Configuring Weapons/Armor skin/display

[Gold Bahamut]

Hi, I want to know how you would change the looks of the sword a footman is carrying or the armor he's wearing.

For example, a person can choose between two types of a footman: a longsword or a phalanx. The longsword will obviously have a longsword along with a medium-sized shield. The phalanx will instead have a spear with a very large shield. Both will be a configured figure of the footman.

Is changing such things called modelling? I just didn't know where to go to ask this...and if it is modelling, what software/programs are needed to do effective modelling?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Just_Spectating]

you would have to make a model with no armor of a footman then when the player picks the type, add the attachments you want to the footman.

 

[Gold Bahamut]

Ok, so is adding attachments and such modelling?

And thx for the help!

 

[Just_Spectating]

you attach the attachments in the editor

 

[Gold Bahamut]

ugh...I sound like a noob (maybe cause I am)

Where and how in the editor do you do attachments?

 

[gavdaman88]

Well you need to download the sword you want from the model archives, then attatch if via an item ability, so that when you pick up an item it has an ability with the target attatchments of 'hand,left/right'. These can be found in the unit, ability and item tabs of the world editor in the object editor (the symbol that looks like a knight helmet).

 

[Just_Spectating]

there is a special effect action, make the special effect the downloaded sword and attach to hand,right(or left, footmen usually attack with their left anyway)

 

[Chaos Overlord]

Can't you just attach it to "weapon"? Thats where I always use to avoid the issues of getting hands wrong.

 

[Gold Bahamut]

Ok, that makes sense. I've got the attachment problem figured out now. How do you get to those model archives, so that I can configure how the weapons/armor looks?

 

[Need_O2]

dont you have magos'

 

[Just_Spectating]

magos is a warcraft model editing program in which you can change a units crap. i dont know if you can physically edit the unit (because i use vertex mody for that) but its useful at all levels.

 

[Gold Bahamut]

Thanks everyone for the help
So I download this and then check out the modelling tutorials?