WOT - Morningstar

Post by **Haplo** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 10:30 pm

Should we have one of these? It's just like a mace, except the metal ball part of the mace is on a chain connected to the stick...and the ball part is always round with points, like an actual star

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 10:35 pm

[img]http://www.play.net/images/weapons/morning_star.jpg[/img]

I made one but I dont know how to texture

Post by **Haplo** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 10:37 pm

yes, except that theres only one ball on a chain and its the size of a softball to the size of a humans head.

(or three balls on a chain the size of bladmands)

Well? · Post by **Well?** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 10:54 pm

Darn it, wrong picture..

Gimli the dwarf · Post by **Gimli the dwarf** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 10:54 pm

I think the general term you're looking for is "flail". They usually have 1 - 5 balls on the end of varying sizes.

I don't think these would work in Morrowind because of the animations required for the chain during attacks. However, someone did make a whip a while ago, but it still didn't have proper animations during attack animations.

Post by **Haplo** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 11:04 pm

no, im talking about a morningstar, not a flail, and what, bladmands picture was actually more accurate...

and flails consist of long pieces of leather or rope with no balls on the end, like 12 of them...but no balls...

Gimli the dwarf · Post by **Gimli the dwarf** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 11:27 pm

A morningstar is a flail, it's just a more specific term for a flail with only 1 spiked ball. If you don't believe me click this link

http://www.knightsedge.com/medieval-weapons/medieval-flail.htm

http://www.knightsedge.com/flails/medieval-flails-two-balls.htm

Eraser · Post by **Eraser** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 12:35 am

Gimli is right, its really an animation problem. Who are our expert animators here? We know we can somehow get a specific animation to play automatically, because of the bow animation. just how do we get an appropriate anim. for a blunt weapon without a script?

Post by **Haplo** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 2:31 am

I understand your point Gimli, but I mean they would not be called flails in the game, since they are a special type of flail.

Dakkan · Post by **Dakkan** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 4:36 pm

Anyone ever play castlevania I, II, III for the nintendo? they got flails in there.

For the record, not that I'm agreeing with the following comment, but Diablo 2 has Kalims Flail, and it has 3 balls, but I'm pretty sure a flail only has one.

Kothloth · Post by **Kothloth** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 5:17 pm

The animation problem is a large issue. I don't think we can make the animations needed. If it's even possible to anime weapons, I don't think it can be made to look good. Because of the chain, the only way to make it look good is if it uses somekind of a system that uses gravity parameters and such to animate it live, much like the "ragdoll" system you can see in some games nowadays. Thus I'm afraid something like this can't be made for Morrowind.