Welll, there was http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20050329135935/fallout/images/a/a0/Gizmo.jpg in Fallout 2

If all they eat in the wasteland is potato chips, bubblegum, tv dinners, soda and meat, I'd expect there to be a few fatty mcgoo's.

Reminds me of a humanized Jabba The Hut. That would fit perfectly in New Vegas. Crime lord. Gangster. Loves gambling, slaves, and torture. Uses Fisto for entertainment. He could send bounty hunters on you. You hear stories of him, and when you finally meet him he is really some huge guy unable to move from his chair. BAM!

Check out my link. Pretty much that exact character was in FO2.

Damn! I thought I was on to something here. Pretty cool.

It's because every female human/ghoul and every male human/ghoul (as in Morrowind/Oblivion) uses the same body model. And all the armor & clothes are built around that model as well. To make a fat guy, you need to build a custom body for him, and custom clothes - and then you have to make it impossible to put other outfits on him and/or loot his clothes, unless you also make matching armor models for the other body proportions.

(The height thing in Obliv/FO3 was just a scale factor, as far as I knew - multiply all dimensions by 0.8, for example. Person is smaller but the same basic shape.)

NOOO!!! You're not supposed to give a real explaination!

There were no fat people because I mean.... wasteland food.... come on!

You can control how much neck fat you have, anymore than that and you're roast pig for some geckos.

Actually, that's not entirely true, there's the setscale console command


haven't noticed any gameplay changes for weight but height can make it so your char is too short to fit in some doors (really noticed that in Morrowind) or make it hard to get air when surfacing in water.
A racist for wanting more diversity, new one to me. Oh, BTW dwarfism is in the Fallout lore

yeah both elder scrolls III & elder scrolls iv cs but not FO3 GECK

its might be to late if it isnt added in now, but it might not be ALLLL that hard, maybe adding a height variation and when the npc/pc puts clothes on they match the variation size/number?

There is not much you can do with the body, you can adjust the face to be pretty pudgy if you want to. However like any changes to the body, it did not affect gameplay in FO3.

Best thing you can do to approximate this is to adjust Strength and Agility (first up, second down typically).

However because of the way the Armor and Clothing is designed, having different graphics for each body type would soon get way to cumbersome. They would have to create a version of each armor or clothing for each body type. Otherwise, your love handles would stick out of the sides of your shirt. And, it would not look like a Muffin Top either.

The problem is, even slight changes to the body shape will mess up the fit of the clothing and armor. This is why mods like Better Bodies et al usually benifit from or require other clothing mods.

This time parts of your SPECIAL stats like Strength and some of the traits will affect your character size. I forgot what video it was in but someone selected a character with 9 or 10 Strength and he was just completely swoll in 3rd person. Small Frame will probably make you skinnier with Bruiser making you wumbo.

Keep http://www.holybug.com/imgs/holybug/Fat-Football-Player.jpg image in your mind. It will be similar with a fatty in a Power Armor.