REALISTIC HIT REACTIONS --- (Read the description)
In my never-ending quest to make New Vegas hit reactions and deaths look as realistic (and stylish) as possible, I've spent a huge amount of effort on updating a number of my mods.
In this video, you're seeing me endlessly bully some casino thugs while I have some damage-reaction related mods installed:
Dramatic Staggering https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mo...
Fetal Position Skeleton https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mo...
Awesome Crippling Effects 2 - DANCING RAGDOLLS VERSION (Important) https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mo...
The desired effect was achieved by doing 3 things: (1) Totally re-making the stagger animations. (2) Making the ragdoll behavior of limp humans more realistic. (3) Making enemies play a stagger animation for a moment, and then a fraction of a second later pushing them into a ragdoll state.
This hybrid animation-to-ragdoll method is a fun way to fake Euphoria physics like you might have seen in GTA IV, although it is more similar to certain shooter games in which characters will do a dying animation and then go ragdoll in the next moment.
Now that all of these mods have been updated, I'm extremely pleased with the result I've gotten, although there might be room for improvement. However, I'm going to focus on game development after I release Project Agility and Close Quarters Combat. Keep an eye out for updates and don't forget to nuke that subscribe button.