Triaxx2 Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 So I'm enjoying playing the game with Electro-City's Darker Nights plug in, but the trouble is that Night-Vision doesn't seem to want to work properly on my system, so I need some alternate lighting solutions. Fallout 2 provided me an answer, and now all I need is some help from the great modders here on the Nexus to make it happen. In Fallout 2, one of the item/weapons, was a road flare. It could be thrown in an inactive mode, or lit. When lit, and held, it would provide light for a time, and it was excellent for exploring because you could see where the character was going. When lit and thrown at enemies, it provided a pool of light, which allowed for improved targeting. Thus my thought is to create something similar for New Vegas. My questions then are: 1) Did someone else do this and I just didn't see it on the site? 2) Frag Mines leave a placed object, how do I do that? 3) Can I cause a placed object to generate a light source when it lands? And if I can, how do I do it? Preferably after a short delay so it doesn't blind the player when the item is activated? 4) Can anyone model me a road flare for the purpose? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G33k3dGam3r Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Try this mod here Glow Sticks its not a road flare but its does the job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triaxx2 Posted August 14, 2011 Author Share Posted August 14, 2011 That's perfect. It's actually better than what I was thinking. Thanks for the quick response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihilisaurus Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 There's a flares mod called "Light My flare" that has road flares as well as shotgun-fired flare rounds. I'd recommend it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triaxx2 Posted August 15, 2011 Author Share Posted August 15, 2011 Thanks, I downloaded it, I'll give it a shot. The glow sticks work great, but hopefully the flares work too. I love flares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrooperScooperMKII Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 (edited) Nvamp has flares listed in the aid tab. They are thrown like grenades to create deployable light. I recall seeing flare gun ammo in Goodsprings General Store, but I never bothered to hunt down te flare gun, wherever or whatever it may be.The big core mods IIRC are Project Nevada and FOOK, but it incorporates smaller mods as well.EDIT for clarity, sorry. Edited August 16, 2011 by TrooperScooperMKII Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triaxx2 Posted August 16, 2011 Author Share Posted August 16, 2011 Hmm... haven't seen that one. I'll have to try that as well. I haven't had a chance to try out the Light my Flares ones yet, so I'll see which I like. I did come up with an alternate solution, which was to create a night-vision helmet using a Blastmaster Helmet and applying the Cat-eye effect to it. Works well, but when I remove the helmet, I get the 'drug wore off' effect. Can that be stopped, or do I have to create a separate effect to get around it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triaxx2 Posted August 18, 2011 Author Share Posted August 18, 2011 I didn't bother with Nvamp, though while I love the marking sticks of Glow Sticks, which are particularly useful in sewers, Light My Flares is just so good it's unfair to other mods. Illuminating flares create enough light that you can see, even with the Very Dark nights of EC's Darker Nights. I do go through a lot of them, because they work better when fired in pairs out of the Sawed-off Shotgun. On the other hand, rapidly fired by the Riot Shotgun in God Mode creates a miniature sun. Which is totally and completely awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrooperScooperMKII Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Yeah, Light My Flare sounds like the mod in Nvamp. IIRC there was a menu thing in the aid/apparel tab... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triaxx2 Posted August 19, 2011 Author Share Posted August 19, 2011 Yeah, there is there, so that's probably it. Still awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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