I'm getting much better at figuring out how to script things on my own (mostly due to all the great tutoring I have received here in the past year), but this one has me stumped.

I'm trying to figure out how to prevent the player from opening the VATS menu when one of there arms are crippled.
this is as far as I've gotten:

 If (Player.GetAv RightAttackCondition == 0 || Player.GetAV LeftAttackCondition == 0) 		if GetVATSMode == 1

I've searched both the GECK wiki and the FOSE commands, but I cannot figure out a way that would actually prevent the VATS menu from opening. I'm wondering if menumode might be the way to go, but I still cannot figure out how to prevent VATS from opening.

Any help with this is greatly appreciated!

Maybe just disable the VATs control key if an arm is disabled
http://fose.silverlock.org/fose_command_doc.html#DisableControl

Thanks RickerHK for your reply, but that didn't seem to work . . . the VATS menu just opened normally and remained open until I closed it.

Well it's not quite what you asked for, but I've been working on a mod for crippled limbs and I've been playing around with different ways to restrict action points.

No AP = No VATS?? :shrug:

(Granted you could still activate it but you won't be able to do anything with it)

Thanks SteveDog,

That's actually a good idea, that I might try with other conditions.

But I'm trying to prevent the VATS menu from opening at all, if you have a crippled arm. The reason is mostly due to a VATS bug that seems to pop up when an arm is crippled.

it works for me at the console:
disablecontrol 16

enablecontrol 16


I haven't tried it in a script, though.

Thanks RickerHK!

That did the trick very nicely.