Needing Help With Making a Weapon + Mods

[Lonelywolfxx]

As someone who is wanting to creating a weapons for all New Vegas players to enjoy, im fairly new messing around with New Vegas.

 

Ive watched videos on weapon creation, and understand what i need. I have blender 2.49 with .nif, and gimp with a .dds plugin.

 

Before i dive into trying to make my own weapons and such, i wanted to tackle a smaller project, that of modding a weapon already in the game, the Marksman Carbine. I really enjoyed the gun, but the look of it always threw me off, i never liked it. It was always because of that acog style scope on it.

 

Micalov has a great little modders resource he created found here: http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/47486/

He's removed the scope, shortened the mag, and made the scope/silencer/ext mag separate mods.

 

What i would like to do with this would be to go in, and add a back iron sight to it, and add in a custom mid-power scope to it as a mod.

But i have no idea how the game handles the mods/textures.

So i have a few questions that maybe someone can help me out with:

 

1. Concerning adding the iron sight/scope mod. I understand that New Vegas uses separate models for a weapon with its mods. Would i be able to create the iron sight/scope and kinda copy/paste it into the other models?

 

2. How does New Vegas handle the textures for weapon mods? How and what do i use to edit the texture for them?

 

3. Do you have any links of video or walkthroughs i could watch/look through concerning things of this nature? I havent been able to find them myself but maybe im not looking in the right places.

 

Sorry if any of this is kind of a stupid question or extremely easy. Im a quick learner but sometimes i need things pointed out that were right under my nose or my hand held for a little bit.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.