Has anyone had any luck getting the daggers unittype to work? They equip them fine and it even uses the right idle animation if you set it for DAGGERS in their L and R handslots, but the character refuses to attack with them equipped. I tried given them swords as a "sub" unittype but that didn't solve the problem :/ Any idea?

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Do you mean like in the .animation file? I dont know what dat file this is. And would I just name them dagger1.skeleton, dagger2.skeleton, etc? How does the game know to use them for daggers?

Read this guide for creating custom animations: http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=56060

Cool! Got it working guys thank you!!

And as far as differentiation goes, I'm thinking daggers are slightly slower, slightly higher damage than fists/claws, and get something like 50 or 100% bonus critical damage. Since I'm moving execute chance from focus to dex, fists will be about equally helped dps-wise by strength and dexterity (good for brutes, brawlers, and barbarians flavor-wise), but dagger dps would be increased much more by dex, to increase crit chance and take advantage of their innate crit damage bonus (good for the agile, subtle, stabby types, flavor-wise).

You're wanting to be able to throw the daggers? I know there aren't any throw type "standard attack" animations, probably because there are no standard throwing weapons.

But you can put in the throwing ability as part of a skill, in which case you could just use any of the "SPECIAL_THROW..." animations. You'd need to make a "thrown dagger" missile, but that should be a piece of cake for you

Take a look at the Berserker Storm Hatchet skill. It has both the animation and the projectile you need to make a Throw Dagger skill.

Also have a look at this mod: http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=53478

The Synergies mod also contain throwing weapons. So have a look at that too.

hmm very strange - just tested it and apparently there's no new animations needed! They seem to default to the Rslash and Lslash animations just fine! And a missile (like wands) or a skill (like rifles, but use a skill like storm hatchet instead) can be added to complete the functionality! I wonder why those other mods did not utilize this?

EDIT: Since no in-game items utilize this type, it seems to be essentially a free unit type to do whatever with, as you can make the animations whatever you want in the player animation replacer, and use the translation trick to have the game call them whatever you want. This could be used to add TL1 Rifles, or anything you'd want, really. I think.

I couldn't find a tut, but it's super easy, don't worry! You basically just create a new language, and you can "translate" certain things to whatever. I've attached a quick example. Its simply a TRANSLATIONS folder you'd drop directly into a media folder in a mod. You can look through it to see how it works, but its pretty straight forward - it just makes a new language called "MODDED" that simply "translates" only "Unique" to "Very Rare" and "Shotgonnes" to "Rifles". Like I said, looking through the files will make it very clear, it's basically two very small dat files. So if in game you change the language to "MODDED", it will change only those two terms. I haven't figure out how to make it the default language though, so you do have to manually change the language to "MODDED" in game once.