Help regarding hand models/hand objects

[Juras]

Alright, firstly, if you want to have a custom "lantern" or arms you will need to make a full conversion.

The way the hand and the lantern in Amnesia works is basically the lantern is attached to one of the arm's bone joints, the "attachpoint" joint which is located in the palm of the hand. The amnesia lantern has a handle as a submesh which makes it possible for the lantern to swing when player is moving around, but it's not necessary. If you go to the lantern folder you will see that there's a file called "lantern.ho" which you can open with notepad++ or a similiar program. That file is basically the "settings" of how the lantern is attached. The position, rotation, scale and some other options that you can tweak. Unfortunetely, if you want your arm position to be like you showed you're going to need to make custom animations for the arm in maya(you can get the student version for free so no need to buy it). There simply is no other way cause you can't rotate the arm using HPL2 tools. Here's a custom flashlight and an arm that I made for a guy who's making a mod for Amnesia: http://www.moddb.com/mods/bleed-with-me/...m#imagebox . I made a new arm model (you can use Amnesia one and just make new animations for it instead), used the same bones as amnesia one had and then animated so that the fingers and the arm would look like that. Then I made a flashlight (no submeshes, just one mesh) and the guy attached it using the .ho file. Anyway, this is all I know about making custom arm/lantern. It's possible and actually not that hard if you know how to animate. The hardest part is making the .ho file settings perfect to make a new flashlight's/lantern's position/size perfect. Atleast that's what the guy that used the new stuff that I made told me.

Hope I helped in some way and that you learned something aswell, and if you have any more questions, feel free to ask