Need help modding the Flare Gun

[Omny]

I'm trying to make a mod to turn the Flare Gun into a more useful weapon in its own right, a la Team Fortress 2's flare gun. Trouble is, my skills with FO4Edit are rudimentary at best, and I was hoping to get some advice or tips from the people here.

 

Here's what I've done thus far: I've copied the vanilla Flare Gun as a new record in my own separate mod, making it its own weapon, which I've renamed "Flare Pistol" for convenience. Then I changed the stats of this weapon (double crit damage, change damage type to Fire, increased fire damage, faster reload speed, fire effects on crits, etc). However, after testing it in-game, I can see I still have a way to go. I tried firing it at a couple people- when struck, they simply act as if shot by a regular bullet, rather than bursting into flames on hit (although they do burst into flames on critical hits as stated before), and if I miss and hit the ground or a wall, the flare lights up and starts spewing red smoke everywhere, which gets really annoying after a while. Plus I'm not 100% sure if it still summons the Minutemen or whatever the original flare gun does; I never used it myself.

 

Anyway, my end goals are thus:

 

-Make the Flare Gun a proper weapon in its own right

 

-Increase damage

 

-Increase projectile speed

 

-Get rid of the smoke effects when hitting a wall, replace with a small fire burst

 

-Make the projectile more visible (have it light up as it flies through the air)

 

-Set people on fire when struck

[RustyXXL]

Most of the Stuff you describe should be in

 

AmmoFlareGunProjectile "Flare" [PROJ:001025AF]

and

FlareGunExplosionNEW [EXPL:00157CB6]

 

Copy, change the references for your gun and edit away.