LE Shurikens and ninja weapons

[azzot]

Can anybody create some shurikens(throwing stars) and ninja weapons?.I want to make my character a ninja.

Thank you very much.

[bben46]

There is a lot more to having a useable weapon than just making the weapon. A shuriken for example will require an entirely new set of animations for everything - carrying, drawing, ready pose (probably several) as well as several action moves. Then the target will need it's own animations for being hit in various ways. Lots and lots of work - and animations are the most difficult kind of modding.

 

Shuriken, side arm throw overarm throw, cross body throw, then left and right hand That's 6 separate animations just to throw it, Then showing the star in flight, showing a hit in various parts of the body. Now, how is it carried, how does the PC pull it out to use it?

 

Now throw in a miss, where did it go? More animations for sticking into tree, box, wood post, bounce off of a rock and anything else in game it could hit.

 

Now, the easy stuff, adding them to leveled lists, mesh and texture, adding to merchants inventory, adding to PC & NPC inventory. Setting prices.

 

And finally the really hard stuff - there is no weapon category for thrown weapons! So the modder would have to create and figure out how to add something entirely new that there is no place for in the game engine - so a new set of features MUST be incorporated into SKSE FIRST before it can possibly work in game.

 

Sometimes something that looks stupidly simple to do is insanely difficult to actually do in reality. :wallbash:

[azzot]

Thank you for the answer.It looks so simple but now,after I read your reply I realise how difficult it is. :smile:

[Moraelin]

Well, I have a ninjato in my Weapons Of The Shogunate mod, or two tantos if you're going for maximum backstab damage, if that helps.

 

For shuriken, yeah, the problem is exactly what bben46 said. I actually have a shuriken in the New Vegas version of the mod, but I can't port it because the game has no animations or category for it.

[LunaNoctis]

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=11875#

comes with shuriken and some other cool throwing weapons, CHeck it out if ur wantin em.

[JoninCactuar]

http://skyrim.nexusm...e.php?id=11875#

comes with shuriken and some other cool throwing weapons, CHeck it out if ur wantin em.

 

i was just gonna say why not try and collaborate with the Throwing Knives mod creator

[azzot]

Thank you for suggestions

[Cipherthe3vil]

But it IS possible, is it not? Surely there are some modders gifted at animations?

I feel terrible saying these things... I wish I had any talent with the CS so I can be a producer and not just a consumer.

Edited March 30, 2012 by Cipherthe3vil

[Moraelin]

Well, I wouldn't know how to even add such a category to the CS, even if I had the animations. The weapon categories seem to be hard-coded, and there are no thrown weapons.

 

Since the point has been made for those mods, yes, mods have been made which use the archery or wand animations. So you COULD have, say, a ninjato which acts as a bow and a ninja star which acts as an arrow. Or a ninja star which is a wand that shoots ninja stars as projectiles. Probably most modders around know how to make either. The problem is, frankly, it looks awfully wrong once the novelty factor of "look, I have a wand that looks like a gun/shuriken/whatever" wears off.

 

But, tell you what, if you can find someone to make an animation for it, I'm porting this baby instantly:

http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/downloads/images/42738-1-1310210991.jpg

 

And Jaysus has an even better (fancier) looking one, so we could all go whine at him to port his too :P