HDT Flails, Suggestions, Ideas.

[Auratum]

I know it guys, it must have been asked tens of thousands of times, but why isn't there a flail mod made? In 2014 the excuse was the underdevelopement of HDT. Now there are bouncing tits and asses everywhere, HDT vags, HDT hair, is it really that hard to make a flail mod or so? I am aware of that it is really hard to make mods like this and I am not a modder.

[Andy14]

As Decoration feasible as usable weapon - rather not.

HDT PE moves bones, and weapons have no skin (bones).

 

Otherwise I would have been a bull whip

[Auratum]

I see the problem now, thank you. If not that way, couldn't it be pre animated like the bows draw animation? Im not quite sure about this either cuz as I mentioned i have 0 experience in modding, animating, etc... Would that be a problem with the weapon that it would need to use a different set of animations not the one handed ones?

[Andy14]

Also an animation requires bones.

HDT PE moves bones in real time on the basis of physics.

For animations bone movements are recorded in frames.

[Auratum]

You must have seen this video, how did they manage to do it then?

 

around 2:50

 

[tenzan]

I'd chock this down to the general level of interest combined with the level of difficulty.

 

As for the video, there's a lot that needs to go on in between getting a few seconds of a functional clip vs getting something that is fully functional in-game.

[Blade_Runner]

Not to mention that Beth developers had access to the source code. Implementing a whole new category of weapons, with specific animations, like they did with lances on that vid, it's just not possible from our end of things without replacing a existing category (like two-handed). Tho i think i saw a javelin mod somewhere.

It would still work if the flail was a regular mace, without any kind of accounting for the ball actually hitting the target - the game would simply assume the weapon hit. But like others say, it's mainly a matter of interest: compare the amount of female hair and breast physic related mods to that of hdt enabled hairstyles and equipment for males. It's just not the direction the interest of the people with the required knowledge lies.

[Auratum]

Yeah it's kind of nice to have those mods aswell, but meh skyrim is slowly becoming more like a sex simulator kinda thing... But whatever, thanks guys for the replies it's clear to me now why isn't is really possible.