[Bug] Strange Twist in Body When Swinging

[EasyCo506]

I just noticed something while doing the tutorial that I saw in Mount&Blade (although much less noticeable so far in Warband). Basically when you prepare a swing and move in a certain direction (holding a left swing, moving forward and right), will sometimes cause the body to twist at an odd angle. Sometimes it doesn't, and sometimes it only happens when you actually swing. In any case, it seems to be much more harder to cause than it was in Mount&Blade (in which it always happened when you moved at an angle while preparing a swing).

Sadly, I forgot to take a screenshot, but this one from Mount&Blade shows what I am talking about:



As you can see, this is not Warband, but this picture is mainly to show what I'm talking about. I can confirm that I have been able to do this in Warband as well (again, not as often).

 

[EasyCo506]

Sorry for the double post, but here is a screenshot from Warband which shows what I am talking about.



Again, I figured I'd post this, seeing as how I've never seen this problem so much as mentioned before (which makes me wonder if it can even be fixed).

On a slightly related note, I can see that a few hair styles clip into the body, such as this one (even when not moving).

 

[Barf]

the hair clipping into the body is something not worth fixing because it would require cloth simulation or adding extra bones to the head animating them for each existing animation (easily over 100 animations) and then skinning the hair/beards...the visual effect is minimal and using cloth simulations has its own problems.

The odd animation in the running is also tricky to solve but not unfixable
-its impossible to point your right shoulder forward while your hips are pointing to the right IRL, but we cant remove this because shooting/attacking forward while running to the right is required for game-play reasons.
-you could replace the run-right animation with a shuffle animation so the hips aren't displacing as far but then everyone shuffles left and right whether or not they are in a combat mode.

basically you need another set of walking animations for combat only which consists of shuffles, which afiak is not possible in regular m&b but if the developers so desire they could put the extra effort in and have something similar for warband.

 

[EasyCo506]

I figured it would take too much effort to fix it, which probably explains why it hasn't really been mentioned much.