Ladies and Gentlemen... My proudest moment.

[alan_smithee]

Fishswords.

<span style='color:red'>Fishswords</span>

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/alan_smithee/fishswords.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

<span style='color:blue'><span style='`font-size`:30pt;`line-height`:100%'>FISHSWORDS!!!</span></span>

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/alan_smithee/fishswordsbig.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

That's right, this is not Photoshopped in any way, these men are actually fighting with fish! All thanks to Inez' beautiful tool, expording a blade's "start" and "end" locators and importing them to a fish.

I'll get to work right away on Ratguns next.

(Holy crap, adding new weapon models is going to be a breeze now... Quick, guys, I need some new models to work with!)

 

[Achilles]

..psycho. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

 

[CatalinaThePirate]

<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/w00t.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="w00t.gif" />
<img src="http://www.ganotherapyusa.com/extras/pink.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" />
OMG, I am going to laugh about this one for YEEEEAAAARRRRS!!!

You are too much, Alan! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/onya.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="onya.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/w00t.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="w00t.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

 

[alan_smithee]

Rats didn't work after all. Rats. And I made a plank into a club, but with both that and the fish they appear all shiny, like so much so it obscures the texture...

I remembered Inez' big animals to download from her site, but she doesn't have the fish, and I wanna wave around a honking mackeral. And that swordfish from the tavern would be cool too.

 

[Sirus_Darke]

What about using Rys Bloom as a weapon... there has to be something that he's usefull for <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

 

[skull]

Great stuff Alan,wunder if putt'n a couple O broken rum bottle's in der hands would werk <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

 

[CouchcaptainCharles]

LOL !

Let's add a splashing sound if they hit home, and let's make them poisonous if they are "Badly Worn" <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="icon_wink.gif" />

 

[Drunken]

<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

Name: Badly Worn Fish
Discription: The boatswain fished it out a few weeks ago, but left it out in the sun... A tad smelly... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />

 

[SirChristopherMings]

Alan,
Brilliant and twisted! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/w00t.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="w00t.gif" /> I don't know how you do it! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bow.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="bow.gif" />

What happens if you give them a lamp? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />

 

[Meigger]

Now that is outstanding. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

 

[alan_smithee]

The third option for the poll, which decided not to show, was for a "fresh fish stolen from the galley under the cook's nose." I MAY make all three, but one fishsword is silly enough, don't you think?

Re: using other items: Characters will not work, neither anything with animation, so no animals besides this and the bird. And I'm finding no matter how you definethe start and end locators, the character grasps the item a the exact centre... I could try a lamp, but the ones I've seen aren't placed in the centre of the file, they're up high and to the side so they can attach to a wall.

And I tried one bottle but for some silly reason it didn't work. I shall try again.

(This fish will be available, by the way, through Quentin B. Narborough, the curator of my Curiosities Shoppe on Redmond, as part of a much larger quest.)

 

[CatalinaThePirate]

How about flowers? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/w00t.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="w00t.gif" />

Looking forward to this quest, Alan, sounds great! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/onya.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="onya.gif" />

 

[Otaku_Hanzo]

How about a nice mackerel with which we can cut down trees with? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

Or perhaps some shrubbery? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

Funny stuff though. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />

 

[Petros]

LOL
This is really funny <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />

Way to go Alan <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/onya.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="onya.gif" />

On what type of sword fish, they could be half starved Piranha, with razor
sharp serrated teeth, brought up from South America by the Akellani.

 

[alan_smithee]

By the way, does anyone know -- does "bladexx," the numbered weapon IDs, model and texture files, have to be in the "bladexx" format, or can any arbitrary name work, so long as all the file definitions are correct? (And what are all the file def's that must point to the right files?)

 

[alan_smithee]

To answer my own question, it seems that, yes, all weapons must be bladexx and pistolxx... otherwise, when you have this weapon in your inventory, the buttons on the F2 menue don't work. Bizarre.

I've incorporated Fishswords into the weapons quality mod, so you'll get one soon from Quentin Basil Narborough, the curator of my curiosities shop, if I'm successful with that quest. I'm about 1/4 done.

There are a few different species of Fishswords. Here's the toppest quality, which the Douwesen blacksmith did for me for free, since I apparently set the price of the fish too low.

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/alan_smithee/fishswordinventory.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

 

[alan_smithee]

So... been busy. Got a Quest halfway done; still having this bug where I can't enter the sea map mode anywhere at any time, though. ("Invalid argument to date encode"?!)

And these new weapons of mine, so they are supposed to be `quest-only`, but I say yes to skipping equip, trade and randitem and everyone still walks around with them and I see them in stores. boo to that.

Playing with small existing model bits in certain locations, I've created a "shipwreck graveyard" on a "reef" off KR... and three hangman's posts in one of the forts, on a wooden platform. I can't fake ropes, unless I paint them around the victims' necks, but you get a post with a crossbar (from a lantern, with the lantern image made invisible). And I've got two of the six blacksmith shops places.

I still need a model of an anvil! Please. Once I have that I'll release the new shops, locations, blacksmith models and dialogs to the FTP.

 

[NathanKell]

Wow, fishslapping brought to life!
Genius. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />
Alan, are you setting the groupID correctly? As it's that, and SFAIK not the _item_ ID, that needs to be ITEM_TYPE_BLADE or whatever.

SFAIK yes you can use any name.
Wait, maybe the Weapons Mod needs them in BladeXX form since it stores the blade id int rather than the item index int?

 

[CouchcaptainCharles]

I also assume that your problems may be connected with Scheffnow's weaponsmod array. I put my special weapons definitions in InitItems deliberately outside of the weaponsmod, and the "skiptrade" etc. works fine.

Can someone make the anvil please so that we can see this released <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> (I in my crude way would use a "swim goods" box with a metaltexture <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/oops3.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="ops2" border="0" alt="oops3.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" /> )

BTW, hammering ancient fish in shape on the anvil of an obscure blacksmith, is that the way how they make those fish fingers and "Fish Macs" ?

 

[Inez Dias]

Alan, check your mail: I tried to put a texture onto the anvil model you sent me for export - I, too, can't wait to see this released!