improved archer animation/form

i remember some time ago that i started a thread on archer form in which i explained and show example pictures. i can't seem to find that old thread, so i'll start a new one.

recently the minning animation was changed to be more realistic (i guess). so i thought to myself, why not make a more realistic archer animation? so here it is! just think, your runescape character could shoot like this. instead of that lame what ever you call it animation. ( i would call it " way worse than i've ever seen a new shooter try and do" animation)

i made a sig :) for those interested.

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:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: WOW NICE ANIMATION!!!!

that's really good, jagex should definitely do that (wow again) =D> =D>

yeah its just a gif. nothing fancy about it.

what i wanted to point out here mainly was the form. instead of me trying to explain it, i will post a link that has the info if you are interested. well i'll stop talking, you can take a look for yourself

http://www.kslinternationalarchery.com/ ... e-USA.html

btw, sorry i cant spell archer right in the thread title.

that's very good, and much better than most of the other threads on here. i think it is a bit harder than that, though, as the animation needs to take into account longbows and composite bows. admittedly, it would only take a tiny bit of tweaking to change what you have there to make it work for any bow. well done for taking the time to come up with an alternative. right now, i'm going to go and shoot some arrows to compare the two.

composite bows

bah, be a man, take the training wheels off. :)

yes, well, i know i will get much more out of runescape if an animation like this was used.

escuse me, but i've seen this fiddle emoticon a few time now and i've been dying to use it. so here it is for no reason :boohoo: :boohoo: :boohoo: :boohoo: :boohoo: :boohoo:

ty, back on topic now.

Amazing animation. Jagex should really put this animation in and take out the old one.

this belongs in suggestions i think

i almost forgot, if anyone would like to use this animation for anything else, feel free to go ahead, but make sure to give credit please.

ex: in offical jagex forums where only members can post *cough*

Belongs in Suggestions, but I love that new animation! Much more realistic! :thumbsup:

:arrow: Awsome idea!

100% support.

That is a really good animation, but the hand should be up a little bit towards the ear. Also, raise the elbow up a bit, it would make it more realistic.

Even with those two nitpicks, it is an amazing animation. This is much more realistic. Much better than the pull the invisible string and arrow and the arrow spawns out of no where in mid flight.

Kewl.

Your animation's got a few glitches, which I will try to fix up if you want; but the idea itself, put me on the support list. Seeing as how I'm a bit of a fan of archery in real life, I'd like to see them get it right.

recently the minning animation was changed to be more realistic (i guess). ]

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That is a really good animation, but the hand should be up a little bit towards the ear. Also, raise the elbow up a bit, it would make it more realistic.

i'm not old school, i use the biomechanically efficient shooting technique, this is the 21st century guys, no need to use 17th century techniques.

but thinkin bout it, all the bows in game are barebows, which require old school technique. i dunno, i'm just not much of a fan of old school.

@Flametropper

sure bud go ahead and do whatever you want to it. Do you want me to send you all the individual frames, or can you pull then out urself?

well first amazing animation how did you make it. And secound its a good point maybe jagex are planning on doing something likw that it wqould only be fair to anyway

Looks cool, but don't you think it takes pretty long time to shoot just one arrow? I know it's more realistic but it would take ages to kill something.

pretty long time to shoot just one arrow?

yeah heaven forbid that you should have to take some time to aim. nah just pull er back n let er go. itll hit something.

one quick thing i wanna say about the animation:

it's great. amazingly great. but his arm grows about five times thicker when he first reaches forward to dock (i think it's called docking... maybe it's nocking?) the arrow.

nocking

i know its not perfect, but ingame (with the 3D model) the arm will easily reach across the body. it should at least.

Itsa cool animation and stuff but imagine how long range will take if this is introduced.. :-k

Good job on that. I don't mind the current one but maybe if they just added to show your character actually putting the arrow on the bow on the current one. Because when you shoot now the arrows appears out of nowhere.

pretty long time to shoot just one arrow?

 

 

 

yeah heaven forbid that you should have to take some time to aim. nah just pull er back n let er go. itll hit something.

LOL! :lol:

I think the animation is very good. Deffinately more realistic than the blind shot with no arrow...

Looks good, I like it better than current one at any rate.

bump bump sorry.

looks like i made the file size of the sig just a little to big.

woooooowo that is such a cool animation and such acool idea 100% support and im not even an archer