tree race

[dragon5268]

could anyone make a tree race like harold from fallout 3 cause being a tree man you could have a 100% weakness to fire and stuff :biggrin:

[kieranfoy]

In simplest terms: No.

 

Delving into complex matters: No, Oblibion's game engine doesn't allow that sort of thing. Playable races use the same set of body meshes. Playing as something very different involves a script auto-equpping a suit of armor onto the player, and even that is usually bipedal, because extremely unsual shapes (like a tree) look bloody weird using the palyer's animations, which can't be replaced without chanign everyone's animations, which would look daft unless you made everyone a tree, which would look even dafter.

[shadowace]

In simplest terms: No.

 

Delving into complex matters: No, Oblibion's game engine doesn't allow that sort of thing. Playable races use the same set of body meshes. Playing as something very different involves a script auto-equpping a suit of armor onto the player, and even that is usually bipedal, because extremely unsual shapes (like a tree) look bloody weird using the palyer's animations, which can't be replaced without chanign everyone's animations, which would look daft unless you made everyone a tree, which would look even dafter.

Or, you could just do a retexture of just a normal race, and make it look as close to a tree as a human can look.

[DagonTheranis]

A Spriggan uses the same body mesh as the human races do, I believe. So you might have a wierd running animation, but you could just about do it. But you'd have to be female.

[kieranfoy]

I dubt that's what he wants, but they have a few Dryad races which do that, so already done.