The wild shield of the sacred band

**Vyktrius** · April 22, 2006, 02:35 AM

I've activated the greek sacred band (an unused unit found by Lusted) and the skin is quite cool. I gave it "fs_s1_hoplite" as a skeleton and that, I don't think, caused any problems. But there are a few wierd things going on. For one, their spears are shorter than usual. I didn't give them the phalanx ability so that they would attack overhand with a spear hafted half way. The other thing is that their shield flys all over the place while they are fighting. It tips into their legs while fighting and there is a delay between their bodies turn and the shields. Would anyone have any idea how to fix that, or even what the problem would be. If you can fix it that would be much appreciated.

EDIT: I've figured it out but I still don't know why. It was the skeleton. I'll check with the guy who made it.

**Lusted** · April 22, 2006, 05:25 AM

The unused sacred band model has the shield attacthed tot he hand, whilst for the new hoplite animation of sig1 it needs to be attatched tot the elbow to work best, otherwise you do get clipping issues. And yes the spear will be shorter if you disable phalanx mode as when you give the unit phalanx ability it uses a new spear seperate from the model.

**Vyktrius** · April 22, 2006, 06:05 AM

Well I know that without the phalanx mode they have shorter spears but the Greek Sacred Band has even shorter spears than that. While all the other hoplite units have spears that are about twice as long as they are tall, the GSB has a spear that is only a little longer than they are tall. But Why?