Attach/Attack varying Hero Models

[Titanhex]

Alright, so I'm aware of these high-functioning models that have both bow and melee animations and a lot of things can easily be attached to them. Obviously they're used in many oRPGs and in Steel's DnD.

I wanted to either know how to adapt other models to do it as a novice model tweaker or figure out where to get my hands on some of these models.

Thanks much :3

 

[HeroSlayer]

I think you can use the demon hunter as a reference. you see, the demon hunter is a melee unit, but when it casts his ultimate skill, he turns into a ranged unit.
as for the animations, you would need to download the villager with 255 animations from the models section and rename the ranged attacks and melee attacks to the proper names

 

[Titanhex]

Isn't there simpler ways than forcing a unit to use a skill?

I know some orb affects can add range, or something like that.

But how do I force the unit to use a ranged animation?

 

[HeroSlayer]

But how do I force the unit to use a ranged animation?

Add an animation tag to the unit using triggers
in this case it is : alternate

 

[eubz]

What do you mean, you want a melee unit to ranged unit? If a unit has two animations, say he got ranged and melee, you can assign one to be an alternate animation. It would be "attack" for melee attack and "attack alternate" for ranged attack. attack alternate animation can be accessed by creating a trigger swapping both animations.

 

[Adiktuz]

Well the very first requirement is that the model has animations for both melee and ranged weaponry... then its a pretty simple method of using animation tags...

if you wish to edit models to have both melee and ranged animation, well I think you need knowledge of animating models...