Combatives

Crawl Pose & Compatibility Update

This release improves the visual presentation of crawling while removing a potential mod compatibility issue caused by Combatives' player pose synchronization.

Changes

• Improved the land crawling pose

  • Added a rendering-only distinction between land crawling and swimming while retaining the shared underlying pose mechanics.
  • Reworked the resting arm and leg positioning to produce a more appropriate prone crawling silhouette instead of the previous swimming pose.
  • Actual swimming retains its existing animation and appearance.

• Improved crawl grounding

  • Corrected the order of the crawl grounding and prone rotation transforms.
  • The four-pixel grounding adjustment now lowers the rendered player in world space instead of unintentionally shifting the rotated model along its local depth axis.
  • Leveled the legs with the prone torso for a cleaner resting pose.

• Corrected crawl head orientation

  • Counter-rotated the head against the body's prone rotation so looking straight ahead keeps the player's face forward and above the terrain.
  • Preserved normal player look pitch while crawling and during pose transitions.

• Removed the player pose DataWatcher allocation

  • Combatives no longer reserves player DataWatcher ID 28, preventing collisions with other mods using the same watcher slot.
  • Player pose is now maintained through Combatives' existing owned player state and packet synchronization.
  • Existing owner/tracker synchronization and geometry recalculation behavior is preserved.

• Preserved existing gameplay behavior

  • Crawl collision, movement, camera behavior, targeting, and interaction geometry remain unchanged.
  • Swimming behavior remains separate from the new land-crawl rendering adjustments.
  • Existing MPM geometry composition and third-party renderer compatibility boundaries are retained.

This release primarily focuses on making the crawl pose look properly prone, grounded, and forward-facing, while improving compatibility with mods that allocate additional player DataWatcher entries.