A brief summary about this mod Options

[Galactygon]

This mod is aimed for turning the dreams of a good many modders into a released mod. This mod ports all of the creature animations from all IE games (BG1: TotSC, PS:T, IWD: HoW, and IWD2) into one big download for BG2: ToB.

Rather than the well-known way of adding a few "addable" entries to the ANIMATE.IDS, this mod uses a different (and impractical) way; it uses the weapon animations of existing creature entries.

Although the idea was first brought by Max (or Potencius), it wasn't really tried (in fact, it wasn't tried at all) until I decided to give it a shot. Then I found myself working for an actual goal ~ a released mod.

There are (of course, as in every method) a few flaws in this "new way"; the largest one is the part dealing with death animations. The weapons animations the creatures use don't have them. When they (the creatures) die, the creatures disappear, leaving no corpse behind.

Thus, I am dividing the mod into 3 parts:

Part 1 will deal with creature animations ported from IWD1: HoW, IWD2, and BG1
Part 2 will deal with creature animations ported from PS:T
Part 3 will deal with the death animation, and some various corrections to the creatures (ie making the Pit Fiend look more PnP-like, etc.)

Questions are more than welcome; in fact, they are encouraged, so ask away.

-Galactygon

[T.G.Maestro]

Have you thought of Belhifet?

Nope. I wonder why you think that unique devil animation would be fitting at the first place.
To be honest, that wouldn't be any more fitting than the current one. Anyway, there ARE perfect animations for Pit Fiends, but not in these IE games - Diablo2 and Lionheart would be my choice.

The mod CAN work without the death animation (right now, the creature disappears in a flash if you kill it), and as I mentioned in an earlier post somewhere in the forum, I am hatching some plans to overcome that issue.

I know it can work without it, but it just isn't right. I mean, a slain enemy disappears in a flash of light? Eh.
As I said in my earlier post, I'm very interested in those plans you keep hatching to overcome this issue.
I'm counting on your success though!