Missing Attack Animation (Human Sorcerer with Spear-Staff)

Wakukee

Current Behavior: When I attack from "in front of" a target, my character (a human sorcerer, with the robes of the good archmagi) disappears, showing only a levitating spear attacking. This does not happen with other weapons or other characters of different body types.

Expected Behavior: Animation is displayed properly.

Jace

OBSERVED BEHAVIOR: For some obscure reason, if and only if Edwin is specifically wearing a Robe of the Evil Archmagi, his sprite will briefly disappear every time he executes the forward thrust animation with a quarterstaff. I could not however make this happen with my own human male mage wearing the same equipment.

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR: Edwin doesn't phase out during forward thrusts with a quarterstaff while wearing a Robe of the Evil Archmagi.

Avenger_teambg

Yeah, believe or not, this is a genuine BG2 bug. We couldn't restore the resource because it was never made.
It is happening only with certain facing directions.

Tresset

That actually sounds kind of cool.

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Gallowglass

Occasionally that happened in original BG1, but it seems that no-one has yet managed to fix it. In fact, I think it now happens more often than in the original version. I think it's specific to using a staff.

Of course something rather like that is actually meant to happen if the staff happens to be the Staff of the Magi ... but I assume that you haven't yet found a portal to the Twisted Rune's pocket plane?!

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Luigirules

Isn't this because the "mage" paperdoll has no attack animation for spears, since mages can't use spears?

TJ_Hooker

Luigirules said:

Isn't this because the "mage" paperdoll has no attack animation for spears, since mages can't use spears?

I think that spears use the same animations as staves. The only difference is that spears always use the thrust animation, while staves only use it some of the time.

Tresset

@Luigirules what about fighter->mage dual class?
Or multi class...

Luigirules

Fighter/mages use the "fighter" paperdoll.

That's why they never look right when they wear mage robes.

Tresset

Wouldn't this one be somewhat hard to fix with the loss of the source art?

Yovaneth

No - just a long drawn-out ballsache for someone to make new animations. And no - I'm not volunteering!

Wakukee

The thing is, I never saw this bug before the lastest patch. I used the spear for weeks without ever running into the problem, since I usually am casting spells!