cable1975 Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 I was just looking at getting into archery and it occurred to me that it might be interesting to add some bow and arrow weapons to NV. It could be a challenging way to survive in the NV wasteland and you could add all kinds of mods to the bow and the arrows such as laser targeting or explosive tips. I know oblivion had a decent system but I don't know how easy it would be to bring that to FO or NV. There are all kinds of bow designs that would be interesting to reproduce. Thank you to anyone that took the time to read this and consider it as a viable mod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taolan13 Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 Not sure if this can be done in the game engine. As epic as it would be for stealthy melee-favoring characters to have a low-weight high-power ranged weapon with recoverable projectiles, I think your best bet would be to do a crossbow at first. Maybe using the scripts for a grenade launcher but faster non-exploding projectiles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lateralizm Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 I personally think that the engine could run it. The gamebryo engine is more powerful than Fallout allows itself to be. This being mainly because the whole game has such a cluttered world so as to be realistic. If Oblivion could pull it off, I think that Fallout can. Of course, it would require some serious animation skills to pull something like that off. Maybe you could make a way for people who have Oblivion to activate the bow animations in Fallout? Again, this would require the user of said mod to have Oblivion already, so it would be a very limited mod. Kinda like Requiem for The Capital wasteland I suppose. Good luck to you mate!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moraelin Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 I'm not sure if one can actually add a whole new animation. Since Oblivion, I've only seen people replacing animations. E.g., the guns for Oblivion were replacing the staff animations. Of course, I wouldn't know, since I can't edit animations anyway. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure there's a crossbow around. Maybe you can just use that one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killstorm37 Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 it is posible to add new animations without replacing them, that was actualy one of the problems they adressed when making the GECK. however i have no idea how to make one for a game, i do 3D animated shorts and what not but i have no idea as far as nif animations. the best person for that i know of is joefox http://newvegasnexus.com/modules/members/index.php?id=964147 you might want to ask them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cable1975 Posted May 3, 2011 Author Share Posted May 3, 2011 Thanks for the positive feedback. It's surprising that the devs didn't put this in already but I am guessing with all of the firearms they must have considered it too pedestrian. I will just cross my fingers and hope that someone skilled takes an interest. There was a time when I would have tried to figure this out but I have no time for it right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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