Any plans

[kingman1337]

to add Banzai's terrific animations (bowstrings, decapitations, etc.) for the extra realism?

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...ghlight=banzai

[Jaketh]

he got perma banned lol

[sumskilz]

I like the bowstring animations though we haven’t implemented them. Maybe we will, but it’s not a high priority. There are a lot of animations I’d like to have but we don’t yet have an animator on the team.

Decapitations are kind of Hollywood because for a soldier to get his head chopped clean off at the neck he would have to not even be trying to guard himself the way anyone naturally would. Much more common would be having a forearm chopped off. There have has been a lot of skeletal studies on the effects of medieval weaponry. There is plenty of examples of heads being cleaved through, but as far as I know, the only evidence of decapitations (from melee weapons) are those that most likely happened after a soldier was already killed by another wound. It probably happened sometimes but it was certainly not common. It would be cool if we had more death animations though.

[Fire-dweller]

I like the bowstring animations though we haven’t implemented them. Maybe we will, but it’s not a high priority. There are a lot of animations I’d like to have but we don’t yet have an animator on the team.

Decapitations are kind of Hollywood because for a soldier to get his head chopped clean off at the neck he would have to not even be trying to guard himself the way anyone naturally would. Much more common would be having a forearm chopped off. There have has been a lot of skeletal studies on the effects of medieval weaponry. There is plenty of examples of heads being cleaved through, but as far as I know, the only evidence of decapitations (from melee weapons) are those that most likely happened after a soldier was already killed by another wound. It probably happened sometimes but it was certainly not common. It would be cool if we had more death animations though.

What about oil burns (no fire)?

[sumskilz]

What about oil burns (no fire)?

Maybe, I need to finish a lot of units before thinking about such details. It would be cool if we had someone on the team that could look into this stuff, but we don't really.