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Melee Animation

Description
Adds detailed animations to melee combat, and new melee combat mechanics.
This mod aims to spice up the regular Rimworld melee combat by adding custom hand-made animations for attacking & moving, and for new melee mechanics: duels, executions and Unique Skills. The mod also (optionally) adds lassos, to pull enemies into melee range.

Quick start guide
  • Install mod. Equip a pawn with a compatible melee weapon.
  • Draft the pawn. Right click on a target to bring up options to execute, lasso, use a skill or duel.
  • Your pawns (and enemies!) will automatically perform executions, use lassos, and enter duels whenever they can.
  • Place down a Duel Spot (in Misc tab) to do friendly duels between your colonists.
  • You can craft lassos at a tailor bench. You can change how your colonists use their lasso/execution in the Assign tab.
  • Absolutely everything can be customised in the mod settings. Please check the settings carefully!

Compatibility
Compatible with:
  • All the mods listed here.[github.com] Other mods may be compatible if they provide their own patches. If a mod is not patched, it can't do melee animations.
  • Combat Extended
  • Simple Sidearms (I recommend it!)
  • Yayo's Animation
  • NALs Facial Animation (and derived mods)
  • Vanilla Backgrounds Expanded. My mod adds a special dynamic background featuring artwork by @no_tables. Check it out!
  • HAR modded races, biotech races.
NOT compatible with:
  • Multiplayer.
  • RimThreaded, probably. This mod has multithreading built-in. Attempt to run both at your own risk.
  • Duel wield, soft incompatibility. Only a single weapon out of the melee dual wield will be shown, but they are both still functional.

What does this add and what does it change?
All compatible melee weapons have attack, execution and duel animations based on the type and size of weapon.
'Standard' melee combat does not change. There are new animations when pawns attack, but mechanically nothing changes. However, there are several new (optional) mechanics:

  • Executions: Despite the name, an execution animation is not always lethal. An execution animation is where the attacking pawn will perform a flashy melee attack animation on the victim pawn, and the end result will be either death, downing or injuring of the victim. The outcome is determined based on a combination of melee skill, armor, weapon pen, damage type etc.
  • Duels: When two pawns with valid melee weapons are fighting, they may enter a Duel. A Duel is a 1-on-1 melee fight with a custom dynamic animation. The outcome of a duel is determined by each pawn's Duel Ability stat, and the winner of the duel will perform an Execution on the loser. There are also friendly duels between your colonists, which serve as recreation and training.
  • Lassos: A lasso can be equipped and serves as a way to quickly pull an enemy into melee range. Pawns will combine their lasso with their Execution to quickly pull an enemy into melee range and instantly perform an Execution on them! Lassos can also be used to pull friendlies out of harm's way.
  • Unique Skills: Pawns can unlock Unique Skills when they meet certain conditions. These skills are normally powerful attacks or abilities (animated of course) that are highly deadly but come with drawbacks. See the table below for the current list of Unique Skills.


Skill Name
Requirements
Description
Outcome
Mystic Weapon Summon
Level 5 Psylink and Level 10 Melee
Summons dozens of weapons to impale a single target.
Target is killed (100%) and caster falls into a ~3 day psychic coma
Scarlet Edge
Equip weapon 'Scarlet Edge' and Level 16 Melee
Moving faster than the eye can follow, strike a single enemy down. Very edgy.
Target is killed (100%) and attacker receives a mood penalty.
Lance Ultrakill
Equip weapon 'Gáe Bulg' (from mod Rimforge) and Level 18 Melee
Kill a single target in a complex and stylish animation that launches them into the air.
Target is killed (100%). Long cooldown.

