spearmen hold spear the wrong way

[Ahlerich]

i have a funny problem.
i put some of my favorite units together for my favorite faction and i used rtr skins for my spearmen.
now the rtw spearman throw spears be4 they charge but my spearmen dont do that (and they r not supposed to) but the problem is my spearman now hold the spear the other way around as if they r going to throw it and in melee because of that they fight with the side without a pike.
well basically they just hold the spears the wrong way(upside down)
it there a way to fix that? and how?

help plz

[Flogger]

It might help if you post a picture of the problem...

[Ahlerich]

the red guys on the left,its hard to see but if u look closely u see that they attack the enemy with the blunt side of the spear

what would u do to fix it?

[Dromikaites]

Could you post the relevant part of export_descr_unit.txt and descr_model_battle for that unit?

[Red Harvest]

This is nothing surprising and is working the way it is supposed to from what I understand. The primary use of the spear in that model is a javelin (precursor weapon) for the model you used (RTR's). So you have now made spear primary. When you do that the spear's position is reversed, but the model/skin link has not. The same sort of problem happens if you try to make a regular pila/sword model into a pila/spear unit. Either the spear or the pila is reversed (I can't recall which, but I have done this sort of test.) My understanding is that this is not too hard to edit in 3dsmax. However, I don't know how to do that.

Perhaps someone with some experience doing this will explain and correct any errors in what I've posted.

[tFighterPilot]

Yes, you're completely right. The reason is that the hand is the other way when throwing a pilla and holding a sword\spear. You can see it with your own hand.

[Ahlerich]

ya thats kinda what i assumend. so basically that means without editing skin/model i cant use this unit as a melee only unit, right?

i guess i just wont use it then sence i dont have 3d max and now experience with that ..i just want to collect my favorit units of all major mods i played in one game.. so i gotta drop those guys then..

well thanx 4 the info