jobiwan7
Jedi Scholar
I was wondering if someone could use Kinboat's dragons and add a sword or spear-weilding rider.
Unit Request: Dragon Rider
- Thread starter jobiwan7
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Raw is War?
Soul Reaper
Yeah, me too.
jobiwan7
Jedi Scholar
tjedge1
Writer of writerly things
I like it. 
jobiwan7
Jedi Scholar
So is there someone who can make it? I can do those previews, but I can't make the unit.
jobiwan7
Jedi Scholar
Also, I think a swordsman would look better than a spearman.
Fier Canadien
Citizen
Methinks a pikeman would be better (imagine trying to hit someone with a sword or a spear on that huge thing
).
tjedge1
Writer of writerly things
I agree a pikeman would be better. Or at least a spearman so he's not too heavy and carrying a pike or lance.
GIDustin
Emperor
Honestly, even if you are close enough to hit with a spear, the dragon is close enough to barbecue them. If he throws the spear, that is a different thing. Perhaps a spearthrower, archer, crossbowman . . .?
GIDustin
GIDustin
jobiwan7
Jedi Scholar
I think an archer would probably look good, but can someone actually make the unit? Is there anyone who would do this?
Kal-el
Deity
I was thinking the same thing.
The guy is unlikely to be engaging in any aerial combat, he will leave that up to the dragon, the need for a weapon would come when he got on the ground and had to fight on foot. Of course there are the Dragonlance novels, and I assume that that means those guys were fighting with lances on dragons, but I never read those stories so I don't know if the dragon and the lance are actually related, and if they are, if they are related in that way.
jobiwan7
Jedi Scholar
I was thinking that for attack 1 (flames), the rider would sit, but for attack 2 (melee), the rider would fire his arrows. How does that sound?
GIDustin
Emperor
Well, as I said in another thread, while the unit creator has the models and can make anims easily from it, I think EVERY unit should be made with 5-6 alternate attacks so that modders can use them as they want. For this unit I can see the following attacks:
Dragon lands, uses claws
Dragon spits fire
Rider fires arrow (or bolt or spear)
For death, you could have:
Dragon dies, rider dies from fall
Dragon dies, falls upside down ontop of rider
Rider dies, Dragon flees
If the modder made all 3 attacks and all 3 deaths, then we can have a wide variety of animation instead of the same thing every time. (on a mod by mod basis, not during the same game)
GIDustin
Dragon lands, uses claws
Dragon spits fire
Rider fires arrow (or bolt or spear)
For death, you could have:
Dragon dies, rider dies from fall
Dragon dies, falls upside down ontop of rider
Rider dies, Dragon flees
If the modder made all 3 attacks and all 3 deaths, then we can have a wide variety of animation instead of the same thing every time. (on a mod by mod basis, not during the same game)
GIDustin
tjedge1
Writer of writerly things
Originally posted by Kal-el
I was thinking the same thing.
Of course there are the Dragonlance novels, and I assume that that means those guys were fighting with lances on dragons, but I never read those stories so I don't know if the dragon and the lance are actually related, and if they are, if they are related in that way.
I never thought of that. I read a few of these books, but never the ones that had to do with the dragon wars. The books I read everyone talked about the dragons being extinct. I never thought how they came up with the name for those books.BTW: I stand corrected. In all aspects, the ranged attack of bows would be far better than a lance or pike.
Wyrmshadow
Deity
The significance of the Dragonlance was that it was made of Dragon Metal, a special metal that came from the body of the slain dragon Wyrmfather (I think). The dragonlance was the only mortal weapon that could puncture the scales of a dragon and kill it, but it would only be weild by a man of pure heart, a Solamnic Knight, otherwise the lance would shatter.
Wyrmshadow
Deity
here is a good illustration of the size of a Dragonlance.
jobiwan7
Jedi Scholar
That looks cool! Could you make it?
Wyrmshadow
Deity
I dont have the capability
Kinboat
Conan the Librarian
Since I have the dragon model and animations as well as a saddle fit for the dragon I'll put this onto my list. As long as I still have my animation files it won't be too hard (or long) but if I've deleted the files it will be quite a while.
