HOW TO ADD WEAPON AND REPLACE ANIMATION

[john]

hellow. i am first time posting here.
i have many problems and. i cant get it to work !  :(

1. ADD WEAPONS TRANSDOSHAN LS-150 TO MY SQUAD MEMBER.
i added the weapon by 'actor-pawn-Reqiredequipment and added 'ctinventory.trandoshanrifle''
after doing this my squad member have the ls-150 as i wished. but  a few second later the weapons are gone from their hands..
and they held the ls-150 like dc-17m (you know they dont held like that in multyplayer.)
so i thought it is because of the lack of animations. so i attempted to add the multyplayer commando's animation  to my suqad member. but failed.

2. CHANGE MY SQUAD MEMBER TO TRANDOSHAN MERCERNARY.

[frazscotland]

John i take it your froma country where english not the dominant language ?
Well i dont totally understand what u mean about the weapons but as far as changing the panws what you must do is....
open actorclassbrowser
goto PAWN  CTPAWN REPUBLIC CLONECOMMANDO
there in each commando DISPLAY  change the skin to whichever trando u want to use
then DISPLAYADVANCED    MESH SkeletalMesh'Clone.TrandoshanMerc'
then PAWN  MESHSETS   SkeletalMesh'Clone.TrandoshanMerc'
then in required equipment change the weps
in HIDDEN you can change the hud names...
NEXT goto    INFO GAMEINFO  CTGAMEINFO    CTGAMEINFOSP
CUSTOM ANIMS   in each skeletalmesh change them to  ...
SkeletalMesh'Clone.TrandoshanMerc'
but keep the animations link.
Thats it you can actually have anything for your sp pawn
Hope that helps ya.. 8)
You can actually ADD to the existing so you can have multiple meshes  like this..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhHnXaEYxRo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8ShyLZw3PA&feature=related

[john]

i did it but not working   :D   
have you ever tried equiping the pawns with CTINVENTORY.TRANDOSHANRIFLE  in single player ? (pawn - CTpawn - Republic - Clonecommando .....)
they will held the gun like DC-17 and after few second when they see their enemy, the weapon dissappear from their hands.(they should have held the gun like RAMBO !)
so i tried fixing this problems by (pawn - CTpawn - Republic - Clonecommando - commando07delta- defaultproperties - pawn -  MESHsets -  set- MeshAnimation'Clone.CloneCommandoSPSet to MeshAnimation'Clone.MPSet') but i thought this will not activate doorbreach or some sp animations.

so ive tried 
(pawn - CTpawn - Republic - Clonecommando - commando07delta- defaultproperties - pawn -  MESHsets - add - MeshAnimation'Clone.MPSet')(with mesh trandomerc) but this dosent work either.


(squad= clonecommando)
why i tried to change add MPset animation is in singleplay mission you cant see them using the squad using trandoweaponary. because they have no animation using the trandoshan weaponary. so when i equip them with trandoweapon the weapon will gone from their hands.

so plz just try  changing  the weapon DC17 TO TRANDOSHANRIFLE (with not chaing anythingelse)
there will be many people who would curious about this matter.

[Tycon]

Fraz, i think your way would work, but since it isn't, here's another.

In your map, add the trandoshans you want to be in your squad.
double click on each one to get its properties.
in the AI tab in the properties, set bCanBeSquadMember and bCanDoSquadMarkers to true.
Finally, you add the anim packages for sp markers and mp weapons.

[frazscotland]

My way does work perfect it only involves changing PROPERTIES.u
here...
http://www.xfire.com/profile/frazscotland/screenshots/?view#115626902
http://www.xfire.com/profile/frazscotland/screenshots/?view#115626895
u can change the names the numbers and the weps
The main reason its not working for you is because for MP in HIDDEN each wepon has INVENTORY GROUP which is 5.
For SP wep use u must make the INVENTORY GROUP of the wep u wanna use   1   !!!!
apart from that do everything i said 2 cells below.
u kan also edit the voices   but "banter" is still there 8)

[john]

um....
ok, just constricted the topic to just

'AFTER CHANGING WEAPONS IN SP COMMANDOS TO CTINVENTORY.TRANDOSHANRIFLE HOW U CAN MAKE THEM  HELD THE WEAPON THE SAME AS MP POSTURE AND  MAKE THE WEAPON NOT TO  BE DISSAPPEARED DURING THE MISSION?'

i think solving this will solve everything

[Tycon]

Yeah its complicated...

Unfortunately, what you're asking really can't be done. The AI for the commando wants to hold the DC17 and only the DC17. If he doesn't have one, he grabs his "invisible weapon" that doesn't do anything. Unless you want to get really hard-core and redo the script of the commando, there's no way to do it.

[frazscotland]

open actorclassbrowser
goto PAWN  CTPAWN REPUBLIC CLONECOMMANDO
there in each commando DISPLAY  change the skin to whichever trando u want to use
then DISPLAYADVANCED    MESH SkeletalMesh'Clone.TrandoshanMerc'
then PAWN  MESHSETS   SkeletalMesh'Clone.TrandoshanMerc'
then in required equipment change the weps
in HIDDEN you can change the hud names...
NEXT goto    INFO GAMEINFO  CTGAMEINFO    CTGAMEINFOSP
CUSTOM ANIMS   in each skeletalmesh change them to  ...
SkeletalMesh'Clone.TrandoshanMerc'
but keep the animations link.
Thats it you can actually have anything for your sp pawn

u can change the names the numbers and the weps
The main reason its not working for you is because for MP in HIDDEN each wepon has INVENTORY GROUP which is 5.
For SP wep use u must make the INVENTORY GROUP of the wep u wanna use   1

Also in the INVENTORY in each weapon u must also change the HUDARMSMESH its in DISPLAY ADVANCED MESH  if u want it to be trando its
SkeletalMesh'HudArms.tHudArmsBow'
SkeletalMesh'HudArms.tHudArmsConc'
SkeletalMesh'HudArms.tHudArmsDC15s'
etc etc etc
Look at ny  screenshots closely ....
http://www.xfire.com/profile/frazscotland/screenshots/?view#115626895
2 trandos have shotgun the 3rd has dc15blaster   i have shotgun
here i perform the hudarms animations set bomb etc etc
http://www.xfire.com/profile/frazscotland/screenshots/?view#115626902
WATCH AND LEARN....
http://www.xfire.com/profile/frazscotland/screenshots/?view#115668119
http://www.xfire.com/profile/frazscotland/screenshots/?view#115668114