Weapon animations

[Jamould]

Hi there, I was wondering if it's possible to give a specific weapon unique animations.

So, say for example I have a rapier in game, and give it fencing animations, it will have these animations, but all other 1 handed weapons will have the default animations

 

[Jamould]

Any ideas?

 

[Othurin]

Maybe remove say, throwings weapons or crossbows and make the rapier a thing of its own in Throwing Weapon's spot I dunno bout modding just a random guess that might work

 

[Jamould]

Thanks good thinking, I'll give it a shot, but if anyone knows of any more direct ways of doing this, let me know

 

[Caba`drin]

Something along those lines is pretty much your only option unless you want a rapier to be a player-only weapon and to use mission template triggers to capture key uses and play animations-on-demand for the rapier, overriding the animations that should be used. Weapon specific animations aren't possible with the engine, so you'll either need a hacky workaround like above or to abandon the notion.

Please use the stickied Q&A thread for questions of this nature in the future.

 

[Arvenski]

Would it be possible to make a new weapon class,with its own animations,for the rapiers?

 

[Caba`drin]

No. Weapon types are hardcoded. The options are as above.

 

[Jamould]

Something along those lines is pretty much your only option unless you want a rapier to be a player-only weapon and to use mission template triggers to capture key uses and play animations-on-demand for the rapier, overriding the animations that should be used. Weapon specific animations aren't possible with the engine, so you'll either need a hacky workaround like above or to abandon the notion.

Please use the stickied Q&A thread for questions of this nature in the future.

What do you mean by "mission template triggers"? Like using triggers on a specific weapon, to override the default animations and use specified ones instead? Therefore giving that weapon "unique animations"?

 

[Lumos]

What do you mean by "mission template triggers"? Like using triggers on a specific weapon, to override the default animations and use specified ones instead? Therefore giving that weapon "unique animations"?

He means using triggers for specific missions in module_mission_templates.py, and in these triggers you assign custom animations based on the player's action.

 

[Jamould]

I see. Cheers for the explanation