Acrobatic Move: Butterfly???

[Valdarious]

Dont forget about the BOTH_ARIAL_LEFT and RIGHT. Those look cool as hell also.

[OttoOC]

I received an e-mail earlier today from someone who said he was messing around with the code and found a way to bind certain animations to certain keys. Aside from the butterfly, he said he could also feign death (like in TFC) and do cart wheels at will.

 

When we get the info (assuming Raven doesn't plan on patching this issue) - we'll release it on the site.

 

Am I the only one that thinks this is a bad idea?

[Wes Janson SMR]

For Single Player, no. For Multiplayer, yes.

 

Feigning Death was only available to the Spy Class in Team Fortress Classic. JK2 has no "classes". And since not everyone will have the ability to use these commands, it'll make things way off-balance.

 

All the more reason to get on those servers and kick some bootay.

[SpanRah]

i know what move he means, its not the jumping forward fly type anim, despite that maybe being called the butterfly.

Neway, i dont know how to do it, but me and my mates do it by accident quite alot when dueling...

I know it is possible in light stance, but thats not saying its exclusive to light.

I also rememebr i was walking backwards at the time, and pressed jump, but trying that now doesnt seem to recreate it, so there must be a third button to press

[LessThanJake]

Seomthing like a spin thing? If you go to gamefaqs.com they have a small faq which include some moves(only one which I've noticed is slightly wrong) and they mention:

 

Quick Get Up

If you fall over, Tap jump a million times to Super-get up, if you have enough force,

sometimes your character will get up in a cool fashion, such as spinning around matrix

style, or something.

[Wes Janson SMR]

That's a good point. Maybe some of us might have confused one of the "getting up" animations over the Darth Maul pattented Butterfly flip.

 

Possible, but not too likely. ;-)

[murdoc]

"Forward attack jump" whit the enemy inn front of u. if it's hits ur enemy die.

[Downfaul]

NO, you poopoo head (potty mouth, potty mouth!). we've already established that is not the move we're talking about.

That move is the very first move that Obi Wan does to Maul in the movie. Jump over and slice from directly above.

Not what we're discussing.

 

You see a lot of cartwheels in SP when you visit the Yavin Jedi academy's duel room from above. Just sit and watch, you'll see it.

 

I havn't seen the butterfly yet.

 

Somebody has to get an in game pic of that in action.

[Crease]

No, I've reviewed the getting up animations and it isn't one of those.

[Valdarious]

Ok to put some of these questions to test I made an animated gif with the help of the modview. I used the Kyle model so you can see that I just didnt somehow record a reborn or something doing this. I made it small since I dont have anything but geocities to show this off. If anyone wants a larger version I suppose I can make one but I dont see the point, I know this is small but it does the job. This is the Butterfly(maul spin kick at the begining of the duel of the fates)

If you run into the problem of geocities giving you that stupid error just open a new browser (ctrl+n) and paste this in. http://www.geocities.com/Valdarious/jedi.gif

[Lord Nodata]

kewl, we're on the same wavelength here! Ok I started another thread where I"m going to post ALL of the special flips and stuff in gif format. Your butterfly gif worked, but it's a bit too fast to show off the animation. If you guys want, check out my thread here...

 

http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42556

 

That shows off the move as well, a bit slower.

[Wes Janson SMR]

Yes.... That, and the cartwheel.

 

I just don't understand why people keep confusing the flip-stab-down Medium Stance Special with the freakin' "Butterfly".

 

Anyway...

 

BUMP

[__OzBoRnE__]

From all the above posts that I've read, the elusive 'butterfly' is the move continually exhibited by the NPC Tavion. I notice her doing it all the time; so find a big room, spawn Luke then her, and watch them fight. They both do the move from time to time: it's something of an escape move, from what I've seen, rather than an attacking move though.

[Lost Welshman]

i havnt seen this move being performed in mp but nearly all npc jedi do it in SP it would be so sweet to do this move has ne1 tried stuff like +BOTH_BUTTERFLY_LEFT or +BOTH_BUTTERFLY_RIGHT in the console

try it see wot appns

[Valdarious]

Yeah I have tried alot of things. I even tried to find some hidden commands or normal ones like /animation, /sequence, I have looked through all kinds of commands in the q3engine in general to maybe get some tips but I havent found anything yet.

[Wes Janson SMR]

These are animations, not input commands. But anyway, I'm at work. ;-)

[Lost Welshman]

has ne1 tried to oh say EMAIL RAVEN TO ASKm i rekon you can do the cartwhell and butterfly because otherwise you would be able 2 do the two other force jumps, u kno the 1s where you shoot 30ft forward and the other 1 where you can jump alot higher, i have only seen AI characters doin this

[Wes Janson SMR]

Learn to type. That's all I can say. ;-)

[toolboi]

Ok, I want a firm count: Who here has seen some one ONLINE do this or has done it them selves?

 

I could see this being there due to the fact that theres one animation loop for every character.

[dillinger]

I recall doing this move, the first time I played multiplayer, to my friend in lightsaber duel mode. It is the butterfly move as seen in the other thread with the animated gif. I was the Trandoshen model. I have no idea how i did it though, just button mashing since i didn't know anything about the game.

[murdoc]

This is in the manual:

//

Filp Forward And attack Downward

command: Forward +Attack +jump

Conditions: Enemy must be directly in front of you

Lightsaber Combat Style: medium only

 

A good evasive manoeuvre combaind whit a devastating attack from above. Execute this move when the enemy is directly in front of u and u are using medium CbS. You vill flip up over your enemys

head and attack downward as you pass over him. it's a good move to use if you're surrounded by enemies and want to get out.

//end

 

this is not the spin jump (Forward +jump +attack)

but (Forward +attack +jump)

 

it's in the manual under spesial moves ;-)

[Aiee]

That's overhead jump and downward stab. Not the one they're after.

 

If you look in the model viewer, you will see animations for overhead jump with downward swing, overhead jump with downward stab, windmill left, windmill right, butterfly left, butterfly right (a really neat pod_escape_2) among other animations. they are not interested in the saber attack moves, but rather, in ways to trigger the evasive/showoff animations.

[MankaCat]

I'm disgusted how the butterfly kick is suddenly 'darth maul-patented'

[Aiee]

Manka -- People are using Darth Maul as an example of a butterfly kick, assuming that people on a star-wars related forum has seen the saber fight in episode 1. Unfortunately, very few people bother to do even a minimum of research before posting, hence the 120 or so incidents so far where someone has called the overhead sweep/overhead stab a cartwheel or butterfly kick.

 

Look, people, Lord Nodata went through the trouble of making animated gifs, showing the exact animations that this thread is about. Go and compare them with your ingame animations. Go look before posting a reply saying you've found it:

 

http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42556

[MankaCat]

Originally posted by Wes Janson SMR

That's a good point. Maybe some of us might have confused one of the "getting up" animations over the Darth Maul pattented Butterfly flip.

 

Possible, but not too likely. ;-)

 

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Aiee needs the custom title 'Voice of Reason'

 

Edit:

And sorry for over-reacting. I am a wushu student and see butterfly kicks all the time. I irrationally assumed everyone should know what I know. And we all know that won't likely happen any time soon