip-Boy. That would put all the loot from nearby objects into a single loot menu right?

[gsmanners]

If you were go to the auto-loot route, I suppose you could hot-key the token for the off-world container. You could then select want you want from that, then go to the pipboy and select whatever you want to use. It's still a multi-step process, but at least you wouldn't have to do a lot of looting.

 

I really ought to just implement this myself, although I like to test my mods for at least a month these days.