can chrysalid drawing routine 7 hold weapons?

[kikimoristan]

chyssalid drawing routine (number 7) has the least amount of frames and still has a full body with walking cycle turning and can hold weapons.

but can it hold weapons?
 

[Dioxine]

The weapon will be drawn in the proper place, just his "hands" won't connect with it Naturally you need to set his LivingWeapon setting to false to enable him using normal weapons.

[kikimoristan]

thanks dioxine.

i only asked because i am trying to make new  aliens and i wanted to make my life the easiest by picking most easy to use drawing routine.

alright.

[kikimoristan]

 actually i was looking at floater and i think floater drawing routine 1 must be the absolute simplest one for an alien with complete walking cycle turning and ability to hold weapons.

#1 has a 5 full body frame  walking cycle for each of the 8 directions (n nw w sw s se e ne) . and has separate hands to hold objects . seems it has 6 x 8 = 48 frames for hands. i assume 8 are for not holding anything, 8 are for holding something and 8 are for attacking . twice that is 2 x 8 x 8 x 8 = 2 x 24 = 48.

if you compare that to chryssalid first chryssalid doesn't seem to have 3 state hand but only 2 state (attack/hold and at rest) and has 8 frames half body (torso split from legs) for each of the 8 directions (n nw w sw s se e ne). that's about twice the amount of frames and doesn't even have proper holding anim.

[kikimoristan]

ok so chryssalid has way more hand animation to do the hand waving while moving meanwhile floater doesn't animate it's hands when it moves .

muton is the most complete drawing routine for a full body walking type. damn

[Dioxine]

actually i was looking at floater and i think floater drawing routine 1 must be the absolute simplest one for an alien with complete walking cycle turning and ability to hold weapons.

#1 has a 5 full body frame  walking cycle for each of the 8 directions (n nw w sw s se e ne) . and has separate hands to hold objects . seems it has 6 x 8 = 48 frames for hands. i assume 8 are for not holding anything, 8 are for holding something and 8 are for attacking . twice that is 2 x 8 x 8 x 8 = 2 x 24 = 48.

Bit more complex.
8x2 for not holding anything, 8 for left arm wielding (any weapon), 8x2 for right arm wielding (1-handed wielding & 2-handed wielding), 8 for right arm firing 2-handed weapon.
Same goes for snakeman, as well as Muton (Muton is using the same routine as human).

Reference for human/muton/sectoid:
xcom_0232 - xcom_0239 right arm (one-handed weapon)
xcom_0240 - xcom_0247 left arm (any weapon)
xcom_0248 - xcom_0255 right arm (two-handed weapon)
xcom_0256 - xcom_0263 right arm (firing weapon)

[kikimoristan]

i see.. thank you dioxine.

i'm trying to figure out this animation routine crap so i can make some new art sprites

i think floater can dual wield. he's just missing the 8 frame animation per arm per direction making him appear to float/fly.