Porting Warband animations to original Mount&Blade

MrExpendable · Nov 3, 2011

Hm, it seems that the opinions on these animations are mixed. While I personally think they look alot better than the native ones, I feel that the TLD team could do a better job with more fitting animations made from scratch.

For example, I've always wanted to see Elven swordsmen in M&B using the down-upwards motion slash when using two-handed swords. Not sure if this is true to the lore, but at the beginning of the first LotR movie you could see Noldor swordsmen repelling an entire rank of orcs with this technique at Dagorlad.

Anyway, even though the Fire Arrow anims may not be the ideal replacement, I'm glad that they at least made some people happy.

Trueten · Nov 7, 2011

So, MrExpendable, will you update your animation mini-mod

due to the new TLD patch being released?

Crayon · Nov 7, 2011

THIS is exactly what I was searching for.

Bravo that man!

Banok · Nov 8, 2011

found something pretty bad with the pack, tested with just TLD no other mods.

when you are stabbing with spear from horseback theres no up/down animation when aiming it, its small but kind of a big deal its hard to aim your stabs with a lance have to kind of guess.. there is with native m&b animations, but native couch animation sucks.

so playing as a lancer really not sure what I prefer, left and right couching or aimable thrusts

MrExpendable · Nov 8, 2011

Banok said:
found something pretty bad with the pack, tested with just TLD no other mods.

when you are stabbing with spear from horseback theres no up/down animation when aiming it, its small but kind of a big deal its hard to aim your stabs with a lance have to kind of guess.. there is with native m&b animations, but native couch animation sucks.

so playing as a lancer really not sure what I prefer, left and right couching or aimable thrusts

To be honest, the lack of aiming was something I disliked about the animations as well. So if the majority of the people dislike this, I could just leave the new spear thrust animations out. I think that the native spear thrusts don't look that bad at all.

trueten said:
So, MrExpendable, will you update your animation mini-mod due to the new TLD patch being released?

Well, the current upload still seems to be compatible with the latest patch. The TLD team included a new actions.txt file, which is slightly bigger then the one used in the submod (50.3kb opposed to 50.4kb). When the decision on the spear thrust animations is made I'll add the animations to the latest actions.txt and upload the pack again.

So, should I leave the new spear-thust animations in for the next version of this submod? Or is it better to just leave them out and keep the native ones in for the sake of aiming your thrusts?

Trueten · Nov 8, 2011

leave them out and keep the native ones

Is it me, or TLD uses some alternative spear thrust animation? If that's so, than it should remain as it is IMHO.

Do not look here · Nov 8, 2011

trueten said:
leave them out and keep the native ones

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Is it me, or TLD uses some alternative spear thrust animation? If that's so, than it should remain as it is IMHO.

Yup, at least for Rohan Riders, didn't see it anywhere else.

Banok · Nov 9, 2011

@ above
yeah I noticed this, think its only for lances or rohan lances, and its a overhanded stab

MrExpendable said:
So, should I leave the new spear-thust animations in for the next version of this submod? Or is it better to just leave them out and keep the native ones in for the sake of aiming your thrusts?

native ones for aiming thrusts, pretty pretty please. i'll wait on making a lancer character until you do

infact I just did a comparison for native all the thrusts and I cant see much difference tbh, native ones look the same but you can aim them up/down on foot and horse. so if you could keep the native thrusts for 1h stab and 2h stab as well as polearm, we can aim those up and down on foot and horse too.

(1h native stab looks better imo, 2h is the same and polearm cant really tell. its ~~mostly~~ only just the swings in the pack which make the difference.)

MrExpendable · Nov 12, 2011

Alright, I've ported the animations to the latest version of TLD. I left out the trusting animations and kept the original ones.

Download link for MegaUpload is here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GD4UBATF
And here the link for the GameFront upload: http://www.gamefront.com/files/20982039/TLD+WBANIMS.zip

And here are some screenshots of what they actually look like:

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avien · Jan 9, 2012

Thanks for this

thick1988 · Jan 26, 2012

Oh thanks be to you! The old anims were the only thing keeping me from enjoying the great mod.

thecalaquendi · Jan 31, 2012

Does this replace the "sideways" bow animations for orcs?

fieldmarshall_adrien_xbow · Feb 3, 2012

thecalaquendi said:
Does this replace the "sideways" bow animations for orcs?

same question

and what animation exactly it adds ? just the melee (pole/1H/2h)? or ranged too (throw, short bow, longbow)?

Trueten · Feb 3, 2012

Only 1h and 2h. Spears and all missile weapon animation remained untouched.

fieldmarshall_adrien_xbow · Feb 3, 2012

thanks, downloading

edit: working perfectly !!!! best mod ever played with awesome animation now

Hinkl · Apr 3, 2012

Just thanks !
i was searching so long for this...
THANK YOU!

fflol · Apr 26, 2012

y'all these 2 links are screwed, can anyone upload this great little thing somewhere? thanks a lot

baz44331 · Sep 19, 2012

could you update this so we can use it with the new version of TLD please.

MrExpendable · Sep 20, 2012

baz44331 said:
could you update this so we can use it with the new version of TLD please.

The release of the latest patch inspired me to update this submod, so I'm going to look into it again. I'll upload a new version soon.

MrExpendable · Sep 20, 2012

Allright, I've updated it. Here's the link to the new version for TLD 3.2: http://mountandblade.nexusmods.com/mods/3797/

I forgot about how awesome TLD is. I really hope that the modding team is planning on porting the mod to Warband anywhere in the following 2 years.

Porting Warband animations to original Mount&Blade

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