Hey, folks. I'm working on redoing the energy sword (with animations) for the spartan, and I wonder if anyone else has done this or if I should just go ahead and finish up what I've already had in mind to do now for the past few days.

Also, I recorded a video tutorial, part one, on how to animate in first-person (for weapons). I was going to record myself doing the energy sword animations as the second part of the tutorial.

More info here: http://www.macgamingmods.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=18242

So I wonder if anyone else here has done first-person model and animations for the Energy Sword to be used by the spartan. I'm wondering about the original model used by the elites in the game, which is what I'm using.

I've got a cappy halo reach version one but it's definitely a WIP and not ready to be releasdd. I haven't looked at it in a really long time though

There are countless variations of the energy sword that people have done. Some more polished than others. Ive modded Halo PC to have an energy sword once in FP. The model is really meant for third person only. It looks pretty bad up close. I actually just set up my own for the spartan/odst. I animated it myself. Using OS I was able to pull of a pretty good version of it, that is worth using in the game. However I have a more high poly model. The sword shouldn't be something hard to model at all. All you really need is some smoothed-out edges on the blade, which Halo 1's sword doesn't have, and some believable shaders. Search halomaps for Energy sword. A lot of them will come up. Although to see a good version of it id go into a map by Z team or something similar.

I've done animations for both first person and third person.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77hpMw2H-vY&feature=plcp FP (it's in game in my team's map)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjku3Rv1cTQ&feature=plcp The 3p anims have been updated to people's crits.