Can anyone create a add on to show both equipped weapons at once?

Cladius30

Wondering if it's possible to show my bow on my back but still show my two melee weapons on my sides at the same time? Add on anyone?

ArchMikem

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/376865/show-both-equipped-weapons-at-the-same-time

And I don't believe an Addon has the power to do that. At best all they do is mess with the User Interface, making little additions that run off of already existing code and such in the game. What we want would have to mess with Character Models and deciding what renders etc.

Cladius30

It's to bad they didn't just design it showing everything equipped. . Don't know why they didn't to begin with..? Are they worried about appearance clipping?

starkerealm

Probably.

One of the mods from Skyrim I really miss in ESO is the Equipping overhaul. Sure, it had issues, but your character looked geared up for anything.

MakoFore

yeah its a performance thing, and having a character have two staffs, or two shields on thier back would be cluttered, I think Witcher 3 does it wel- you can see weapons , etc , talismans all there. but this is something that s not going to come unfortunaltely for practucal and technical reasons.

ShadowDisciple

They could make different weapon stack. Dual wield and bow for example. If the weapons share same space on the model then it cant be done without being clunky. Would not mind a Dual Wield and Bow /w Quiver.

Kimba_Do

So, this?

Cladius30

I wouldn't care if things got clipped. I would rather they clipped and showed all weapons 's then they just disappear.

FakeFox

I asked for that on the ESOUI form a while ago and was told it is not possilbe.

Cladius30

How is it not possible? They managed to have add-ons in skyrim which is a lot older that allowed you to show all weapons. Of course they can do it.

starkerealm

Cladius30 wrote: »

How is it not possible? They managed to have add-ons in skyrim which is a lot older that allowed you to show all weapons. Of course they can do it.

Skyrim is, in fact, a different engine.

I know, Bethesda keeps saying, "no, no, really guys, this time we made a new engine." Then it gets released and, turns out, it's still Gamebyro.

That said, ESO does run on a new engine. It's not the Bethesda Gamebryo fork at all. So, just because something's possible over there, doesn't mean it can happen in ESO.

Cladius30

Well it seems to be an over looked pattern in all games

Cladius30

I guess at least we get a quiver on our back in wow they don't even show quivers. How lame. You literally pull arrows off of nothing on your back lol

starkerealm

Cladius30 wrote: »

Well it seems to be an over looked pattern in all games

Yeah, it's a really cool touch in games that include it. I'd love to see it in ESO, though I understand if it's simply not possible.

Sigtric

Cladius30 wrote: »

How is it not possible? They managed to have add-ons in skyrim which is a lot older that allowed you to show all weapons. Of course they can do it.

Skyrim is a single player game where all of the code is located on your own machine. Mod makers can manipulate almost all files for the game in some way or another.

ESO on the other hand has a lot of code and data that resides on a server. Mods can only make use of a limited data set (displaying data sent to you from the server rather than manipulating actual code) because everyone has to run the same build of the game.

Cladius30

I guess if it was designed from the beginning to be done it could have. The question is why didn't they?

Sigtric

Cladius30 wrote: »

I guess if it was designed from the beginning to be done it could have. The question is why didn't they?

Because it is an online game where everyone needs to run the same version of the game, and to help limit the ability for people to create cheats.

MMOs do not work the same way single player games do and it was done on purpose for a good reason.

The add-ons we have for ESO do not modify the game code in any way. They only draw information that is being sent to our clients and any graphical elements are an overlay of sorts on the game.

A mod Author would have to attach things to your character model to make it work, and that would be tampering with integral game files. It's not going to happen.

Cladius30

Your just all this aren't you?
I guess you don't like my discussion lol

Cladius30

All I'm saying is at some point this could have been done. Would have been good.