Something to Hold You Over for MAA

Spirrwell

Hello to all you MAA enthusiasts. How would you like to play as the MAA? Haha, you can't. But you can however use his weapons such as the halberd and crossbow because the models were released in the PVKII 2.5 update.

It's simple, turn the Archer's crossbow into the MAA's crossbow and turn the Berserker's bigaxe into a halberd!

Don't believe me? Here:



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How does one do this you may ask? Well, you have to modify the weapon script for the bigaxe and crossbow and put it in your scripts folder. This however will crash if you go onto another server that is not running this script so this is for personal testing only.

And here are those scripts: http://www.mediafire.com/download/mjgn3h68az3fuhb/scripts.zip

Enjoy! There seems to be other weapons as well, however I haven't gotten to them yet. The crossbow is perfect but the halberd is missing draw and holster animations.

bERt0r

Hmmmm, a viking swearing in french. I think we are on to something here...

Spirrwell

Well, we don't have the sounds to the MAA, just the weapon models. However in the live streams it would be possible to take whatever the MAA says, record it, and add it in, but that would be a tremendous time consuming process. I'll work on getting the mace buckler working next.

But again, I would like to mention that these scripts do not work and will crash the game while on a server that is not running them. And if a server is running them and you don't have the script the game will crash. It seems to happen when changing the playermodel\viewmodel. If anybody has a better way to do this, be my guest because I'm very interested in it myself.

ThatOneBox

so your jsut swapping weapon models....so they don't actually have the same and speed or anythign...eh it doesn't seem worth it if it's not the actual weapon, jsut a model swap. still neat for pointing it out though i guess.

Spirrwell

Actually with these scripts it does have the original damage\speed. I made sure.

ThatOneBox

Spirrwell wrote:

Actually with these scripts it does have the original damage\speed. I made sure.

by original do you mean the halberd has halberd reach, damage and speed? same with the arbelast? or do you mean it still has the same damage reach and speed as the great axe, even though it looks like halberd.

Spirrwell

Boxxu1337 wrote:

by original do you mean the halberd has halberd reach, damage and speed? same with the arbelast? or do you mean it still has the same damage reach and speed as the great axe, even though it looks like halberd.

It has the same damage and speed as far as I know. I mean obviously there's no special, but the weapon itself works fine. You could bind it to other weapons and it would use that weapon's special, but the damage, speed and whatnot would be the same. There's variables like weight or the type of melee weapon such as if it's a big, medium, or small weapon, so I made it like the halberd is supposed to. The crossbow should be exactly the same as it would be as playing as the MAA.

ThatOneBox

well halber can't parry 2H weapons...and it's reach is different than the big axe as far as i know..i think i'll jsut wait for the real release (lol) so i don't train myself with somethign im-proper

Spirrwell

Boxxu1337 wrote:

well halber can't parry 2H weapons...and it's reach is different than the big axe as far as i know..i think i'll jsut wait for the real release (lol) so i don't train myself with somethign im-proper

Well your choice, however it's not like you can train with it without anybody to train with. As I said both the server and client need the scripts to work. The crossbow is exactly the same though. It's beautiful, the bolts don't fly as fast as the archer's crossbow. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a third person model, just a viewmodel. So it just looks like an ordinary crossbow unless you're using it in first person.

Also, the sounds for the crossbow are there so it has the same sounds that the actual MAA crossbow would have.

ThatOneBox

you could train the reach just by sitting how the weapon hits the wall in arena. also see how many times it hits and at what angles by looking at the dust from the swing. also there is a way to add bots but i don't remeber it. (they stand there and do nothing.) but it al lseems pointless if the weapons are nto accurate as to what they are suppossed to be.

Spirrwell

Boxxu1337 wrote:

you could train the reach just by sitting how the weapon hits the wall in arena. also see how many times it hits and at what angles by looking at the dust from the swing. also there is a way to add bots but i don't remeber it. (they stand there and do nothing.) but it al lseems pointless if the weapons are nto accurate as to what they are suppossed to be.

Ah well, I double checked and I did indeed make it as its supposed to be. In the script under "MeleeWeaponData" there's variables such as "Range, "Total Damage," "SwingSpeed," and etc. I modified these variables according the halberd script that's also with the game. So, yes, it's the exact same weapon with some missing animations.

ThatOneBox

oh okay, i thought it jsut a model replacement. i was like lol. could be usefull to learn the weapon before you start using it on players. imagine getting used to the gestir spear range before it was released, would have been at the beggining haha. maybe jsut a small advantage, but still an advantage im willing to take.

Spirrwell

Boxxu1337 wrote:

oh okay, i thought it jsut a model replacement. i was like lol. could be usefull to learn the weapon before you start using it on players. imagine getting used to the gestir spear range before it was released, would have been at the beggining haha. maybe jsut a small advantage, but still an advantage im willing to take.

Well, a model replacement would've been easier... For any other game. I mean custom skins and whatnot used to work for PVKII, but nope not anymore. The GCF file seems to override any custom-ness you could possibly bring. I had to do this script in order to get it to work.

Spirrwell

Well, sorry I didn't do anything for a while with this, especially since the macebuckler was just as simple as renaming weapon_vikingshield.txt to something else, and renaming weapon_macebuckler.txt to weapon_vikingshield.txt... Yeah, well, here's a screen:



And even though you could quite easily do this yourself, here's the script. Well have fun.