Animation Suggestion For Throwing Knives

[StrangeCandy]

I was going to post this right after I caught the livestream replay on youtube (friggin fraggin history class...making me miss livestreams....) but the forums were down. I heard some talk of throwing knives incoming in an update or two so I figured I'd toss an animation & design suggestion/model/thing.

 

I used to play a lot of Tribes: Ascend before I got into Warframe, so when you said throwing knives I automatically thought of the Throwing Knives in T:A. They have a really solid animation and the way the character holds them fits with what Geoff (I think it was him anyway) said about holding a bunch of them in one hand and throwing with the other.

 

this is them in the first person view, sadly I can't find a video of them in third person view, but oh well. My two cents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI7soztfcPo

 

sea pancake OUT

[Apinaheebo]

That looks $&*&*#(%&.

[StrangeCandy]

That looks $&*&*#(%&.

:I

[Shion963]

That guy's got to have some monster wrist power to throw those things by just rotating his palm. Gotta agree that it looks odd.

[Symbiont71]

i don't mean to be rude, no offense, seriously, but that's not ninja-like :D I had fun watching that :D i imagined him throwing his mom's plates at them :D

 

On the other hand, it made me think about the razor throwing gun in Unreal tournament, which imo is awesome :D

 

http://www.oocities.org/timessquare/dungeon/Dungeon/7756/razor.jpg

 

a little improvement on the design and we have ourselves guns that pin enemies to walls and guns that cut them in half :D

[StrangeCandy]

i don't mean to be rude, no offense, seriously, but that's not ninja-like :D I had fun watching that :D i imagined him throwing his mom's plates at them :D

 

On the other hand, it made me think about the razor throwing gun in Unreal tournament, which imo is awesome :D

 

http://www.oocities.org/timessquare/dungeon/Dungeon/7756/razor.jpg

 

a little improvement on the design and we have ourselves guns that pin enemies to walls and guns that cut them in half :D

 

A spinfusor. A spinfusor is what you just posted.

 

As to the animation, i know it's not perfect. T:A was still in beta when they implemented the knives, and theyve changed the animation some if im not mistaken (it's been a while). That's why I said this was just a suggestion.

[ValhaHazred]

A spinfusor. A spinfusor is what you just posted.

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No that's definitely the Rajor Jack/Ripper from the Unreal series. Very fun series of weapons, depending on the model they shot ricochette blades, explosive blades, guided blades and even blade mines. Makes me wonder if alternate firing modes would work in Warframe?