Adding iron sights?

[Biodude]

Hey everyone, I am making a game and I need help on making iron sights in it. Anyone know how?

[ceriux]

i was told good placement with animation XO

[Biodude]

so it HAS to be animation?

not weapon position changing with a impulse?

[ceriux]

dunno, thats just pretty much what i was told...

[MeTcHsteekle]

..well you could make it another model and switch it to that and back..or err..something

[Biodude]

errm, its just changing the weapon position i think. Cmon guys, you are one of 2 reliable quake 1 sites!

[Wazat]

errm, its just changing the weapon position i think. Cmon guys, you are one of 2 reliable quake 1 sites!

Not knowing what iron sights are, I fear my reply may have limited usefulness. I'm assuming you mean looking down the barrel of a gun or down a scope at the target.

To do this, you have several options. The most direct and compatible way is to change the player's .weaponmodel to the scope, or add the scope to the weapon model and have frames bringing it toward the player's face (and increasing its scale if necessary).

Another option is .viewmodelforclient, which is supported by many engines. It allows you to set any number of entities as the player's weapon models/hud/etc.

Other people here may know more options.

[Biodude]

0k, Ill see if I can combine some ideas to make this

iron sights is: http://www.gamereplays.org/community/up ... 803085.jpg

[GiffE]

You CAN make it without an animation. You would have to code your view model using DP's "viewmodelforclient" as then you can re position the model on screen and re-angle it.
Similar to how i made my free floating weapon (notice how the weapon moves around as I look around)

As far as I know you cannot adjust the viewmodel's position without remaking it with viewmodelforclient.
It will likely be easier for you to use animations if your system is not already setup like that.

[Biodude]

thanks for the advice, the video says it is private?

[avirox]

errm, its just changing the weapon position i think. Cmon guys, you are one of 2 reliable quake 1 sites!

Really? Which is the other one?

At any rate, what Wazat suggested, but also tweak the players' FOV by sending a stuffcmd. There's no way to get the DOF effect unless you do some engine hax0ry though.

[GiffE]

errm, its just changing the weapon position i think. Cmon guys, you are one of 2 reliable quake 1 sites!

Really? Which is the other one?

At any rate, what Wazat suggested, but also tweak the players' FOV by sending a stuffcmd. There's no way to get the DOF effect unless you do some engine hax0ry though.

sorry forgot the video was private (its an old one) its public now.
Yay we are reliable

[Downsider]

You could modify your engine to offset your weapons based on a few convars. Kurok's engine has this in for the weapons to slide up and down when you draw a weapon out, and I'm assuming you're working on the PSP.

[Biodude]

Yeah, I got a hud coder(no thanks to you downsider XD) and I am working with a modifiyed version of weapon crowbar's dquake so that I can run hl1 maps and models flawlessly. Ill find a way i guess

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I'll start coding one tonight!