knightinflames Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 (edited) So i've never posted anything here before but since FO3 i've been modding quite a lot of games i play and skyrim when modded is a pretty freaking awesome experience... this last days i have been thinking of a mod, related to the weight on inventories being visible on the characters, which i will be explaining below. I will admit that out of lazyness i have not searched the forums or anywhere else if a mod like this exists, so i dont mind if this gets deleted or moved or whatever... BASE IDEA: Make it so the inventory weight is in some way visible on the characters. The reason for this is the fact that characters can carry a lot of stuff but you can only see like the stuff they have equipped... we all had our characters carrying loads of weapons/armor but we end up wondering where the hell are we carrying all that? Furthermore, being over-encumbered would make a little more sense if you could actually see how many bags the character is carrying... I know there are backpack and sachel mods out there that consist of equippable items but what i have in mind is something rather different. WHAT WOULD IT LOOK LIKE: I thought that a mod should be made so that depending on how much weight you carry backpacks/sachels and whatever other carrying gear we can think of starts showing up on characters. I thought this could be applied to all humanoid characters... So imagine you are carrying 50 weight, in this case maybe a couple of pouches and a sachel or something like that shows up on your character... when you get to 100 weight the previous still show up but now a larger sachel appear on the side of the character (like he's carrying it around of course) and when you carry 150 weight a backpack shows up (still with all the previous ones visible), and so on... i can imagine characters carrying like 500 weight and having this massive backpacks to the point where the character is covered with bags/backpacks/containers (lol)... so basically the amount of carrying gear that shows up on your character scales with the weight you carry... FORECASTED ISSUES and POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS: issue1 - "i'm only carrying what i have equipped but, because i use heavy armor that is making my character's weight above X, and thus i have containers showing up on me" solution - program the mod so that it reduces the equipped item's weight from the weight count for containers to appear. issue2 - "I'm carrying a lot of stuff so my weight is so high that i can barely see my character with all the containers around him" or "Containers reduce visibility too much so combat gets too messy" solution - make the mod customizable so users can select the way they feel more confortable playing. For example, let players select the maximum weight they want conteiners to stack to so that no more containers appear above the chose weight. issue3 - "??? (might be added later)" if anyone is interested in working on this idea please let me know, i will help in whatever way i can, but i must warn you, i have never worked on any sort of mod before and am not familiar with the creation kits' interfaces or any particular programming language. What i know is how to model, texture, light and animate... Edited May 5, 2012 by knightinflames Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamienLZ Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 I'd only really like to see this if Pack Guars, Pack Horses, Pack Mules, Pack Cows, Following Carriages, etc get modded in as well. I can see two such mods going together very well in adding immersion, since atm I just cheat my weight up to 48000 because unlike morrowind, there are no pack guars D: Love the idea though in general and wonder if that is possible. Would probably work like "PlayerBurden >= 15% CarryWeightMax, AddItem.Player Backpack15, ForceEquip.Player Backpack 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightinflames Posted May 5, 2012 Author Share Posted May 5, 2012 I'd only really like to see this if Pack Guars, Pack Horses, Pack Mules, Pack Cows, Following Carriages, etc get modded in as well. I can see two such mods going together very well in adding immersion, since atm I just cheat my weight up to 48000 because unlike morrowind, there are no pack guars D: Love the idea though in general and wonder if that is possible. Would probably work like "PlayerBurden >= 15% CarryWeightMax, AddItem.Player Backpack15, ForceEquip.Player Backpack 15 i didnt even know of a mod figuring pack animals, lol... but yeah, i mean, it makes sense, although it wouldnt be a must, but maybe something to keep in mind. integrating both mods in one would be a nice immersion booster ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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