Crossbow to Bow animation problem

[Loutzi]

First of all, thx for all the great topics here, I found answers to almost anything I could image. Except for how to change the xbow animation to the bow animation.

I have the Crossbow of relentless strikes. (Or the chicken on a stick as some ppl call it.)
Now, this weapon is so buttugly, I really want to change it's model to a bow. Everything worked perfectly, using Glitchy, I changed my crossbow to a bow. The seath ID and everything is ok afaik.
But the animation itself is wrong.
For the crossbow animation, my character holds the weapon in it's right hand. But for the bow animation, it should hold the weapon in it's left hand. But that's where the problem is. It does the crossbowanimation, with a bow. So it's completely wrong.
I haven't found a decent answer for that problem on this forum.

Glitchy gave an answer in this topic (-> see first reply, can't post hyperlinks yet, need 3 posts for that)

It seems he found the answer to the problem, but how the hell do I acces those m2 files? I must be blind, cause I can't find how.

+rep for whomever helps me offcourse

No idea if it changes anything, but my char is a female Belf, changed to a male Orc.

[Loutzi]

Here is the topic in which glitchy replied and seems to have given an answer.

http://www.mmowned.com/forums/model-...ng-weapon.html

[deewekoms]

Is there a guide to change the [crossbow to bow] animation for any race you want step by step?

[Loutzi]

Nope, I haven't found any guide about how to change that animation. If I would've found it, I wouldn't have made this topic

[Loutzi]

I found a partial solution.

http://www.mmowned.com/forums/simple...ndary-bow.html

With this trick, the animation is around 70% ok. Your char doesn't use arrows, and your autoshot is completely screwed. But since most hunters use the SS macro, you hardly notice it.

Anyone an idea how to solve the last problems? (no arrows, and screwed up autoshot?)

[Randie]

How exactly is autoshot screwed up?

[[Soul Eater]]

Ehm didn't you need to change the animation of the (race).M2 ? Likewise said, export the night elf male model, and then via Glitchy MES you change the Xbow animation to Bow animation.

[Loutzi]

How do I export my model out of that MPQ file? I found the model with modelviewer. But I don't know how to export it.
(and there is no specific crossbow animation in modelviewer, there's a gun animation, a bow animation and a thrown weapon animation.)


The first shot of your autoshot animation is perfect, like it should be. But the second shot you shoot, just puts your bow in the wrong hand again, and your char starts doing the xbow animation again. Specials work perfectly though. (except that your char doesn't load an arrow in the bow)

[[Soul Eater]]

Download mywarcraftstudio

Open

Open mpq

Open common.mpq

Open character folder

Extract X-race model

Open glitchy

Click on animation tools

Import model

Then you can swap the animation

Save

Make a new mpq

Load mpq

Import the new model

Give it the correct tree path

save

done

[Loutzi]

Thx for the great reply
I gave you +3 rep

But I have one last problem, maybe someone else knows an answer.

What is the animation for a crossbow? I found the bow animation, the gun animation and the thrown weapon animation. But I can't find the xbow one

[Vespy]

gun and crossbow animations are similar...*very* similar

[Loutzi]

Thx a lot