Reply To: MAFIA II – melee weapons

My apologies for non constructive topic reply.

 

At risk of sounding too harsh – CAN WE PLEASE FINALLY STOP WITH THIS SILLINESS?

I made a few posts about melee weapons, their animations and overall our chances of bringing back melee weapons.

Posts are seeimgly ignored, because I did not backed them with nice YouTube videos, right?

 

Sigh, so…if Mafia1860 found anything new, then how did I managed to write post Post 1820, second paragraph? Ah yes, I forgot to add YouTube video, right? OK, so let’s fix it. Here is a nice eye candy video which tells us nothing about how to achieve what we want but looks pretty cool]aaa[/url]

 

And here’s one outrageous new discovery – Joe’s melee animations are those which have prefix “39-” in basic_anims2.sds. What a big surprise, given the fact Joe’s moveset is labeled as set 39 in animengine_groups and the fact this is known since summer 2010’s demo. Seriously, can we start massively celebrating because I claim to be the first one to mention it? Oh I forgot to add another eye candy YouTube video, now everybody will ignore the post. Wait wait, here you go:

 

 

 

OK, I hope the message is clear now. We need to move FORWARD if we want to have fully working melee weapons, not to stay at one place and glorificate everybody who can alter a few numbers in a HEXeditor. As I already wrote (post was ignored, no fancy YouTube video, I know): since melee weapons slots are disabed via engine and the only weapon slot which works for close combat is slot “Prazdne ruce”, there is the only way to have melee weapons back – LUA script and actor items. However, I am yet to discover how to add actor item to .sds structure. So far my knowledge is incomplete and all of my attempts are crashing down the game. But that means THIS is the issue we should be intensely investigating right now. Not “how to change a few numbers with HEXeditor”, but “How to add CrashObject entity to freeraid_main.sds file”.

 

Cheers, Andrashi

 

 

P.S.: I also found a way how to make A.I. enemies break away from grabs and with some other changes A.I. can even reverse grab you! But you know, no YouTube video, so feel free to ignore this PostScriptum.