Upgrading Rex's Brain

[TheNexxusOne]

Does replacing Rex's brain actually do anything at all?

 

I am working on a mod that affects some of the follower stats and when I tried to find Rex's "Unshakable Tracker" perk in the GECK to make sure the speed boost was of an appropriate magnitude, I could not find it! I searched through the Perks, Actor Abilites, and scripts, but no where at all could I find any bit of code that modified Rex's movement speed after transplanting Violetta's brain into his brain case. So does he really get faster when you give him Violetta's brain? If so, what values in the GECK control this?

 

Then I decided to look for an enhanced attack from transplanting Rey's brain, and also found nothing. When ED-E's weapon is upgraded, the GECK actually switches his zapper out with a different form number weapon that is more powerful. Thinking a similar set-up was used for Rex, I checked the weapon list...only one entry for Rex's Bite. So what happens when you give him Rey's brain? Nothing?

 

And finally the boosted HP for Lupa's Brain. Is this in the GECK somewhere?

 

If anyone can assist me with locating these variables in the GECK, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you!

[davidlallen]

I tracked down Violetta's brain effect. It is done in the quest vDialogueJacobstown under the topic vDialogueJacobstownJacobstownCalamityTopic011. The result script basically does, "set RexSpeed to (RexSpeed*1.5)" with some other stuff around it.

 

I found this by searching for the text "violetta" which led to the object name, "VMS24BrainVioletta", and searched for text of that. It's only used in a few places.

Edited December 24, 2010 by davidlallen

[TheNexxusOne]

Thank you very much! I looked in some dialogue files, but I find them combersome to navigate.

 

Thank you for the assist, I will go look at it myself now!