About this mod
This mod introduces a Decorative Festus Restored Puppetry to the game, and can be found inside Goodsprings Prospector Saloon. This is also a modders resource.
- Permissions and credits
- Changelogs
---DESCRIPTION---
This mod introduces a Decorative Festus Restored Puppetry to the game, and can be found inside Goodsprings Prospector Saloon. This is also a modders resource.
According to Fallout New Vegas Wikicommunity, Festus is a custom animatronic automaton built by RobCo Industries, that was shipped to and installed in the Sunset Sarsaparilla Company's headquarters in Las Vegas takes away the mystique. He was in fact designed as an interactive display for visitors and tourists.
It also mentions that more Festus-modelrobots were intended to be purchased by Sunset Sarsaparilla and shipped to the company's regional offices located around the United States. This never happened due to the Great War of 2077.
What if more Festus-model robots wereindeed purchased by Sunset Sarsaparilla, and on their way to the company's regional offices the Great War started. Many years later someone was able to loot the bus where they were been transported and sell some of them. In this case, one was purchased for the Goodsprings Prospector Saloon.
-FESTUS IN REAL LIFE-
Festus is a reference to the characterFestus of the 1952 radio and 1955 television Western drama series Gunsmoke. Heres a video showing him in live action:
---FEATURES---
- 1 Festus Restored Static model located inside Goodsprings Prospector Saloon. It has a Collision Mesh and the area where it was located is fully navmeshed.
- 1 Static Festus Restored Model that can be used as a modders resource.
---LIMITATIONS---
THE ASSET PROVIDED IN THIS MOD ONLY PROVIDES A STATIC MODEL WITH THE PURPOSE TO DECORATE EXTERIORS/INTERIORS. IT WON'T MOVE OR TALK.
The original Festus was able to talk/interactwith the player because is a creature that has its own animations/skeleton.
---PLUGINS---
FestusRestored.esp
REQUIREMENTS:
Fallout New Vegas.
---INSTALLATION---
1) Download the file calledFestusRestored.zip
2) Unzip the file.
3) Open the folder called FestusRestored.
4)Grab both Meshes and Textures foldersand the plugin called FestusRestored.esp and drop them into your Data Folder
(the one where your FalloutNV.exe and FalloutNVLauncher.exe are located).
5) Open Fallout Mod Manager/NexusManager, find the plugin FestusRestored.esp you dropped in the Data folder and
tick it. Start the game.
---UNINSTALLATION---
1)Go to your Data folder (the one whereyour FalloutNV.exe and FalloutNVLauncher.exe are located), open your meshes
folder and erase the folder called prodlimenbox; 2) then go again to your Data
folder, open your textures folder and erase the folder called prodlimenbox; 3).
Go to your Data folder again and erase the plugin called FestusRestored.esp.
---TOOLS USED---
Blender 2.49 (Reshapping).
GIMP 2.10.10 (Retexturing).
---CREDITS---
Prodlimen for reshaping and retexturingthe original asset with the use of vanilla resources.
Obsidian for creating Fallout New Vegasand the original asset.
Blender and GIMP development teams forcreating such amazing tools.
-PERMISSIONS-
You're allowed to use/modify this assetas long as you give proper credit.