hotkeyed weapons shown on body?

[Deleted82427968User]

So i've seen many mods but none really do what I'm asking. Would it be possible to show both a back-holstered weapon and a side-holstered weapon at the same time using the hotkeys? Like you could assign hotkeys 1 and 3 to be back-holstered and side-holstered respectively, so when you have weapons in those slots both will be shown on your character's body.

[madmongo]

Is it possible?

 

No. Yes. Kinda.

 

So here's the deal. The game is only going to display one weapon, whichever weapon you have equipped. But you can do a bit of trickery and create clothing/armor versions of weapons. So let's say you have a side-holstered pistol equipped and your other weapon is a back-holstered rifle. You equip the pistol, so it shows up at your side, and then you add a fake clothing/armor version of the rifle to your back. Bingo. Your character looks like they have both weapons equipped. Want to change to the rifle? No biggie. Just swap out the clothing/armor rifle for the real rifle, and swap out the real pistol for the clothing/armor version of the pistol.

 

The difficult part of this is that you have to make clothing/armor versions of every weapon, and do some scripting trickery to make it all work behind the scenes. Obviously, it will only work the weapons that you create clothing/armor copies of, so it's not a generic thing that will work with weapons from other mods and that sort of thing.

 

For my own personal use I already do a cheap unscripted version of this for my own player character. I think that if my character is carrying a pistol, a rifle, and a katana, that they should look like they are carrying a pistol, rifle, and katana. So I made clothing/armor versions of each, and I manually swap them out whenever I change weapons. It's klunky, but it's good enough for me, and I only needed to make copies of the weapons that I actually use. An automated version with hotkeys would definitely be a lot nicer, but that is way more work than I personally want to put into it.

 

I also have different backpacks that I swap out depending on how much junk I am carrying. It really bugs me when I'm carrying fourteen thousand different items and my character is just standing there in-game with nothing but a vault suit visible. Totally ruins the immersion.

 

So, there you go. I don't have the desire to make this, but if someone else wants to do the work (and it's a LOT of work), that's how you can do it.

[Radioactivelad]

This exists, in pretty much exactly the way described in both you guy's post with Armed to the Teeth.

 

It does require the WRP texture pack though, which if you're like me, you're not the biggest fan of for various reasons.