Oblivion + Mount & Blade combat

[Captain_Octavius]

Thanks, are you commenting on the video or did you try it yourself?

 

[Chechen!]

Looks a bit robotic but its still amazing that you pulled it off.

 

[Captain_Octavius]

I'm hardly a professional animator... In fact, those are the first serious animations I made.

 

[Chechen!]

I read, thats why its so amazing.

 

[Captain_Octavius]

Thanks. 

In Skyrim there will be a new animation system, Havok Behaviour. It should allow me to do far better blends between animations, and I'm going to try to put a lot more supportive body movement in the attacks in the new animations for Skyrim. Hopefully that will reduce the robotic feel significantly, Skyrim's animations look quite good so I have a standard to live up to.

 

[Noctambulant666]

Holy ****ing **** dude, an open world M&B? This is amazing!

 

[Captain_Octavius]

Did anyone try the demo? I'd like to have some feedback from veteran Mount & Blade players.

 

[Suspicous Pilgrim]

How will we block Mudcrab attacks? I need to watch out for those.

 

[Captain_Octavius]

A special block animation will be made for creatures that are relatively low by the ground.

 

[Suspicous Pilgrim]

What about wraiths and zombies, not to mention the daedra?

 

[Scully]

Oh my, how did I not know about this before. I hope you'll work to bring this to skyrim.

 

[Scully]

Oh my, how did I not know about this before. I hope you'll work to bring this to skyrim.

'Tis time. 

 

[Schemer]

Confirmed, the Creation Kit (Skyrim version of the Construction Set) will even be shipped with the game, which wasn't the case with Oblivion. Todd Howard repeated several times that they realize the modability of their games is one of the reasons why they are so successful, and that they can't wait to see what kind of mods will be made for Skyrim.

Oblivion's CS wasn't released with the game, it was released a little while before the game.

Modding community doesn't help TES that much (surprisingly). If you compare the amount of Nexus users to the amount of sales for Oblivion on the 360, PS3, and PC, it's only a very tiny fraction that uses mods. DragoonWraith (the modder who oversees the CS wiki) did an in-depth look at this.

Skyrim's CK apparently has a new scripting language (that still isn't an actual scripting language), so hopefully you enjoy it more than Oblivion's. Combined with SKSE, it will probably be a lot more complex. The interface is extremely similar to the GECK/Morrowind CS/Oblivion CS and it looks easy enough to adjust to.

 

[WilySly]

For the love of God, PLEASE BRING THIS TO SKYRIM.

 

[Legolan]

For the love of god, I have went over half this thread and still dont know if he is for real

 

[WuTaNiSt]

For the love of god, I have went over half this thread and still dont know if he is for real

Perhaps reading the other half would help?

 

[DanAngleland]

I'm sure he is for real, I believe there is a youtube video link early in the thread. I remember following the thread when it was first made and there was little doubt after a few of Octavius' posts.

 

[Scully]

Would love an update from Octavius.

 

[davidhummer.1]

So...does anyone know what has happened to this mod?  The reworked combat?  Last I heard, they were lawyering up(as per the C&D letter thread).  But, while the LoTR setting is interesting, I am really only excited for the M&B-style combat.  Anyone know if that is still in the works?

 

[froggyluv]

Man how did I miss this? I'd cream for directional combat in Skyrim! It'd be a shame if this never got released  because it was tied into the Merp mod legal travesty. Pretty impressive that this guy did this seemingly so effortlessly. I once contacted the author of Skyrim's arguably top combat mod -Duke Patrick's combat -and he stated that nothing remotely directional could ever be added to these games