Ok, so I've come to make a post about this about 3 times now, but each time I thought "no, If I try this or that first, it may work.."

Well now that I have exhausted all routes I have come to make an actual post on this.

I have been trying to make more then 1 secondary weapon function with a melee unit, that uses a DIFFERENT animation, as there is FIRE, FIRE2 and CHARGE in the combo to be used.

After trying many many things I have come to the conclusion that the documentation was right.

// OffhandAnimation defines an animation that replaces weapon use
// animations. For example, replacing the FIRE, FIRE2 or CHARGE
// animations with our own animations when a character has
// this lightsaber equipped means that, for example,
// we can replace the FIRE animation with a force-using
// animation, that the weapon will then play instead of
// rifle firing. FIRE and FIRE2 are the 2 animations a weapon
// can use – look at com_weap_inf_force_pull or _push for
// an example (the “FireAnim =” line).

// If you are replacing FIRE and FIRE2 or CHARGE, they MUST
// be replaced IN ORDER or FIRE will override everything else.

OffhandAnimation("stand_useforce", "FIRE")
{
Loop("FinalFrame");
AimType("Torso");
BlendInTime(0.15);
BlendOutTime(0.15);
}
OffhandAnimation("stand_useforce", "FIRE2");
OffhandAnimation("stand_useforce", "CHARGE");

So what is the proper order, is it 0,1,2 or 1,2,3, or does he mean the combo OffhandAnimations in order? Because this is how mine look, and Thrust is overriding everything currently.


OffhandAnimation("stand_useforce", "FIRE");
OffhandAnimation("stand_thrust");
//OffhandAnimation("stand_useforce", "CHARGE");
//{
// Loop("FinalFrame");
// AimType("Torso");
// BlendInTime(0.15);
// BlendOutTime(0.15);
//}

Now, for the weapons I'm using this with, to describe them I shall.

I have currently a Speed based areaeffectweapon, And a Stab areaeffectweapon, with Stun settings. both of these use stand_thrust, and it works because Thrust is overriding everything right now. Here is my lines in either for how they get the anim working:

Stab Speed My dilemma began when I tried to copy stab, but use a different animation. And it would use the thrust one instead. So I changed it from areaeffectweapon to cannon, in hopes of using the expanded animation options as Push has, to work with. But nomatter what I do it will either NOT play any animation, or use the same one that Stab uses. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong, or what I haven't done, or something? Anything would be helpful

The difference in the second attack, aside from being cannon stuff

Use some different type of animation, like bazooka, rifle, etc.

I tried changing the AnimationBank to rifle and it didnt play any animation, but I'm continueing to play around with it.

It can't be an offhand weapon and have a different animationbank at the same time. The OffhandWeapon = X line is used to determine whether the offhand animation (force, grenade, buff, whatever is assigned) is played.

This is my weapon, and it's just playing the anim of holding a rifle. I'd like to somehow pick another offhandanim from the combo. Thats what I was setting out to do here, at least.