One-handed Summer Sword

[DaiTenken]

Hi Guys, I was wondering if someone could make a version of the summer sword greatsword that is one-handed.

 

Alternatively if there is a tutorial somewhere that will show me how to do that please post the link.

 

Thanks for reading

[DarkeWolf]

Heyas DaiTenken- InBleedingRapture's "Rapture's Weapons" has a one handed summer sword. Tho it's not as a greatsword anymore. http://www.dragonagenexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1621 Very nice mod, I've been using it for a while now.

 

Alternatively, if you're still looking to get the greatsword damage from it, you can try out this mod- http://www.dragonagenexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11 which allows you to use 2h weapons 1 handed. Tho if you go that route, I also recommend this mod- http://www.dragonagenexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=348 to increase the swing speed of the weapon.

 

Hope this helps :)

[DaiTenken]

thanks DarkeWolf, the "Rapture's Weapons" look quite awesome, have dowloaded and installed (although its not quite what i was after).

 

I tried out the "Dual Weild" mod but it makes every greatsword one-handed. What I was after was something more like the knght-commander sword in this mod - http://www.dragonagenexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1271

 

It uses the summersword model and is onehanded without being shrunk or changing all other greatswords. However i'm not really fond of the blade textures and just wanted it plain like the original two-hander. I think its just changing the model to greatsword 4, but i'm not sure how to edit the file to let me do that..

[DarkeWolf]

Oh yeah, I'd forgotten that some of the vanilla characters are 2handers. I use a mod that lets me always set their skillsets, so I usually have them as dual wielders. :facepalm:

Tho jojjo's greatswords still go 2h, even with the mod that I mentioned before (the sheath takes up the 2hand slot) so those characters still work with their existing skillsets, and his weapons. http://www.dragonagenexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1430

But not everybody is fond of that style of swords.

I pretty much always use the 2h to 1h mod, and as you can see here, my Cauthrien Clone in the background is still using the 2h skill with one of jojjo's greatswords.

http://www.dragonagenexus.com/imageshare/image.php?id=6771

 

I wish that it were as simple as just telling the game to use a 2h model for a longsword. Unfortunately... that's not how it works. You have to take the 2h sword model, rename it to a 1h model, and then add the new model to the toolset.

Something that I myself am not familiar with how to do (the latter part of it, I mean). Tho tis something that I need to learn.

 

An easier method if you wanted to use say... the vanilla textures, would be to download and install DATOOL http://social.bioware.com/project/41/ extract the model and textures for the summer sword. Then find out the filename for the textures and model used in the mod that you mentioned (tho that will require either having the dragon age toolset, to open up the files, OR contacting the author to find out the names of the files from them) and then just rename the files you extracted with DATOOL to match the ones from the mod, and drop those into your override folder.

 

 

BTW- I know that it's off topic, but since you said that you liked Bleed's weapon pack, I thought that I should let you know this. I've been talking with him recently, and he intends to update the pack soon. To include katanas, and possibly a few other new weapons. So you might bookmark that page, and check back on it periodically ;)

[DaiTenken]

Ah, now I see why it hasn't been done before! I'll contact the author of the warden armour though see if i can get the file names and stuff from him.

 

Good news about bleeds weapon pack aswell, i'll keep a watch for the updated version

 

Thanks again for the replies and help DarkeWolf

[TSotP]

another option is to download 'silver runic armor'. it contains a single handed summersword model. not sure if you'll like the texture on it though. but worth a look :)

 

i personally can't understand why someone hasn't taken all the 2 handed models and made them into 1 handed weapons. sten wilding a massive axe and his 'asala' would look awesome. (i had this idea even before bioware 'stole it from my mind' and made the Arashok do it lol

Edited September 21, 2011 by TSotP

[DaiTenken]

another option is to download 'silver runic armor'. it contains a single handed summersword model. not sure if you'll like the texture on it though. but worth a look :)

 

I'll download and try it out once i get home thanks TSotP.

 

The dual-wielding Arishok was one of the few things i liked about DA2, would be cool to have sten do that in origins.

[DarkeWolf]

There's a couple of methods that you could use to make sten dual wield. One, is to use the no follower autolevel mod. http://www.dragonagenexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=4 this mod allows you to set their skills yourself, rather than them going off the presets they use, when they level up.

Very nice if you want to customize your character's skillsets, or make it more like other games, when it comes to their skills.

 

Another option is to use a mod called Beguiler - http://www.dragonagenexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=205 this mod has the potential for ENORMOUS cheating tho. But very nice if you play in extremely hard difficulty mode. Allows you to add points to them whenever you want, so that you can add skills, attributes, loyalty, etc to them anytime you want.

I have noticed one bug tho, which is that the game keeps track of their points. So if for example you throw 25 points of STR on a character, sometimes when they level up, the game sees they have too many Attribute points, so it doesn't give them any when they level, until their level equals the number of attribute points that they've got.

 

I've used both of these methods in the past, most of the time running them both. I've had sten so that he could master out the 2h weapon skills AND the Dual Wield skills. (That, combined with the 2h wield mod I mentioned before, so that he wields a pair of "asala style" blades.)

 

Yeah, I really do wish that it was easy as just saying "ok game, use this model for this, and this model for this". THe game's files all contain abbreviations in them. For example a greatsword contains the abbreviation "gsw" and a longsword contains the abbrev "lsw" in the filenames. So when making a longsword, the game will only use artwork with the "lsw" abbrev.

Not too hard to change the filenames, once you have the toolset, or the DATOOL. But like I said, I havent figured out how to get the new models into the game yet :(

 

Niiice input TS :thumbsup: (Tho I miss your old avatar :( ) If you wanted to, by either the toolset, or with DA tool, you could make him use a larger axe to DW. Using the same extract, rename, and then drop in override folder that I mentioned before. This would be doing a "replacer" model on a weapon that you didn't like.

Edited September 20, 2011 by DarkeWolf

[TSotP]

That's not a bad idea Darkewolf. i personally think the Maces in the game are underused, and that the models are pretty rubbish. I could add a Battleaxe and the 'mothers chosen' greatsword into the game as maces then have sten DW them.

 

i might give that a try.

 

I may change my Avatar back. I just wanted people to be jelous of my Rogue GW armor in DA:O lol (it's photoshoped)

[DaiTenken]

On no I meant dual weilding two-handers like the Arishok...i have the console stuff enabled and give him DW talents on most of my play throughs, but thanks for the detailed answer.

 

I'll try the extract, rename and override drop this weekend hopefully it goes well.

 

TSoP i was about to ask where you got the armour from! still waiting on tmp7704 to finish his legacy mod so i can use it myself