Animal Projectile Possible?

[noobonthisforum]

Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to incorporate projectile weapons into animal as body parts i.e. incendiary launcher into a lizard head?

[SpaceDorf]

Not at the moment, or not easily.

See the discussion in this mod for better reference :

https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=17087.300

[skullywag]

its turning out to be a major pain the ass to mod in, it didnt used to be, but it is now. The thinktree handling for animals is a little tricky and doesnt really work the way the xml thinktrees would have you think. Feel free to try it but ive hit 1 blockage after another, I would welcome a second pair of eyes looking at it.

[noobonthisforum]

Ah no worries. I've got little experience in modding but just made a dragon mod with loads of errors  but I was thinking of making a completely new body type by adding a new part in the head or body, I would try and do this myself but I wouldn't know where to start

[The-Eroks]

Why not setup animals as "human-likes" for the purpose of assigning them a projectile weapon?

If we wanted a spitting cobra, wouldn't it be essentially the same as have the cobra be setup as a human-like and equip it with a "venom sack" weapon that fired venom spikes?

Are there limfacts to this approach that I'm not familiar with?

[AngleWyrm]

maybe we could make animals into projectiles...

[The-Eroks]

@AngleWyrm... I will endeavor to make this a thing

[Vlad0mi3r]

maybe we could make animals into projectiles...

That's actually what I thought when I first read the title. A Boomrat launcher similar to a mortar but uses boomrats or boomalopes for ammo.

[Canute]

Don't we got this allready ?
Pod launcher, load these animals at the pods, and launch them at the enemy siege/preparing area.