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Ok, so I was wondering how you add a wookie dread to the end of a lightsaber. Do I use offhand geometry or what?

you might use the attached mesh function in the odf. I am no expert on this though.

Try the same thing as what attaches it to the wookiee's head, but give it the hard point of hp_fire instead of bone_head.

Here is my odf:

Well, if it does work, that'll be how it would work. If it doesn't, then at least we know it won't.

I don't believe weapons like addons, effects maybe yes, but addons and attached odfs I don't think so. I know they don't take an attached light odf.

Agreed. I thought it sortof a longshot too.

So is this even possible or am I doing something wrong. That odf isn't working, it gives be a handle and that's it.

I'd say it's 99.999999% safe to say it's not possible. On the slim chance that it would have been it was, that odf would be about the only way to do it.

Couldnt it be possibly to add it like Frag Me's light on the gun he added? Its a stretch, but it may work. Or, Ive never working with wookie dreads, but maybe just change the saber msh to a wookie dread msh?

Could someone physically attach it in XSI?

Grev wrote:Couldnt it be possibly to add it like Frag Me's light on the gun he added? Its a stretch, but it may work. Or, Ive never working with wookie dreads, but maybe just change the saber msh to a wookie dread msh?

The light on the gun is part of the model msh. It was a cone with transparancy and vertex coloring. The other light effect was actually the ordanance and it was an effect not a addon.

I see this becoming a 'grappling hook' thread. Basically, I'm gonna say this, and I'd say most veteran modders will probably agree:

If it can't be done easily it either 1) can't be done at all -or- 2) is not worth the pain and suffering needed to get it to work.

In this case, chalk it up to #1. At best, (which is still 99.95% unlikely) you'd get a half-@@@@ed version of it, which isn't worth it.

Darn.

Yah, Tean's right. It's like giving Greivous a new skeleton, it might be possible (through XSI), but it would be a real pain.

SBF_Dann_Boeing wrote:Could someone physically attach it in XSI?

I'll try that. It shouldn't take that long. I'll report back with the results later

SBF_Dann_Boeing wrote:Could someone physically attach it in XSI?

Does Repsharpshooter's Mesh Importer import tentacles?
I don't think so, but if so, it might be possible

Yes!!! I think I got it. Ok first make lightsaber in XSI. Set up the bones on the part that you want to be the whip. Then add a dummy root to the saber like you would an addon mesh. Get it exported. Put it ingame as an animated addon. Then add a saber. (luke's for instance) this is the real weapon. Mess with the width and height of the saber until it is a little larger than the full arc of the addon mesh. Copy over the trail and light stuff from a wampa odf so that the real saber is invisible. This should make it seem like a whip. I did a very simple test of this, it worked. I'm make a better more detailed one later.

Are you going to release it?

I definately will, once its perfect.