Battle Realms Melee Pack

Description
And here I thought I was the only active sword modeller 'round these parts. But my master has shown himself, finally, and released some of his swords! If you're into oriental swords, you'll definitely want to take a look here. Apparently this pack was initially intended for the Battle Realms mod, but apparently that's gone bottom up so Trauma has decided to release it on his own, and I'm sure quite a few people will be glad for that.

There are quite a good number of weapons in this pack. Since I'm not up on my oriental weapons, I'm not going to try describing them lest I sound like a dunce, so I'll just let Trauma's read-me do the work for me:
[quote]A variety of oriental weapons, all of them modified to have certain attributes
depending on your fighting style you will want to use only a few of these,
all these weapons have balanced attributes, for example, those that are fast
have diminished capacity to inflict damage, and those are shorter have the capacity
to parry and block easier, just like in real life =D

Included in this pack is:
A wide long sword
Two staves of similar design
A katana
A wakizashi
A ninjato
A battle fan intended for dual using
A crescent-shaped blade intended for dual using
A large katana
A large wide sword[/quote]Now as for critiquing this, I'm going to start out by saying the texturing could be better. Trauma is, by his own admission, not an A+ texturer, but these weapons look just fine in-game so I doubt any but the pickiest critiquers would care much about the texturing. His blade textures always look very nice.

My personal favorite is the fan. It's so simple, yet so incredibly amusing... I was actually going to make one myself until I discovered Trauma had already beaten me to it. I do absolutely love the large blade draw sound. I may even steal it... ;)

I did find one bug, however. It seems when you use the fan (at least) the ready animation is supposed to be the button hold animation. Unfortunately it seems to loop...

Overall a great pack. Enough variety for anyone, and plenty of orientalness for any ninja or oriental weapon fan. Once again a great pack by Trauma Sensei, and I hope to see more in the future.

~Inyri