Dual Sword animations

**kooz123** · July 08, 2009, 01:07 PM

Is it possible to have animations that utilise both of a units swords (if the unit is a dual-weilding unit)? dale has dale man-at-arms and harad i think has some sort of unit and they are both dual weilding but they only use one of them.

**King Canute** · July 08, 2009, 01:12 PM

maybe you could manipulate how they use shield?

**kooz123** · July 08, 2009, 01:17 PM

i dont kno how to do anything related to modding. i was just asking the devs of the mod if it could be done and if so maybe implemented in the next patch.

**axnsan** · July 08, 2009, 01:18 PM

They use the second one as a "shield" as they use the regular swordsman annimation. I'm pretty sure M2TW doesn't have any dual-wielder animation, so the only way owuld be creating one.

**Jean=A=Luc** · July 08, 2009, 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by kooz123

Is it possible to have animations that utilise both of a units swords.

It's possible if you know how to create new animations since, as has been mentioned, m2:tw has no dual-wield animations of its own. Think of the other sword as being used for "blocking"/parrying, I believe that's how DG conceptualized it anyway.

**kooz123** · July 08, 2009, 01:28 PM

hhmm, you'd think that as a dual-weilding unit they would be more offensively minded and thus use both of their swords offensively. this is what i would like to see anyway.

**axnsan** · July 08, 2009, 01:29 PM

Like has been said, that would require a new annimation to be created.

**kooz123** · July 08, 2009, 01:39 PM

would it be hard to create a new animation? cuz i would like to see it in the next patch or update.

**axnsan** · July 08, 2009, 01:41 PM

Actually it would, because the unit would need annimations for everything (running, idleing, fighting, blocking, dying blah blah..) though probably many of those could be copied from other units. But there are other things more important than making an annimation that is going to be used by what - 2 units?

**kooz123** · July 08, 2009, 01:48 PM

sorry, just an idea.

**Lordinquisitor** · July 08, 2009, 02:03 PM

And besides, i think the animations used now are already good looking enough.

**kooz123** · July 08, 2009, 06:36 PM

ok, i didnt want to open up a new thread to ask another question so ill just ask it here. how do u request assistance? like in a battle. cuz a couple times ive had allies request my assistance for a battle and i was wondering if i could ask it from them too.

**Haldir** · July 08, 2009, 06:44 PM

I think they come into battle automatically if they are at war with the person you are going to fight and they are close enough to them.

**kooz123** · July 08, 2009, 06:50 PM

yeah i kno that. but i wasnt even close when they called for my assistance. it went like this... i ended my turn and when the high elves turn came around i got this pop-up that asked me if i wanted to join the battle. i was wondering if i could do that same thing. it would be awsome.

**Haldir** · July 08, 2009, 06:54 PM

Well, you can send a diplomat to them to ask for help against other factions but that's not so "spur-of-the-moment".

**kooz123** · July 08, 2009, 06:58 PM

this was spur of the moment. hmmm, ill have to play around a little. it would really be helpful to ask for that full dwarven stack when my dale army goes up against OOTMM.