new/altered siege skeletons ?

[Lord Adherbal]

is it possible to create a new skeleton for siege weapons, or atleast modify an existing one ?

I need to make some small changes to the RTW onager skeleton to turn it into an MTW style catapult, but I don't feel like spending a lot of time learning about skeletons and animations when it turns out to be impossible.

[Sundjata Keita]

No, you can't actually make a new different one. You can copy an existing one to make new animations though. And with the skeleton you should be able to attatch the different parts to any of the bones and make everything go where you want because as far as I can remember siege weapons don't have the skin modifier and you can't actually see the bones in game. So you should be able to make a new siege weapon without actually modifying the skeleton at all.

[PROMETHEUS]

You can just rescale them from what I know...

[Lord Adherbal]

And with the skeleton you should be able to attatch the different parts to any of the bones and make everything go where you want because as far as I can remember siege weapons don't have the skin modifier and you can't actually see the bones in game. So you should be able to make a new siege weapon without actually modifying the skeleton at all.

the attachment point of my catapult is much lower then that of the RTW version, so that doesn't work :(

[Sundjata Keita]

Why won't that work? You can attatch any object to any bone and you can move the bones anywhere, as long as the machine does not require any more bones. Forgive me if I am missing something here.

[Lord Adherbal]

moving bones doesn't work, atleast not when I tried. The length and position of bones is stored in the animation files (I think).