Rex with a normal dog'd head.

[fightingdownfall]

I love the whole "cybernetic enhanced dog" companion thing in almost every way. The one single element about Rex that absolutely and completely turns me off regarding him as my companion is the whole visible brain thing. I don't know precisely why, but it just rubs me the wrong way. I think its in the sense that to me, it kind of makes him look like less of a loyal man's best friend dog side-kick and more of some evil cruel science experiment that some sick misogynistic douche bag did just to see if he could as opposed to it having been done to save his life or some other noble humane reason. I just prefer the backstory and reasoning of why Rex has all of the cybernetic implants being that there was some kind of accident or he was injured helping or saving someone else's life and the implants had to be grafted onto him to save his life. But his brain, heart, and soul were all left uninjured and therefore unaltered. Basically, all that I want is for Rex to have a normal dog's head, meaning WITHOUT being able to see his frickin' BRAIN. lol There was a mod on the Nexus that I saw long ago where someone had swapped Rex's head out with Dog-Meat's from F3, but after searching for it for what seemed like an eternity, I assume it must have been taken down. That is actually EXACTLY what I am requesting though, but since I know that using a resource from F3 would probably piss someone off for being copyright infringement or whatever, any NORMAL looking canine model from NV directly would suit just fine. :) Well, now that I've gushed out my tree-hugging PITA-soaked reasoning, I just hope someone will create it!! lol And I can't friggin' stand PITA btw. ;)

[Glenstorm]

I love the whole "cybernetic enhanced dog" companion thing in almost every way. The one single element about Rex that absolutely and completely turns me off regarding him as my companion is the whole visible brain thing. I don't know precisely why, but it just rubs me the wrong way. I think its in the sense that to me, it kind of makes him look like less of a loyal man's best friend dog side-kick and more of some evil cruel science experiment that some sick misogynistic douche bag did just to see if he could as opposed to it having been done to save his life or some other noble humane reason. I just prefer the backstory and reasoning of why Rex has all of the cybernetic implants being that there was some kind of accident or he was injured helping or saving someone else's life and the implants had to be grafted onto him to save his life. But his brain, heart, and soul were all left uninjured and therefore unaltered. Basically, all that I want is for Rex to have a normal dog's head, meaning WITHOUT being able to see his frickin' BRAIN. lol There was a mod on the Nexus that I saw long ago where someone had swapped Rex's head out with Dog-Meat's from F3, but after searching for it for what seemed like an eternity, I assume it must have been taken down. That is actually EXACTLY what I am requesting though, but since I know that using a resource from F3 would probably piss someone off for being copyright infringement or whatever, any NORMAL looking canine model from NV directly would suit just fine. :) Well, now that I've gushed out my tree-hugging PITA-soaked reasoning, I just hope someone will create it!! lol And I can't friggin' stand PITA btw. ;)

 

If you are willing to get your hands dirty, it's a simple edit.

 

Go to FalloutNV.esm in GECK.

Search for Rex in the Object window.

Open the creature Rex.

Go to ModelList tab.

Uncheck everything with "brain" on it.

Press OK and save.

There, you have the ESP now.

 

It breaks immersion with the quest though. But I guess you could care less if it annoys you that much.