Lever-action shotgun - please help!

[beimansan]

I wanted a more realistic shotgun for fo3, and since there's no action/animation for pump action guns, I thought it would be neat to have a lever-action gun instead. The gun could look something like this -

 

http://www.sutcliffe.com/blog/wp-content/u...ver-shotgun.jpg

 

I have played around with FOMM to turn the BB gun into a make-believe shotgun - sound of Lincoln rifle and firing buckshots. What I have no experience with is messing with the actual models/graphics.

 

I think the BB rifle provides a great starting point for a decent lever-action shotgun. It probably only requires fattening of the barrel and thicker under-the-barrel tube 'magazine' and a slightly longer forward wood stock. The butt stock can even remain as is - as if it's sawed off version like the one in Terminator 2.

 

Can anyone with any experience with making models make these (hopefully very simple) modifications for me - and for those others who might also be interested? I would be very grateful for even a 5 minute slapdash job since it will be better than running around the wasteland with a make-believe shotgun/BB gun....

 

Thanks!!

[Bean0]

Sorry, I can't help much in terms of modeling, but I really like the idea.

I also wanted to see a pump-action in the game, I would have never thought to use the lever animation. That's very good thinking on your part and a good way of getting around the difficulties with getting new animations without the SDK. It would make a wonderful middle weapon between the sawed-off and the combat shotguns, perhaps someone could script it to be carried by raiders or scavengers.

 

I also know that someone once made a Terminator shotgun as a skin for CSS but I don't know if it can be ported to F3.

http://www.fpsbanana.com/skins/19753

http://www.fpsbanana.com/skins/35352

They also made this nifty 30-30 as a Steyr Scout Reskin. It might be useful for something in the future, though I don't know what.

http://www.fpsbanana.com/skins/6751

[jaysus]

problem atm is that we are not yet able to incooperate new animations afaik (saidenstorm might know more) and that once we are the amount of new animations will be limited due to bad or at least annoying hardcoding on beth side...

[Bean0]

problem atm is that we are not yet able to incooperate new animations afaik (saidenstorm might know more) and that once we are the amount of new animations will be limited due to bad or at least annoying hardcoding on beth side...

No, he said we can use the BB gun animation, I'm pretty sure it would work too.

[Angelsilhouette]

problem atm is that we are not yet able to incooperate new animations afaik (saidenstorm might know more) and that once we are the amount of new animations will be limited due to bad or at least annoying hardcoding on beth side...

No, he said we can use the BB gun animation, I'm pretty sure it would work too.

 

Though it would be neat to incorporate the single handed spin that Ahnold and some other stars did to rooster the lever (I remember seeing someone do that in an old western once I'm pretty sure) as a new animation for it. :3

[beimansan]

Arnie did it in Terminator 2, but I believe it was John Wayne who made it famous - in one of his movies, he was riding a horse, shooting a lever-action Winchester with one hand and shooting a pistol with the other.

 

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg115/s.../John-Wayne.jpg

 

To get back to my original request - I thought it could be done with the BB rifle's lever-action animation. Nothing fancy or flashy - only thing required I thought was a re-sized/touched-up model of the BB rifle. Was I wrong?

 

Thanks again for your comments and feedback.