Idk while I appreciate player model variety I think having an animal model in games like Lazer tag and virus is both not evenly fair and is pretty bad on the optics (shooting animals)
With lazer tag it already makes everyone a non-workshop player model. Not sure what to do about virus and possibly SDNL when it gets released. Maybe just not allow that model type into that gamemode?
There are already animal models on the workshop, they just donāt have working back legs. Thereās nothing to stop that; this just suggests giving them more fluidity, more life to their animations. If thereās ever a situation where you need to shoot a player with a workshop model, thereās no way to prevent it being āan animalā.
However, as Skorados said: Lazer Tag already switches your models away from the workshop models.
And, as far as Virus is concerned, your model is switched away from the workshop model when you get infected, and thereās no need for players to shoot one another, plus no harm that can come from it. The infected donāt shoot either, they just run and slap.
I am all for this suggestion. Itāll be a lot of work to reanimate all the walk/run cycles and emotes and such on the new rig, but wouldnāt it be awesome to see some cute puppies running around the plaza with bows in their hair- and being able to include animal pets from the workshop as NPCs in your condo!
