Changing the scale of radiation

[CabooseNor]

It's easy enough to change the scale of radiation in the game - how much radiation you can take before you go on to the next level of radiation sickness, and eventually - death.

 

I feel that the vanilla game is just too easy with regards to radiation, and I can drink tons of irradiated water without any side-effects. So I changed the whole scale (instead of going in and editing every damn radiation effect).

 

However, the radiation meter is all wrong now. It goes by the default scale of 0 - 1000 (where 1000 means death). Is there a way for me to easily edit the numbers on the scale so that the meter matches my own scale for radiation? I imagine XML editing. But where do I look?

[ub3rman123]

It would probably be easier to edit the radiation to make it more potent. Multiplying rads by 5 would be the equivalent of a 0-200 meter. The effect points can likely also be changed.

[CabooseNor]

I really wanted to avoid that. See, it works perfectly just scaling the sickness thresholds. The only problem is that it doesn't reflect in the radiation meters and the radiation warning on your HUD. It is much easier to change the severity of radiation this way, and also it avoids any incompatabilities with mods that changes consumables that are radioactive, for example.

 

I was hoping of a way to at least get the radiation warning on the HUD to show up correctly with my own scale. Can anyone give me some pointers as to what xml file(s) or where in the files I should look to change the values?

[CabooseNor]

And I will make new .dds files if necessary to get the numbers on the scale right. I only need to know which (xml?) values to change to make the marker on the radiation meter move correctly according to the changed radiation sickness thresholds.

 

OK, so it must be somewhere in "hud_main_menu.xml" right?

Edited February 4, 2011 by CabooseNor