Archery animations

[geala]

For me it would not be worth the effort to create even more animations. However the mentioned movement of the archer is a bit over the top in my opinion. When shooting it is not necessary to make it because you just open the fingers to release, at least I never have to compensate like this whatever style I shoot (three fingers, two fingers Greek or thumb. Maybe it depends on bow strength, I shoot a reconstructed horn and sinew bow of just 55 lbs). Change here would not be very high on my list nevertheless.

What makes me a bit more perplexed is however the slinger aninmation. I cannot imagine how to build speed with this technique. The arm is extended to the back, then they seem to rotate perpendicular to the direction of shooting, then they bring the arm to the fore and release. Strange. And very cruel to arm and hand I guess. I sling myself and am used to different styles but never practised this before. I also cannot connect it with the ancient images of slingers I've seen till now. Have you (maybe ancient) references for it, would be very interesting?

[Foot]

What makes me a bit more perplexed is however the slinger aninmation. I cannot imagine how to build speed with this technique. The arm is extended to the back, then they seem to rotate perpendicular to the direction of shooting, then they bring the arm to the fore and release. Strange. And very cruel to arm and hand I guess. I sling myself and am used to different styles but never practised this before. I also cannot connect it with the ancient images of slingers I've seen till now. Have you (maybe ancient) references for it, would be very interesting?

We have not made our own slinger animations. We simply reused RTW slinger animations for the timebeing. The work was hard enough getting a slinger into the game at all! But hopefully we'll see a change there as well in the future. However, once again, it isn't top priority for us at the moment.

Foot

[Tuuvi]

We do have different archer animations for different cultures.

I didn't know that, very cool

[antisocialmunky]

Does anyone know hwo exactly you shoot from elephant back? That always intrigued me.

[Cybvep]

Does anyone know hwo exactly you shoot from elephant back? That always intrigued me.

You ignite your fuse, stand back and watch the giant cannon fire.










It's vanilla MTW2 version

[geala]

We have not made our own slinger animations. We simply reused RTW slinger animations for the timebeing. The work was hard enough getting a slinger into the game at all! But hopefully we'll see a change there as well in the future. However, once again, it isn't top priority for us at the moment.

Foot

I understand. Sounds very reasonable. I'm much obliged that you implemented my beloved weapon into EB II and will keep my mouth shut.

Does anyone know hwo exactly you shoot from elephant back? That always intrigued me.

What exactly do you mean? You stand in the tower and shoot or throw. If a tower was not used and someone was on the back (a method more often seen in India or Southeast-Asia), he normally knelt or sit with the spine beneath his legs, sometimes with the legs or feet put under a rope to prevent falling down when sudden moves occured.