@nargil66 more like pressure plate traps 

Wow, I didn't knew it's even possible. Indiana Jones style, eh? What about a huge rolling ball... or darts spitting from the wall... just daydreaming here

MODDING TUTORIALS A-Z:

Here are some tutorials, old and new, to help those who want to try modding. All are converted to PDF.

Download Folder: https://mega.nz/#F!JbpDHI4I!5eH2N0-Y1uuRPGsLTprjKg

Also, a link to the Modding Guides section in the main TQ Fandom Wiki:

https://titanquest.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Tutorials

List of included tutorials up to this moment:

From titanquest.net and other forums:

1. 51 Things to Know in Modding by HandballFreak.pdf
2. Adding a Miniboss to Unique Proxy by Bumbleguppy.pdf
3. Adding Effects to Animations by Bumbleguppy.pdf
4. Beginner's Guide to PSEditor by Asylum101.pdf
5. Building Changes into the Main Database by Poinas.pdf
6. Changing the Game Fonts by Heron.pdf
7. Create a Custom Item and Get it Ingame by Asylum101.pdf
8. Editing the Records by Sonny.pdf
9. Extract Wireframes from Existing Models by daloonie.pdf
10. Getting Started on Your Own Map by BlackHitman84.pdf
11. How to Create a Custom Mastery by Poinas.pdf
12. How to Make Your Own Mastery by HeavyMetalFreak.pdf
13. How to Setup ArtManager by Asylum101.pdf
14. Making a Difficulty Mod by Munderbunny.pdf
15. Modding the Titan Quest UI by Kirii.pdf
16. Play as Monster Mods by Poinas.pdf
17. Quest Modding from A to Z by Tarim.
18. Titan Quest Mechanics.pdf
19. Tutorial Collection by Talon.pdf

From this forum (only strarted converting them):

1. Add a Custom Monster by WNG.pdf
2. Add a New Weapon by WNG.pdf

The Gaming Tools with links are added to the first post. Some descriptions are still missing.
Damn, I liked having 1111 posts, lol.

The tools update is started (see the first post). Now all tools are on display with separate links. For now I added only the modding tools, gaming tools are coming next, as well as tutorials. About 3rd party programs (not directly related to TQ) - ill post them in a new thread.

Trick #4 - Transfering bones between meshes

Do you know what mesh rigging and skinning is? I didnt knew neither of those terms untill recently.

Rigging - Rigging is the process of setting up the skeleton in a model. It includes linking the bones in a hierarchy, setting constraints on the bones' movement, and setting up controls (which are aids for the animator).

Skinning - Skinning is the process of attaching vertexes to bones. Skinning also refers to an animation technique where a model is animated using a skeleton (primarily when a vertex may be influenced by more than one bone).

What does this has to do with Mesh View, you may ask? Well, MeshView allows you to edit, replace or even rewrite the skeletal structure of a mesh, which affects 3 things: the shape of the mesh, its animation, and last but not least important - its attach points.
Transferring bones from one mesh to another is pretty simple actually. All you have to do is this:



In this example the bones of a nymph are being replaced with human female bones. The mesh appearance will not change much, but its animations/attach points... I'm pretty sure after some adjustments the nymph can wear human armors. I'll show some examples later.

@icefreeze I already did . This normal horse is just for testing. You're right, the Hades horse is more epic.
I gave up on the wheels for now, will try again another time. Today ill try finishing the animations (for bow/staff/thrown only).

@botebote77  Your formula idea sounds good... dodge % is calculated in the same way, yes? I would do it, only if i knew how.

@icefreeze Yes, my intention is to make it a playing character mod... and ofcourse a mummy uber boss in Deities. Probably in the Valley of the Kings or Giza, where is more open space.
About the turning horses, i found something like an answer in 3dsmax (called attachment constraints). I'm pretty sure its possible, only it will take time to learn how to do it... i'm not the fastest learner for things like this.
About 1 horse chariot - historically a chariot is driven by 2, 4 or 6 horses. I think to stick to that, and it looks cooler imo.

Added a few more bow animations, including the 90 degrees turning ones. It still looks wooden, but at least the horses are moving when they turn.

Another problem is the wheels are not spinning... but there is a possible fix for that. Since i dont know how to rig and skin a mesh yet, i have another plan. The plan is - make both wheels invisible (delete texture). Then find something in the game that can spin... like a wheel or a spinning cylinder or something (if someone has seen such an object, in the old game or Ragnarok, let me know). Next step, if i do find the object is making it invisible and attaching it 1 or 2 times at the place of the two invisible wheels. Then I'll take and combine its spinning animation with that of the charioteer and the horses. The final step would be attaching the wheels again, this time as a visible decoration (the games allows attaching mesh over mesh over mesh only when the final one is a decoration template, otherwise it will crash). The attached visible wheels will use the animation of the parent spinning mesh, while the original wheels will be invisible. I think it can work.

Man Nargil, some extremely cool stuff!

Thanks bro, I hope it goes well (I'm not certain yet)

Update on the charioteer - the pulling idea didnt work good, because all attachments that were connected to bones became messed up when i moved them. I gave up on the idea and just returned to the old push variant.
The other problem is with combining the animations - this time it went very bad. Good news are its possible to "stretch" animation frames in 3dsmax or to reduce them. I'll try that with the horses and make their animation speed a little slower, to be able to combine it later using Tamchi's Composer with more types of existing animations.