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Maybe that's the secret - just make all the weapons absurdly huge (they...  basically are, really)

The end result will of course be that they are also crazy valuable and heavy, but that doesn't seem too unrealistic.

Let me see if I can get a more side-by-side image, but they are about as long as their wielders, generally, although not as thick all around as a person.  I could see them being like half person-size, though.  I myself found Size 900 to be an oddly small amount and had upped it since then (I've been updating the mod, originally made by Iados, with his permission), but maybe they just need to be absolutely enormous.



Here's one being swung away from the body, which at least gives a different perspective.  Most of the other weapons are of similar size in some regard - Greatswords and Switch Axes are probably the next biggest, then Long Swords (about as long as Great Swords, but thinner), then Lances and Gunlances (some of these may actually be bigger than longswords, especially the Gunlances), with Swords being the smallest (about the size of a regular arming sword or short sword) among the melee weapons - swords designed to be used with shields are usually slightly bigger than the swords used in dual pairs, but since you can't force a weapon to be used with a shield I just sort of lumped them into one category.

Thanks, Dirst!  That helps a lot.  I think SHELL technically already exists - Armadillo uses the tissue template for its shell, along with a few others - so that part should be easy.

Hey guys, wondering a couple things I could use help on in developing new creatures for the MHU mod.

1.  How do I apply a template to only one part of a creature?  I'm working on a creature with armored fore-arms, and I want to represent this by giving its lower arms the SHELL template, like an armadillo uses for its shell.
2.  What's the appropriate RELSIZE tag to give a quadruped claws that are double the normal size?  Part of the same critter.  Likewise, if I want bunny-esque ears, that would be a matter of simply giving its ears a bigger RELSIZE tag on the creature level, right?

High velocity makes everything better, so giving a weapon attacks with a high velocity, especially with low prepare/recovery times, would make it really powerful.

As far as it goes, if it's in the entity as a WEAPON, they can forge it whenever it pleases.  However, one thing you COULD do is make a weapon and assign it to no entity.  This would make it possible for it to be produced as an Artifact, but ONLY as an artifact - as artifacts are chosen randomly from the appropriate entries (that's why dwarves can make artifact bows and other weapons dwarves can't normally forge).  The more other weapons you have, the less likely it is to be forged, though.

It does indeed.  I can always use more ways to terrorize my dwarves.

Forgive me if this is an impertinent question, but how interlocking are all the raws here?  Are raws lined up in fairly simple ways?  For example, if I want to borrow certain features of Direforged, it's mostly easy because by and large all his new creations are clearly marked and delineated so that I can tell what affects what.  I love a ton of the creatures in this mod, but adding the ones I like to my own personal play-set is somewhat difficult because of the sheer volume of raws, so I was wondering if there's a clear naming pattern I can use to isolate the raws I need for any individual element of the mod.

Of course, I suppose I could just merge over most of the features from Direforged (which DOES have very well named and separated RAWs) and play things that way.

Thanks a lot for taking this on, Wim.  I have no internet right now (I just visit the local library a lot) so it's great to see that the mod carries on.  Looking forward to seeing this grow.

So I see the elves are using Sindarin, and that you've got a language file for the Black Speech.  I assume the Dwarven language is likewise LotR-style Dwarven, not the Urists of the base game.

Question, though - have you done anything with the human language?  If you have, did you have any source to work off of?  I've never found any resources on Westron.