studman0201 Posted June 5, 2004 Share Posted June 5, 2004 Ok I am going to try and explain this as simple as possible, though I am probably not good at explaining the tagging part. I suck at modelling, but I have unearthed very interesting information, to which I would like to see something by anyone. I was working on my npcMod, and I was refering to elements of the original npc's, I came across an npc, known as reborntrandoshan. Interestingly he weilded as a saber a "sabertrident". I thought a sweet there is a saber trident in the game, I fired up the game and alas it was not at all, but not becuase it is not possible but becuase the models and the saber ".sab" file was removed from the game before shipping.(I checked for the model and the saber file which both were nonexistant, a yoda hilt was also in but removed last minute) After that escapade I decided to look into what and how a new saber trident or any interesting multi-bladed saber could be constructed, here is what I found: "A note about blade tags: each blade will be drawn from it's corresponding tag's position and in the direction (negative X axis in ModView) of that tag. The naming of the tags must be as follows: "tag_blade1" for the first blade. I made the code fall back to "tag_flash" if it can't find the tag_blades so that the code will still work pre-JKA sabers, but we you should always use the new name. All following blades (if applicable) should be "tag_blade2", "tag_blade3", etc., to a maximum of 8 blades ("tag_blade8") " What the above says is that a saber hilt can be designed to contain anywhere from 0 to 8 blades protruding from the hilt. Also to create one with more blades than 1 you must tell the var numBlades in a saber file (.sab) how many blades there are. This leads me to believe a multi bladed saber may be possible. I hope someone makes a saber trident or any 3 or more bladed saber even if the hilt is not super stylish, just to test the theory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studman0201 Posted June 5, 2004 Author Share Posted June 5, 2004 Oh and recently I have been disecting the reborn's and I have found many interesting named lightsabers: sabersai saberStar2 saberBroad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keshire Posted June 5, 2004 Share Posted June 5, 2004 new to the community? jk3 hilts the mutlibladed sabers are possible but unbalancing. The various sabertypes aren't used at all as the code was never completed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studman0201 Posted June 5, 2004 Author Share Posted June 5, 2004 oh did not know everyone knew sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmos Jack Posted June 5, 2004 Share Posted June 5, 2004 I made one awhile back, but I have never skinned it. It is a little unbalanced he he... http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=80419 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studman0201 Posted June 5, 2004 Author Share Posted June 5, 2004 may I have said weapon please, if you still have it. Is perfectly designed, RAVEN should have made each blade after 2 do fractional damage, like 8-bladed saber does 1/8 damage per blade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmos Jack Posted June 6, 2004 Share Posted June 6, 2004 I got the idea from the Colosseum Mod for JK2. I extracted the characters out so I could use them in SPMP. One of them used a Trident so I thought it would be cool to have a Trident Lightsaber. I took that model and cut away all, but the fork and went from there. It was a few minute job and not a lot of effort. I just wanted to see if I could get it to work. Since that part of the model isn't mine and the guy that made the MOD would like an E-mail before using parts of his stuff. Give me a day or 2 to get around to it and I'll make one from scratch. I might even figure out how to skin it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studman0201 Posted June 6, 2004 Author Share Posted June 6, 2004 that would be cool, thanks alot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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