Never-released weapon...help!

[Chris-Craig Michaels]

OK, the good news:
I have discovered a never-released Core-made weapon, a single magnum pistol of increadible power. It was the prototype of the TR3 Desert Eagle. I want to use it in my upcoming levels, sort of like a special extra close to the final battle. Anyone can get this powerful pistol, by extracting the WAD from the TR3 title.

The bad news:
I can't seem to get it to work right. I can get it to show up in the inventory, and I can pick up the gun and its ammo, but when I have Lara draw it, she does this funny little dance and then holds it out to the side like James Bond. Cool, except that when she fires, she holds the gun through her own back! Not a very comfortable position. How can I get this to work right? I can't seem to be able to get the animation right. Please, help me:). You can get the original WAD containing the pistol at Wee Bald man's Unmodified WAD resource, under "TR3 Title." Thanks in advance for your help!

[Litepulsar]

Have you tried using the weapon's mesh in place of the pistol? I'm not sure if that would work but....

[prjsaves]

Hi

Replace the animation meshes with the new weapon -

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Wadmerger > right side open up WBM wad > left side open a wad with Sixshooter in it > Select the new weapon in right side ? Hold ALT and press the copy to button.

This would change the look. But it won't be more powerful than the Sixshooter though.
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You could also change the animations in Wadmerger to look right.
Much harder to do.
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You could also change the meshes by extracting the DXF with strpix then importing it inplace of another weapon.

[Alias]

Also in that wad or in another TR3 wad has the Harpongun ;)

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[prjsaves]

Hi

I tried this last night (extracted from title WAD) and created a WAD with :-

new gun flash
auto pistols (lara's holsters are not correct)
Harpoon gun
Machine gun
Rocket launcher (carried underarm - very strange)
Desert eagle prototype (looks more like a grenade gun I thought)
Changed the look of the ammo for each
Changed the look of the big Medi Kit
Also changed the pickup for each weapon to look like the correct weapon

At the moment I have just changed the look of sixshooter to look like the prototype gun. I doubt it's any better than the Sixshooter ?

If you wish I can mail it to you but maybe would be best putting it on a search database along with some traps that I have made.

[Tomo]

This object of the TR3 title is the granadegun from TR2. ;)

Tomo

[Chris-Craig Michaels]

Well, if you, prjsaves, could either post it on the internet, or send it to me, please do! PM me if you are going to send it post a reply if you are going to post it! I don't care if it is more powerful than the Desert Eagle, I just really like how it looks:).Thanks!
Tomo, I don't think it is the grenade gun. If you look, there is also a grenade gun in the WAD that looks more like the TR3 grenade gun. But who knows? I havn't played TR2 in a long time:). You are probably right.