Weapon Sheaths

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Technical standpointtttttttttttttttttttttt!

The only sheathes that are in the game work for Elvaan M and Hume M GKT. The reason for this is that the sword/club skeleton bone is animated to ACT like a sheathe (possibly due to early dev or some NPCs having sheathes) but even then not every animation works with the sheathe. (support dropped mid development/no npcs would be doing said animations) Sometimes you'll see the sheathe popping back onto the GKT.

To explain further say Tachi Gekko for instance, the Great Katana has animation for that, however the sword does not have an animation in Tachi Gekko, thus if something is weighted to the sword bone, it will simply show up on the floor between your legs.

So to put this in they would have to redo every animation for every weapon that would have a sheathe. If more than just GKT were to have a sheathe, they would probably not have any choice but to add more bones into the skeletons of PCs, which would be a hassle (probably just as much of a hassle). Beyond modifying every animation for weapons, they'd have to edit all of the emotes and other things just to incorporate sheathes.

As for ranged weapons on back, im not entirely sure, I only ever (not really) messed with it a little bit and there is a call that hides certain weapons etc (for instance when you dance/cast your weapons disappear, this is that call in action, if you can confuse/overload so it doesnt do the call, you'll sometimes dance with weapons out). I totally photoshopped this picture



Which shows (if it werent a blatant photoshop) that animations can be edited to have the weapon on back, but I dont think I (totally dont know what im talking about) took out the correct hide weapon call, so its probably possible. But again if this were to happen, an entire animation overhaul would be in order (although it would probably be much easier than sheathes).

Is this beyond the FFXI team? No. Is it beyond what I think they would be willing to put forth this far into the game? Yeah, probably.

I think you'd be better off Poll-ing the return of /kiss, which was advertised in a POL email post card, but was never in the game.

(all that being said there are bones on the skeleton that the normal weapon bones are mothered to that follow a similar but not exact motion of the weapons, those might be able to be used, but still would need an overhaul of animations)