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Here is what I've done so far. Feel free to experiment with it.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ ... /Scene.fbx

By the way, here's some progress with staffs:

https://gfycat.com/exaltedimpolitefinch

Thanks. Once I hone my animation coding skills on the animals, I'll see if I can pull these and get them going in the ambidexterity mod.

Here are inventory graphics for three of the longbows (steel, silver, elven) - specifically texture 234.

My plan is to leave a good portion of each bow as wood so that current 1st person animation still makes sense...
realakp - could you PM me the best way to share these with you?

Thank you so much, they will make a great addition to the whole bundle. I'll PM you with details.

New version is available at Nexus, including:

Longsword (FPP and Inventory)
Staff (FPP and Inventory)
Battle Axe (FPP and Inventory)
Bow (Inventory only) by @bearhead

https://www.nexusmods.com/daggerfallunity/mods/242

Any chance you render it in high res as well? When making new weapons like this axe, its about changing the output resolution?

l3lessed wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 3:55 pm The amount of time and work to create the number of unique frames needed for a completely new sprite for all weapons or even the overlapping blades is very high. Each weapon has 5 individual frames per attack animation; with 6 attack animations possible, that is 30 frames a weapon. that's hundreds of hand drawn frames. Probably not going to happen, unless there is an extremely bored, dedicated artist out there with tons of time and patience on his hand.

Couldn't you do it Starcraft style and animate them in 3D, then convert them to pixel art and do a quick pass to clean them up? I'd think you could semi-automate it in Blender and Photoshop.

I don't know how hard this is to mod, though. It worries me that it might require tons of extra code to make what seems to me like a minor change. I'd think it would just be a matter of practicality; it's very resource expensive for something most players wouldn't notice, and probably was impossible for a game in the 90s.

Couldn't you do it Starcraft style and animate them in 3D, then convert them to pixel art and do a quick pass to clean them up? I'd think you could semi-automate it in Blender and Photoshop.

I don't know how hard this is to mod, though. It worries me that it might require tons of extra code to make what seems to me like a minor change. I'd think it would just be a matter of practicality; it's very resource expensive for something most players wouldn't notice, and probably was impossible for a game in the 90s.

The artist can do it however they need. I'm no artist past basic paint.net and gimp use. If it is easier than it seems to create them, then the next step is coding on the script side.

There are two separate issues here:

The first is you would need to code a new fpsweapon script to render all the new weapon textures. The base script has no way to import whole new textures and animations. It can only replace the default ones. I technically have done this now, and I could update my mod to include custom weapon texture and animation sets. Some one can do it themselves too.

This leads to the second issue, well kind of issue. For it to be compatible with my weapon smoothing mod feature, it has to match classic ratios, sizes, and positions. For HD, it has to match the Dream textures. If it doesn't, it will lead to frame skipping and cut offs most likely.

New version available on Nexus.

Currently done:

Longsword (FPP and Inventory)
Claymore (Inventory only)
Staff (FPP and Inventory)
Battle Axe (FPP and Inventory)
Long Bow (Inventory only) by @bearhead
Short Bow (Inventory only) by @bearhead

King of Worms wrote: ↑Wed Oct 27, 2021 9:56 am Any chance you render it in high res as well? When making new weapons like this axe, its about changing the output resolution?

I'll rerender everything in hi res for you when I finish.

pepperjam wrote: ↑Fri Oct 29, 2021 9:22 pm Couldn't you do it Starcraft style and animate them in 3D, then convert them to pixel art and do a quick pass to clean them up? I'd think you could semi-automate it in Blender and Photoshop.

This is what I do everything is animated in 3D, then rendered and converted to sprites. I have automated the process as much as I can but it's still a lot of work.

Thank You, would be so cool to have it for users who run HD mods