I’m getting near the finish line in more ways that one: The Compact Compliance Club (tentative name?) is nearing completion, but Christmas is just around the corner, which is giving me just about everything: anxiety, stress, bellyaches…

On the baton side of things, I’ve done a solid amount of work, the LOD models, animations, script, HUD, holster. I’m still hung up on the impact sounds and I still need to make the bruises for the Doodle & Strikes integration.

It’s really simple, behavior wise: When collapsed you can gesture the baton around, but you can’t hit anyone (it still does the swish sounds). If you do a hard hit (click and hold) that will deploy the baton’s extension, and from that point on you can hit people with the light and hard hits if they are in front of you. Retracting the baton, requires clicking the baton body at the moment.

The holster also keeps track of whether the baton was deployed/retracted if you use the temp attach feature (and it shows visually).