Where can I find this in-game? (And it's not Valkyrie)

This is driving me mad. Now I know that demoediting can manage some nifty stuff, but I can NOT find out how Aralcox pulled this one off. It's gotta be in-game SOMEWHERE.

Somehow he managed to get a character to have a katana slung across her back, the way Valkyrie has that spear. But I've demorecorded Valkyrie, and that's apparently part of her default costume. So no command for it.



Here it is from another angle:



And a third:



Do any other NPCs have this? High ranking Ninja mooks? ANYTHING that hs a weapon of any type slung across its back? (Coz replacing the Weapon FX isn't that hard.) I have looked and looked, and I cannot find it.

NOTE: Aralcox first uploaded NIGHT PRAYERS (this vid) in Nov 2007... so right before issue 11. That's not to say the same effect hasn't appeared since then in other models, but whatever it was, it's been around since BEFORE Nov 2007.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

The Jounin (Ninjas Lieutenant pets) have katanas across their backs, as well as all the different Knives of Artemis mobs. Off the top of my head, these are the only NPCs that have them.

EDIT: Infernal also has an axe across his back. Forgot about him <.<;

EDIT 2: Now that I look at it again, the katana across the woman's back and the ones on the Jounin look really similar. And unless I miss my guess, the ninjas get more katanas given the amount of upgrades they get. So she could be using something from the base or first tier upgraded Jounin.

ARGH!

You nailed it, El... The original jounin has ONE katana across his back... the upgraded has TWO. But of ALL the mastermind upgrades, that is one of the ONLY ones that involves a separate FX on the model, rather than modifying the model itself (like the bandana on the Commando, for example).

I feel like such an IDIOT. But then again, I've never gotten a Ninja MM that high, either!

Thank you so much, El!

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Probably not Infernal, IIRC his axe is baked into his character model. Jounin is likely your best bet, maybe you can apply the upgrade FX to an arbitrary model?

Other ideas are an invisible NPC with the rotation angles tweaked, but I shudder to think of the work that would be involved to keep it synced with the animation. You might also try putting the weapon geo itself in the back slot of the character's costume data

Slight threadjack, but this reminds me that I need to demorecord maelstrom sometime, since the jerk somehow manages to have his pistols disappear from their holsters when he draws them...

EDIT: Lol, my usual timing

Hey, I don't mind if others use this thread to post similar effects/democode questions. I'm sure other folks have gone, "How the hell have they done that?!" when it comes to vids, or want to know a weapon code, or somesuch.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite