Modding for the sword

[ZestyPasta]

Fuck me if this has already been asked and if there's a wiki page about this, but I've searched multiple times.
How do you mod the weapon models? I want to make a katana in place of the sword, but I don't know what software to use and how. Do I use blender? Anywho I apologize in advance if this has already been answered.

[blakthunder]

Basically you'd need to make the physical model in a 3d modeling package (blender, wings3d, 3dsmax, whatever), animate it (not wings3d, but blender, maybe 3dsmax), rig it, tag it and use a script to export it to a cube 2 supported format, e.g. iqm or md5. Once you have the model ready, you'd need to create a texture (also done in the modeling package, typically) then write the configuration file for it.

For your purposes, you just need to replace the sword mesh file (I believe it's an md5 mesh) with a properly-prepared katana model. This means having tags for the handle and end of the blade, or something like that. There's not much documentation on modeling/animating for cube 2 other than looking at already existing works.

[SniperGoth]

I have a katana model made that i use when playing RE sometimes. Maybe you can use it, but it has no kind of "tags" on it because i never understood how that works :p

[ZestyPasta]