Marlin 1894 lever-action rifle

[Junnari]

good stuff so far

Should I be breaking my models down like you for animation? I mean instead of the gun being one object it would be a few like barrel, trigger, etc as seperate pieces?

 

Whilst I don't know how the game specifically manages the animations and what are their limitations, if the part is moving in the animation, it's generally preferable that it's set as separate object/shape in the .nif.

[uedftus]

ok sure

during the modeling process I'm always seperating and combining the whole thing

wanted to say good work on your rifle so far and I'm in for the ride!

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[xXBrytonXx]

I hope you can pull this off because I really do miss lever action rifles.

[tartarsauce2]

maybe you could use a magazine load animation for lever actions, it's got you pulling your hand from the gun and putting it back towards and that's what a lever does, so if you were to design the thing with that, it could look like you're doing it

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Bozar_(Fallout_2)
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/M60_(Fallout_2)

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Light_support_weapon
http://www.historyofwar.org/Pictures/L86A1_LSW.jpg

BB gun is lever action'd, one might suggest the bolt action rifle animation with a different model (the animations for melee are independent of the weapon itself it turns out - I managed to get a baseball swinging like a baton this way so this might be viable elsewise)
https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/mods/120/images/2307-2-1233613499.jpg

one thing you could do is alter the combat rifle and assault rifle to better exemplify a role, kind of shoving them over a smidge so that the chinese AR has a role, one way is to make the combat rifle use .308 and do more damage - having the .308 conversion turn into something like .44 or .50 while lowering its range for that, and upping the hunting rifle damage a smidge as well just to keep it with a place

or, what you could do is keep the combat rifle more or less as-is, make the chinese AR what the current assault rifle is, and change the assault rifle into a heavy machinegun that uses 5.56 and relies on heavy weapons dependencies while blasting off 5.56 - because let's face it heavy needs some love - the current assault rifle could weigh also suck more for hipfire than currently, and so forth too, with higher recoil (because it's an LMG being hand-fired) but at least it can do more on demand than the minigun - perhaps up the damage a bit, while also making it fire slower.... just to keep it in line for balance, or make it use .308

Edited May 12, 2016 by tartarsauce2

[GeorgeCaldwell]

So this never came to be?

[TheOriginalEvilD]

It's a real bummer this apparently never happened.