Okay427 Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 (edited) This was actually an idea I was thinking about too, glad to see something similar here. I was thinking more of a Samus Aran-esque laser arm cannon, like the kind of projectile assualtrons use, or even a grenade launcher à la the mod for sentry bots in the new DLC. With Automatron out, the meshes for arm-mounted weapons exist, and it wouldn't be too difficult to make them usable weapons themselves. I was thinking it'd be possible to use those meshes and the third-person power armor pistol animations (holding just the right arm out vertically). It wouldn't be as cool as a power armor mod sure, but as long as the animations fit it wouldn't be too far off. I've never done something quite this advanced so I'm not sure, but the only two issues I can think of are the first-person animations not fitting and animating meshes (e.g. spinning minigun barrels) once they're converted to pistols. I can do textures (if they're even necessary), limited mesh stuff, and some FO4Edit stuff, but I'm trying to learn more with NifSkope and the like. Hopefully now that the Creation Kit is coming out it won't be too difficult to implement, but if anyone else is interested in working on this (Crosstieger) I'll lend my help however I can! EDIT: I'd also like to add that a popular mod for New Vegas did something similar, though for very different reasons. ST Robot Race included equipable arm cannons that "encased" the player's hand and used the pistol animations: ^That is basically what I'm hoping to achieve with power armor. Edited April 20, 2016 by Okay427 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firsTraveler Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Like to see an entire series of heavy weapons only available on PA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekayne Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 my big gripe was that you needed a whole new skill for "Big" weapons. which meant when power armor was being used you had to stick with your dinky pea shooter if you wanted to do the best damage. maybe with it being an arm mounted cannon, it would operate off the rifle/ automatic weapon tree? I liked jeff's suggestion of a grenade alternate. could be really cool to have the sentry-esque cluster bomb launcher as a grenade system on the armor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ansler Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Oh God.Please put a sword for the right arm as well.Then,I'd use WInterized X-01 and be Frank Horrigan. Ha, Frank Horrigan. Now there's a nuclear blast from Fallout's past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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