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I'm trying to use Doc's 3rd person animations.
Now I don't want to overwrite the flamethrower animations, so I just overwrote the Scorpion passenger's animations.

I'm now configuring the animation tag so that I can switch the Doc's energy sword weapon type to "energy sword". It's pretty tedious, but here's my question.

If, for example, I make a mod where I switch the weapon type for the assault rifle (which uses the weapon type "Sentinel/Gravity Rifle/AR") to the "Plasma pistol", will people who join without the mod see the way I hold it differently, or is that not "CSS"?


It's important that I know this because I want to import these 3rd person animations, but if they cause people who join to crash, I'm just going to skip this.

I'm afraid that once I get it working, that people who join without the mod will get an exception error because their game doesn't understand how they're holding the energy sword.

P.S. the energy sword is replacing the plasma rifle. Whenever you add new weapons into a map, the way to keep it CSS is if you use the oldest trick in the book: meta swap an existing weapon with the new one.

If it is a new tag in the map. then no. they will drop out.

I was able to get my halo 3 gauss to be CSS by doing several things
1.) meta swap the warthog gun with the gauss cannon
2.) meta swap the warthog vehicle with the gauss vehicle
3.) replace all gauss damage tags with ones that originally existed in the map


By the way, I got the model animations working.

I tested it by making the plasma rifle's weapon type "energy sword" (aka label "fb").

It works.

video of plasma rifle with doc's 3rd person energy sword animations

I'm going to convert this map to pc and I'll post it for people to download.

I want people who can host already (don't try if you never have before), to use the plasma rifle, and tell me if people can stay in without crashing.

Here it is:http://files.filefront.com/plasmarifle+ ... einfo.html
keep in mind the animations were not updated to support the warthog passenger. If you try to enter a scorpion passenger seat, you will see the sword animations...so it will look wierd. My mod won't allow passenger seats on the tank anyways.
Again, please wield the plasma rifle and ask show yourself to other people who (may) join. Hopefully they don't crash.


I am using a different connection right now so I can't host as far as I can tell. There are a few wacked-out animations while squatting. I think those were the original, but I will change them to be more...sensible. I didn't think the animations would even import correctly, but from what I can see, they did.