Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-29620769-20181219104942

Greetings! This is only a visual change, no practical effect! I was thinking, we have swords, spears, battleaxes, pikes, halberds, poleaxes, warhammers and many more weapons. But regardless of their length and type, they are always held in one hand and you whack people with them. (The latter point can be a suggestion for future)

Maybe it would not be too hard to implement a feature, where the mod checks if weapon type has 2-handed flag as true, and if so, the character would hold the weapon differently.

When player would be holding 2-handed weapon, they would hold it with both hands. This would also cause any shield the player is wearing, to move to their back as if they were not holding a weapon.

I made a few examples, in first one, hands are simply moved together to hold the weapon

I consider this one the most likely, if this would ever be done, because this is just a basic model with hands moved very simply towards each other.

Then in the second option, we could have both hands on different parts of the weapon shaft, which is closer to how it really is, but might look weird in some cases, like when wearing armor or something? Not sure.



Then the third one is easily the least likely, here the character would be standing a bit sideways, holding the weapon from clearly different parts of the shaft. This is how it would really go, because the shaft can't just randomly go through your body and you're okay with it. (I added the stick there, because without it, it would have looked weird)

Then maybe, just maybe, multiple holding positions could be added, so that really long weapons like polearms and halberds, and thrusting weapons like spears and pikes, would have the position number 3, and then heavy weapons like warhammers and battleaxes would have the position number 2. (I know in reality most warhammers and battleaxes were one-handed, but the mod ones don't exactly look like you can hold them with one hand)

Also before someone says something about it, no, holding dagger downwards shouldn't be a thing, instead they should be held similar to swords.

I know this is unlikely suggestion, but... Maybe? Or what issues would it cause? Anyways... Thank you for your time reading this, I'll be back! -Shinare 