Sword textures and animations - need help

[muffinhead]

Im having two different problems, one with textures/animations and one with scripting. im usually ok with scripting but i suck at textures and animations, and im having a problem with both right now, the bigger problem being the textures.

I created my own unit similar to Ferguson Riflemen. Same rifle, different stats, overall same looks. What i want to do is give them a sword/sabre as a melee weapon, but i what to keep their original rifle loading animation (it goes faster, i set the reload time to 1: the battalion sounds like a machine gun is going off). i found out when playing with the pack file manager, under the "Animation Table" column in the "units_stats_land" file that "man_musket_sabre" allows them to shoot like a musket (and reload) and fight melee with a sabre, where as "man_rifle" lets them shoot/reload like the rifle, but melee is always with the rifle butt. I tried "man_rifle_sabre" but trust me it doesnt work.

This is where the textures and animations issue comes in. Would it be possible to make an animation so i can use "man_rifle_sabre"? Also the texture problem is that when i used the musket animation, it worked (they fought with sabres) but they were invisible.

I want to apologize for the rather lengthy post and if someone helps me, please be patient and speak in laymans terms because like i said, i suck with textures and animations.

[erasmus777]

Im having two different problems, one with textures/animations and one with scripting. im usually ok with scripting but i suck at textures and animations, and im having a problem with both right now, the bigger problem being the textures.

I created my own unit similar to Ferguson Riflemen. Same rifle, different stats, overall same looks. What i want to do is give them a sword/sabre as a melee weapon, but i what to keep their original rifle loading animation (it goes faster, i set the reload time to 1: the battalion sounds like a machine gun is going off). i found out when playing with the pack file manager, under the "Animation Table" column in the "units_stats_land" file that "man_musket_sabre" allows them to shoot like a musket (and reload) and fight melee with a sabre, where as "man_rifle" lets them shoot/reload like the rifle, but melee is always with the rifle butt. I tried "man_rifle_sabre" but trust me it doesnt work.

This is where the textures and animations issue comes in. Would it be possible to make an animation so i can use "man_rifle_sabre"? Also the texture problem is that when i used the musket animation, it worked (they fought with sabres) but they were invisible.

I want to apologize for the rather lengthy post and if someone helps me, please be patient and speak in laymans terms because like i said, i suck with textures and animations.

Copy and paste this into your animation_tables.txt:

animation_table man_rifle_sabre
{
skeleton_type man

fragment man_common_fragment
fragment musket_death_fragment default_equipment_display = primary_weapon, ambient
fragment climb_fragment default_equipment_display = primary_weapon, ambient
fragment musket_sabre_fragment default_equipment_display = primary_weapon, ambient
fragment Rifle_fragment default_equipment_display = primary_weapon, ambient
}

[muffinhead]

erasmus: i tried that and when i try to start up the game it gives me the unrecognized animation error. I put that in the same format but is there some correlation between where you place the lines, how many times you press "tab", etc.?

[erasmus777]

erasmus: i tried that and when i try to start up the game it gives me the unrecognized animation error. I put that in the same format but is there some correlation between where you place the lines, how many times you press "tab", etc.?

I don't know. Ideally there should be a tab between the elements like so:

fragment[tab]musket_death_fragment[tab]default_equipment_display = primary_weapon, ambient

but I don't know that it makes a difference. Try using the table I've attached and see if it works.

[muffinhead]

sorry erasmus, i must have been an idiot. i copied the text you had in your file and it worked, so i was a moron and did have a spelling error. again, sorry.

ok so im halfway done and now i am interested in learning animations so i am gonna have to play around with them. now i need to add the texture of the sword. they still attack with sabres, but they are invisible