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Rapier Animations
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 11:50 pm
by Ambaryerno
Is it possible to replace all of the dramatic swings when fighting with a rapier so that they use the thrust animation instead? It's gotten kind of silly that I've NEVER seen my toon THRUST with her rapier, only ever making those big, broad, spinning swings.
Re: Rapier Animations
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 12:19 am
by metaquad4
Its possible, just not feasible without a large amount of effort. Entirely new animation sets would need to be designed, tested, redesigned, etc. As far as I'm aware, its not exactly a cakewalk and its a bit of a lengthy process. Not sure if we have any animators on deck for this kind of project.
Re: Rapier Animations
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 1:32 am
by Ambaryerno
There's already animations for thrusting attacks with one-handed weapons in the game, I see them on Lucia all the time (she uses short sword + shield). Wouldn't it just be possible to replace the cutting attacks by having it play that even if you don't have a shield in the off-hand?
Re: Rapier Animations
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 9:45 am
by metaquad4
I never used a short sword before, never caught that. I suppose that might be doable, yeah? I don't know exactly about implementing animations, I only know a bit about the design after watching a friend do it.
Should be doable, though.
Re: Rapier Animations
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 9:51 am
by Theodore01
Consider that animations change, depending if you use a weapon one handed or with both hands. So a rapierwielding hin/gnome uses the twohanded animation.
Re: Rapier Animations
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 10:37 am
by Ambaryerno
Theodore01 wrote:Consider that animations change, depending if you use a weapon one handed or with both hands. So a rapierwielding hin/gnome uses the twohanded animation.
My toon is human, so that's not an issue (though even 2H a rapier ought to be used for thrusting, like maybe with the spear animation).
Re: Rapier Animations
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 11:42 am
by Hoihe
Ambaryerno wrote:Theodore01 wrote:Consider that animations change, depending if you use a weapon one handed or with both hands. So a rapierwielding hin/gnome uses the twohanded animation.
My toon is human, so that's not an issue (though even 2H a rapier ought to be used for thrusting, like maybe with the spear animation).
2 handed thrusting sword:
http://www.kultofathena.com/product.asp?item=ALC04
Re: Rapier Animations
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 11:47 am
by Ambaryerno
Hoihe wrote:Ambaryerno wrote:Theodore01 wrote:Consider that animations change, depending if you use a weapon one handed or with both hands. So a rapierwielding hin/gnome uses the twohanded animation.
My toon is human, so that's not an issue (though even 2H a rapier ought to be used for thrusting, like maybe with the spear animation).
2 handed thrusting sword:
http://www.kultofathena.com/product.asp?item=ALC04
Yes, I know. It's called an estoc, which is effectively what a rapier wielded by a Halfling or Gnome would be.
My point is that 1H or 2H, rapiers should be set up to play a thrusting animation.
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 3:06 pm
by Atlas
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Re: Rapier Animations
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 10:54 am
by Ambaryerno
Atlas wrote:It would be great if there was a custom menu created where you could select the combat animation set for your character.
A fencing stance with thrusts and so forth could be one animation set you can choose for one handed weapons for instance, and two handed weapons would have their own animation sets to choose from as well.
A menu with different non-combat posture animation sets to choose from would be great as well.
That would be kind of cool, a way to give each character a distinctive fighting style if we had enough animations.
