Favorites Menu Quick Item Switch
About Favorites Menu Quick Item Switch
Switch between items in the Favorites Menu without having to confirm your choice. This mod automatically confirms your selection so you don’t have to take your finger off the right control stick.
It does this by waiting for half a second after you move the Favorites Menu selector, and then it confirms that selection automatically for you. Each time you move the Favorites Menu selector, it resets the count; so you have time to move to the item you want to use before it confirms it.
I made three versions:
– 0.5 seconds (This is the main release, and the one I recommend for most people)
– 1.0 seconds (This has a slower delay for people who find 0.5 seconds too fast)
– 0.2 seconds (This has a faster delay for people who find 0.5 seconds too slow)
Installation
Nexus Mod Manager
To install via NMM, just click the DOWNLOAD (NMM) button.
Manual
Step One
Unzip the archive to the following location (unzipped files underlined):
/Fallout 4/Data/Interface/FavoritesMenu.swf
Note: If a file already exists there, it is most likely used by another mod. Sadly, you will not be able to use both mods unless a new FavoritesMenu.swf is created that combines the changes of both mods’ files.
Step Two
Open the Fallout4.ini found here:
Documents/My Games/Fallout4/Fallout4.ini
Step Three
Find this line:
sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS\
and add “, INTERFACE\” to the end if it does not already exist, like so:
sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS\, INTERFACE\
Note: I have seen other people recommend setting the Fallout4.ini file to Read Only in the file’s properties so it does not get reset by the game at any point.
Uninstallation
Nexus Mod Manager
To uninstall via NMM, select the mod under the Mods tab, and then either click the Disable (red slashed circle) button or the Delete (red x) button.
Manual
Step One
Delete the FavoritesMenu.swf file located here:
/Fallout 4/Data/Interface/FavoritesMenu.swf
Compatibility with other Mods
This mod is not compatible with any other mod that modifies the FavoritesMenu.swf file!
Change Log
0.8.0 – November 28, 2015
Initial release. Currently, there are only a half-second, a full-second, and a 1/5ths of a second version of the mod. It is not installable via a mod manager yet.
Future Plans
1) Update the mod to include settings you can alter if possible, such as:
– Enable / Disable quick switch on a per-directional basis
– Enable / Disable quick switch for consumable items like Stimpaks
Modder Technical Info
This mod was built with JPEXS Free Flash Decompiler using the bytecode editor to alter ActionScript3 code inside the SWF file. To learn more about programming in AVM2 bytecode, you can read this helpful document by Adobe: ActionScript Virtual Machine 2 (AVM2) Overview (PDF).
I will be looking into creating a more in-depth walkthrough of how to modify the bytecode; so look forward to that. 🙂
