LE Battlestaff animations

[peregrine111]

I wonder if any modder capable of making animations is still active these days...

now that there is FNIS PCEA2 out, it should be a golden age of animation. Instead, there's nothing. Like EVERY gameplay overhaul adds new types of weapons, and they mostly can do well enough with classic 1handed/2handed animations, BUT there are two that are different - Battlestaff and Spear (Pike, Partisan or whatever else they're called by different overhauls).

The closest I could get to a skilled staff user was installing Kick Bash animations, but I still hold and swing my battlestaff like any other 2hander. None of the animation mods I've seen so far would make it look any better. Because:
- staff or spear is held around thirds of the total length. Any mod I've seen grips staff like a... well... baseball bat
- for staff, you attack with both ends, not just one. Spear is a bit different from staff, as it can cut as well with one end... I suppose some 2handed animation mods could just barely be okay with a spear.

I'd love to one day see battlestaff animation pack that would be ready to just plug into PCEA2 and activate ingame if you use a staff.

 

Here's a video of fighting with staves for reference (tho most of the time they're just playing around with choreography, but they demonstrate plenty of attacks, idle stances, block stances, etc to make a complete pack of animations out of it)

Edited July 8, 2016 by peregrine111