Used your script...

So, I get this PM to my Nexus account this evening:

"Hello,

I have just completed for myself a functional grenade launcher mod using a LR300 model based on xzax's LR300ModAssaultRifle mod (http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=6261), but the original script was based on the work made by 1337martyr in his mod "1337martyrs_GrenadeLauncher_functional".
Unfortunatly this script proved unstable to me as it focus on equipping directly the weapon, main bugs for example you NEED at least two types of ammo for the selection message to appear and all this complicate as a "needequip" condition spreads..., not even ONE type of ammo?: no weapon equipped...
BUT i came across your script a few days ago, and i found quite different and ingenious your approach to use an "armor token" to manage the change and allow to run a second script.
So i rewrote the whole shazam based on your scripting to incorporate 4 types of grenades plus semi & auto firing mode for the rifle; I'm planning on adding later different types of firing (standart, high velocity, incendiary ZhuRong style projectiles) and maybe a CALIBR compatability.
This was my first experience in scripting but it worked! some good old reverse-engeneering and few sparkling braincells have paid.
I would like to release this mod on the Nexus , it would be also my first published mod, YOU would have course be given full credits for the scripting inspiration, along with the others inspiring authors."


Well willya lookit that shit.

Granted, the script works... but I never thought it was all that good...

Of course, I said yes. While I try to avoid verbatim copying, Gods know I've been known to 'take inspiration' from other scripters plenty - even if it's just seeing which function works best in a given situation.

So, okay, for all my ranting and raving, most denizens of the Fallout 3 Nexus are decent enough folk. They just don't piss me off to the point that I feel the need to blog about it.

Still, I hate to put across the impression that I think everyone over there is an ass. Hence, I correct myself publicly here. Or, at least as publicly as can be when confessing in front of the odd two dozen of you that read this thing.

Kinda funny. No one wants to use the script that drives the RR Companions' AI that I spent three months working on and tweaking until it acted right - or at least if they are using it, they don't bother to mention it to me - but the weapon-changer system that I banged out the archetype of in an hour one night on a bored whim? Apparently that's the impressive one from my portfolio.

I'd be discouraged in my AI work, if I didn't know how much ridiculously larger 20thCW's userbase is than the RR mods.