diving

[yungskiz]

first off, i know about the re-breather, and the mods that add water breathing to the space suit, but there were some cazadores....and a lake, and while swimming away, i happened to notice theres actually stuff down there! i decided to take a break from the usual, and enabled god mode and explored the lake floor (near calville bay...ish) now i wasnt going to explore every inch for easter eggs, but i never really noticed that it wasnt just empty space

 

now the answer to my question is that there are not that many bodies of water large enough in the mojave, and underwater combat is not a thing (which someone should fix! it was a thing in morrowind)

 

but i wonder why theres no diving aspect in NV, sure theres the single boomers mission but thats about it.

 

i like exploration mods, and im not asking for a diving simulator here.......buuuuuut

 

it would be awesome if the under water element could be expanded upon

 

wet suits, dry suits, dive suits + helmets

oxygen tanks that run out/can be filled - the advanced recon night vision goggles run off energy cells, the tanks could run off "oxygen cells"

more bodies of water to explore, i know the existing ones are built into the landscape, but whos to say you couldn't add separate interior cells or world spaces where theres no landmass, but a boat to be used as a base of operation

 

dive knives and harpoon guns, even if the under water combat is a no go :( they would still be cool to have

 

im used to getting one reply for every 40 or so views, and thats fine, i know modding isnt easy, ive tried, and my laptop reeeeally despises the geck but ive been able to do simple stuff, so even if you have no intention of working on a project like this - and its not a small one- if you like the idea or have something to add SAY SOMETHING, if enough people would be interested in something like this someone might give it a shot, if im the only one then so be it, realistically this is an rpg game that has more fps inspired mods than any other series and while it could fit the lore diving is boring in comparison, but like i said, i like to explore, others do as well, and as it turns out, there is stuff down there!

[yungskiz]

adding this as a separate post as a help me help myself kind of thing and ideas for NVDS - new vegas dive simulator, and if you know how to do any of this then by all means give it a shot, but im looking for explanations, or tutorial links, i may never get to any of this, NV is old but good mods keep coming out, im waiting for the next fallout or MGSV to come out for pc to get a new machine, and since my NV data folder is 13gigs (last install was 22) and my skyrim folder is 17g, unless i stop making music i wont be able to have two fallout titles with mods at the same time lmao

 

1. how to make a really deep really large pool in an interior - like how they test actual dive...and sometimes space equipment(space...thats next!) as a proof of concept/demo for the added content

2.oxygen tanks, im thinking two fire extinguishers retexed to black or blue or yellow (different capacity/durability if the rebreather can be made to degrade with use) on the players back as an apparel item

3.taking the tanks from the incinerator/flamer for use in a dry suit...ie take the auto equipped backpack from the weapon and turning it into an actual apparel item

4.how to have multiple instances of a retex, i can change the color of an object, i did with a vault suit, which i could use here, but that involves overwriting the texture, i know the texture and mesh are linked, but when i modded, in the construction kit, there was a field for both texture and mesh, the geck does it weird with a world model and never let me select an individual texture and mesh, but the mesh was linked to the texture or something...i have no clue, i know it involves nifskope, and that wretched program is why i will never mod, it broke my disk drive.....or it least it angered me to the point of throwing a laptop

5.this is beyond my current mindset, but how to add water to landscape, as in how to make the the "ocean" floor

 

aside from retexes/mashups of vanilla items it would need goggles, as there really isnt a diving helmet, and while a mashup of the biker goggles and rebreather would look old school/lore friendly, im not sure it would fit the bill, theres boats in game, which items can be added to, to make it look the part, other than that, thats all ive got for now