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Cruor34

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A long time ago, I made a mod for New Vegas for myself. It "normalized" human health (for example made it like 120-200 rather than 20-400 or whatever it was) and made weapon damage and armor more realistic, among other things. I never published the mod, but if you want an idea, it was very much like this mod I made for Fallout 4 and did publish: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/5195 Anyway, on to the point: I reformatted my HD a while back and forgot I had my modded NV files on it. Unlike Fallout 4 where you can mod a "race" (human, mirelurk, mr handy race etc etc) as far as I am aware, New Vegas has nothing like that. I painstakingly had to go through every single entry and mod health/armor etc myself. It took forever and was absolute tedium. So my question, is there a faster way to mod the health and armor of NPCs? An example would be is there a quick way to give all humans a base of 100 hp, or all Protectrons a base of 250 HP and say 50 DT like there was in Fallout 4? or do I need to do it one by one for every npc in the game?

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It might be possible through scripting, I very briefly looked into the possibility scaling of scaling NPC and creature HP. However I ended getting CTD's with my testing script and since I wasn't super interested into it, I dropped it there.
But to be fair I am very much a novice as far as scripting goes and again not much time went into it, so you might be able to get it to work. Anyway I will share what I managed to find out.

 

While there isn't a specific race to edit. Fallout New Vegas does split Actors between Humans(and non-feral ghouls) and creatures(anything other than Humans). It then further divides Creatures in subcategories. This is the function to check for them and also lists them https://geckwiki.com/index.php?title=GetCreatureType

If you combine that with Form Type IDs and the GetLoadedType functions, you might be able to create something that does what you want to do. I know of some armor scaling mods that use that method and they work(I even made 1 myself for the record)

https://geckwiki.com/index.php?title=GetLoadedType

https://geckwiki.com/index.php?title=Form_Type_IDs

 

I hope this helps.

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