Living Mutant Sea Life

[ReachForTheSkybox]

So, Fallout's oceans are a big waste of some great ideas, one of which being mutant sea life. So I'd like to suggest a few ways a person with more initiative and talent than me could bring fallout's oceans to life.

 

I know a few mods already try to do this, but most of them are Work In Progress and don't fit into the game, mostly due to animating these creatures being a pain in the ass.

 

So, the most obvious creature to bring to life is the Ghoul Dolphin. Dead ones can be found all across the game, so it's a canon creature that just isn't seen alive, sadly. So, to bring this to life in a way that would feel natural.

• You need to modify the model. The Ghoul Dolphin model is bloated, because when Whales decompose they fill with gas and bloat, and eventually explode. So if a Ghoul Dolphin was alive, it would have to be a lot slimmer. This would also make the fins
• It would need a retexture to fit with the modified model, and to make it look less like a decayed corpse.
• It would need actual animations. The most obvious option (to me) is to take the animation of a Horker swimming and use that skeleton on the dolphin whale. The problem is that Horker's are in skyrim, and I don't know if skyrim animations can be ported to Fallout 4.

If you wanted to do a mutant fish or shark you could use the slaughterfish animations and rigs on a custom model, or you could try to use animation for the Sandworms in Nuka world for it. There's more options with regards to animation, but you'll need a fully custom model.

 

For a mutant squid (say, using the scrapped textures) you'll need both a custom model and custom animations (likely on a new skeleton unless you got really creative), both of which would be exceptionally challenging. Wouldn't recommend this one.

 

I don't even know if some of the stuff I'm suggesting is possible, so correct me if it isn't, and even if it was possible, it'd be quite difficult.

[Veliwine]

Wouldn't be able to use the slaughterfish animations and riggings unless they're already in the game. Not allowed to rip things from other games for mods, even other Bethesda games.

[Wunderbot]

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/16915/?