Hello there GT, I have an issue that I had once before but being generally ignored my question was unanswered for quite some time, and I have been unable to figure it out since and am absolutely clueless on the subject, so I ask once again. How would I go about making a melee weapon where the player whacks the enemy with the butt of the rifle, and the msh changes depending on the current primary weapon, similar to the one in MetalcoreRancors zombie beta.

Any help appreciated.

its done through a .combo file as your secondary weapon. first you should go find an animationfor it though, or you wont get anywhere.

myers73 wrote:first you should go find an animation for it though, or you wont get anywhere.

I know the exact anims I will use for this purpose, Darthmauls first cut for rifles, and Sidious' cut from above.

myers73 wrote:its done through a .combo file as your secondary weapon.

Care to explain how this would be used? I thought it would just use replaced secondary weapon anims.

if you modify force push to use the range and damage you want, you can rename the anims to "rc_rifle_stand_shoot_secondary_full" for example, where rc is the new anim set name.

also, you can use different ones for rifle, pistol, bazooka, and tool. and probably stand and crouch.

Borrow and edit the melee weapon from the BFX assets.

This is by no means an invention of my own. I was inspired to make such a weapon from Maveritchell, and it is simply a replacement of secondary fire anims, to be a melee attack move. It is a short range invisible ordnance set up with class type cannon, and emmitterordnance as the ord.

The chainsaw user uses the same premise.

Well I got my melee weapon setup and working, but the anims is where I am confused. How would I go about replacing them, and will it override my regular grenades anims?

Darthducks anim assets often have tuts for creating anim sets. If you name it the way i did, it replaces the drop item, not grenade throw anim

The "drop item" anims is human_x_stand_shoot_secondary.msh by default, where x is rifle, bazooka, pistol, or tool. So just rename your replacement animation to y_x_stand_shoot_secondary.msh (y being the name you chose to call your new animation set).

Ok, well I've managed to munge my anims now, but it still isn't working, I have basepose.msh and rus_stand_shoot_secondary.msh in my rus anim folder, it munged properly and I have in the munged folder of my sides; rus.anims, rus.zaabin and rus.zafbin. Lastly my odf: looks like this: If my error log is needed I'll go ahead and get it.

AnimationName goes in the unit odf.