FAQ
  • Add/remove mid game?
  • Yes, but when removing make sure to delete any items added by this mod (lasso, weapons) and make sure no pawns are in an animation when you save.
  • Can I change xyz??
  • Please carefully read through the mod settings. There are over 40 options. If that's not enough leave a comment and I will add the customisation option.
  • I don't like X part of this mod
  • See previous question. Almost everything can be disabled.
  • A certain melee weapon mod isn't compatible, can you make it compatible?
  • I am always working to make mods compatible. Mod authors can also make their mods compatible, here is a guide.[github.com]. By default this mod anonymously logs the ID of incompatible mods, letting me know what mods to make patches for. You can opt out of this anonymous logging in the mod settings under the Other tab. Logging is not active the first time you launch the game with this mod.
  • Something isn't working. Where can I report a bug?
  • Please report bugs in the Bugs thread on this workshop page. You must include an error log or I will ignore your report. You can also help be submitting a pull request to the Github repository.
  • Unarmed animations? Gun animations?
  • Gun animations: no. It's called Melee Animation for a reason :) That includes using the gun as a melee weapon.
    Unarmed animations: maybe, in the distant future. It's hard to design unarmed combat animations when arms, legs and sometimes hands are invisible.
  • How can I create new animations?
  • See this guide on Github! Link here.[github.com]

Known issues
  • Zombieland zombies cannot be executed. Will not be fixed, it's just the way that Zombieland works :/
  • Rocketman may cause some visual issues because it lowers the tickrate of pawn components. May be fixed in future.
  • Weapon glow masks do not work in some animations. This is a shader issue, may be fixed in future if I can figure out how the vanilla shader works.

Future plans
  • More animations! More variety! More compatible mods!
  • An API for other mod developers to use.

Support Me
I have a KoFi for one-off donations :)[ko-fi.com].
You can also support me by checking out Radian Helix's patreon[www.patreon.com]. Radian Helix is made up by the folk's responsible for Save Our Ship, and I'm working with them on Project Morningstar, an upcoming game Rimworld players are sure to enjoy!
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kyrambox 8 hours ago 
@A possible Astronaut You may use mod Melee Animation Vanilla, it patches and removes lasso and duels entirely from this.
A Possible Astronaut 12 hours ago 
I thought this mod was cool until lasso's ruined my play-through. Why the ♥♥♥♥ would you add such a fundamentally game-breaking item to an animation mod?? very lame dude.
✰ ℝ𝕠𝕕𝕣𝕚 ✰ Nov 13 @ 7:19am 
Incredible, Needed
dank2ng Nov 12 @ 8:38pm 
Incredible patching guide!!!
larsobot Nov 12 @ 4:05am 
amazing mod but the lasso is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying especially when they target my ranged units that cant do ♥♥♥♥
SpiNfuZer Nov 12 @ 1:19am 
Is there any way to change which weapons can be used for friendly duels?
WarWolf Nov 9 @ 3:57pm 
There seems to be an issue with Lightsabers from star wars the force lightsabers mod by Lee. After a fight pawns will keep their lightsabers out permanently. Ive tried switching weapons, unequiping, reequiping, and reloading the save and nothing fixes it. Is this something you could take a look at?
Outdoor Nov 7 @ 9:49am 
I just adore this mod. Let me give a situation that happened during my session last night:
A colonist, Toni, whom had been recruited for like, a YEAR, betrayed us during a pirate attack (which is something I then learned could happen) while she was a part of a big firing line I set up, so she was standing right next to my insane combat specialist, Jet.
Before I had even really understood what happened and moved over to see what was happening, Jet drew her knife (simple sidearms FTW), did an insane backflip over her best friend who she's fought beside and gone on adventures with for the better part of a year and cut off her head.
I literally was thinking "well maybe if we capture her we can recruit her again because she's a good doctor" and then she was immediately decapitated.
Goobs Nov 5 @ 10:51pm 
There's more to it. Disabling your mod fixed the crash. Re-enabling another set of mods, thinking I'd found the problem, has reintroduced the crash. Obviously something else has broken interactions with multiple mods. Disregard, I guess.
Epicguru  [author] Nov 5 @ 9:39pm 
"broken *transpiler patch"