Vault suit and Pipboy

[Chris Parks]

When you leave the arroyo temple, you automatically have the pipboy and the vault suit.

What exactly controls the change from one to the other?

 

[lisac2k]

The game engine. It's hardcoded in it.

 

[Chris Parks]

The game engine. It's hardcoded in it.

So could it be altered in any way? There must be some sort of trigger that turns the pipboy on when leaving temple or entering next map?

 

[lisac2k]

Playing the VSUIT.MVE triggers it. So, you can control it through the scripts, e.g. by playing an empty movie file (called VSUIT.MVE) at the time the dude should receive the PIPBoy.

 

[Chris Parks]

Thanks, I'll play around with that and see what I can do.

 

[Lexx]

Or you hack the fallout2.exe ... here on nma there are some tools in the files category. With this you can turn on or off the "i have the vsuite from the beginning"-thing.

 

[Sirren67]

Use Loader creator by Andyspacetrain: you can have the player get both the jumpsuit and the Pipboy from the very start, and desable movies too.
See you.

 

[Wild_qwerty]

But there must be a variable somewhere in the persons game that says "yes i've played the movie" or "no I havent played the movie"

From memory I'm sure it's actaully two different variables in that control the pipboy and the vault suit. I remeber looking through the fallout2.exe and I'm sure its a different control for each one, I figure that when the movies played they just set both variables at the same time by a script.

So if we look at anyt scripts assoaciated with this clip we may be able to find a variable that can be reset (ie if the player lost his vault suit)