Custom Combat Animations

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Custom Combat Animations

Post by Pincushion » Thu Sep 24, 2020 1:04 am

I know that there's a number of custom animation HAKswhich, if added to Arelith, would greatly improve immersion. Not sure about how difficult it would be to add them to the server, I just thought I'd suggest it here so that we could get a developer's thoughts on adding them.

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Re: Custom Combat Animations

Post by Anatida » Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:28 pm

Custom animations are a nightmare, and we decided a long while back that we would not be adding them. This could change in the future if there are updates either to the base game or new haks that do not have as many issues.

Off the top of my head, we would have a problem with the following issues:
Custom height creatures
Custom weapon content
Custom clothing content

For each of those things you have to have an animation that works with each race, sex, phenotype, and horse mounted multiplied by the number of custom heights that are available.

For now this should be rejected.

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