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**antisocialmunky** · 10-08-2009, 01:29

Can you mix up animations so some charge over head, some charge under hand. Maybe some others puts all their weight on their shields and some sort of jump up and crash down for maximum awesomeness.

**Tenebrous** · 10-08-2009, 04:12

Originally Posted by antisocialmunky

Can you mix up animations so some charge over head, some charge under hand. Maybe some others puts all their weight on their shields and some sort of jump up and crash down for maximum awesomeness.

Like Troy much?

**Tux** · 10-08-2009, 09:22

Originally Posted by Tenebrous

Like Troy much?

And Lord of the rings, I guess.

**The General** · 10-08-2009, 10:06

Why not just render the animations for hoplites according to the ones in "300" while at it?

**antisocialmunky** · 10-08-2009, 13:23

Originally Posted by The General

Why not just render the animations for hoplites according to the ones in "300" while at it?

What about this part then?

Can you mix up animations so some charge over head, some charge under hand?

Its not much of a surprise if everyone charges underhand.

**The General** · 10-08-2009, 16:21

Originally Posted by antisocialmunky

Its not much of a surprise if everyone charges underhand.

Is it possible to control the likelihoods of animations, or is it a simple matter of 1/X, with X being the amount of possible animations for the action?

**-Praetor-** · 10-08-2009, 16:31

Originally Posted by antisocialmunky

Its not much of a surprise if everyone charges underhand.

We initially replaced the "charge_jump_attack", (because it's ahistorical and it's not a very good idea trying to jump with 30kg panoply on you and an aspis on your hand) with this, and since there's only another charge animation ("charge_attack"), the probability of using this animation against the other should have been 50/50.

But for some reason, the engine doesn't use it and just uses the "charge_attack" animation, which consists of an overhead thrust of the spear. We are still trying to solve this.

Originally Posted by The General

Is it possible to control the likelihoods of animations, or is it a simple matter of 1/X, with X being the amount of possible animations for the action?

I don't know if its possible to control the percentage of likelyhood, since my knowledge of the "descr_skeleton.txt" file isn't that deep, but I hope so. I would give this animation something like a 25% chance or so, but I don't know if that's feasible.

**Christianus** · 10-08-2009, 19:13

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Questions: (1) which one looks best http://2tu.us/w83 ? 
(2) and can you tell which one done with standard Java 
and which one is custom code?

Is there any difference? I get chinese marks and such.

**The General** · 10-08-2009, 19:43

Originally Posted by -Praetor-

I don't know if its possible to control the percentage of likelyhood, since my knowledge of the "descr_skeleton.txt" file isn't that deep, but I hope so. I would give this animation something like a 25% chance or so, but I don't know if that's feasible.

I'd prefer it to be a rather rare surprise attack with a low occurrence rate, for both the maximum "Wow!" factor and so that it really would be a surprise move.