>>15192182
>What mod? I've been looking for anything that replaces the energy weapons, especially the plasma ones, but could never find any such mod. Do you have a name?
Yeah, I've got some names. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find many mods that replace the models directly, but I did find quite a few mods for new weapons with models I liked, and I made my own plugin to do the replacements. It's an extra step (and can get a bit tedious in NV, because some energy weapons can take attachments and every combination of attachments has its own model you need to replace), but it's worth it for me, and it's not hard to do.
You're in luck for the plasma weapons, though, because there's a mod that does have an option to replace them directly:
Glock Plasma Weapons Pack - https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/46334
Now for the ones I pillaged for models:
40K Laser Port - https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/35962
Combine Pulse Laser Carbine - https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/60312
Plasma Plus - https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/62253
Q-35 Plasma Beam Cannon (be careful not to accidentally enable the actual plugin for this one if you don't want to replace the vanilla Q-35's model and projectile) - https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/38735
Turbolaser Weapon Pack - https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/59886
Photon Laser Weapon Pack - https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/64384
The Lost Weapons of Destruction - https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/42067
Hedszots Weapon Pack - https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/40706
Arkarian Weaponry - Plasma Beam Assault Rifle - https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/37284
Cool Lasers (still a little too close to the "retrofuture" aesthetic for my liking, so I ended up not using it, but the rifle looks a bit like a TNG-era Star Trek phaser rifle if you're into that) - https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/45273
Something else you should be aware of is that if you decide to use the scoped version of the 40K laser rifles to replace anything, the game might crash when you try to draw it. Fortunately, New Vegas Anti Crash fixes that - https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/53635/
>Smooth Doom is orgasmic. It's incredibly how much better the game flows with buttery smooth animations.
Yeah, it's great. It really does make a big difference and actually makes the game more fun. The only problem I have with it is that the newer version took a lot of options away. You can't pick and choose which weapon sprites and muzzle flashes to replace anymore - you can either use the original sprites for all of them or the Doom 64 sprites for all of them. And if you choose the Doom 64 sprites, it actually affects gameplay, because the plasma rifle's rate of fire becomes much slower. That's a major pain in the ass, and I have no idea why the guy decided to make it that way. I really wanted to use the Doom 64 plasma gun sprite, but not if it screws with gameplay, so I'm stuck using the older version that doesn't have the Doom 64 plasma sprite implemented yet.