skin changing

[Ghost_Fang]

Alright is it possible, to change a skin by the press of a button? Like lets say i make a separate skin for the quake shotty, nice hot pink. lol. can i code a function for it to switch skins with the press of a button. OR if these certain animations are playing have a certain skin. How would i do either of those?

[Baker]

A rough skeleton of how press a button skin changes would work:

Bind an impulse to a key:

bind x "impulse 200"

In QuakeC, where the impulses are read (I'm thinking this in weapons.qc in ImpulseCommands function) have "if (self.impulse == 200) ChangeMySkin ();"

And have ChangeMySkin switch self.skin.

Something like this:

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void ChangeMySkin ()
{
     if (self.skin == 1) self.skin =2;
     else self.skin =1;
}

Maybe a REAL QuakeC coder can critique what I wrote above if that doesn't work as-is.

I'm not Mr. QuakeC.

[ceriux]

either that or he could call that function in the weapon change code for when he changes to the shotty. since hes looking to change the skin when he selects a new weapon.

this may, or may not work. but you can try it.

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else if (self.impulse == 2)
   {
      fl = IT_SHOTGUN;
      self.skin =2;
      if (self.ammo_shells < 1)
         am = 1;
   }

might be like... player.skin or something... idk. but something similar should work if this doesnt.

or maybe in player post think.

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if (self.weapon == IT_SHOTGUN)
{
self.skin =2;
}

ect...

[Ghost_Fang]

No i can see it now, its actually quite easy lol.
Instead of starting a new thread (or should I?)

How would i be able to make a "charge" shot?
Like hold down the button to charge something?
and if you charge it for maybe so many seconds the power doubles or something? Then release to fire

[Baker]

Probably adding something to defs.qc like

.float currentCharge
.float isCharging

And having a hold down impulse and a release impulse ...

alias +charge "impulse 101" // When pressed, +charge
alias -charge "impulse 102" // When released, -charge
bind "enter" +charge

And when impulse 101 is detected in the qc (again maybe in weapons.qc in Impulsecommands) ...

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if (self.impulse == 101)  self.isCharging = 1;  // begin charging
if (self.impulse == 102) self.isCharging = 0; // stop charging

Somewhere you will have code like

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// If isCharging, add more to currentCharge
if (self.isCharging == 1) self.currentCharge == self.currentCharge + 0.25;

I am not sure where the best place to put the above code would be. And again, the above may need adaption and not work as-is.

[ceriux]

i think there's a tutorial for that in the tutorial section.

[Sajt]

Note that you can't actually change the weapon model's skin (there is no ".weaponskin" field). You'll have to create a second copy of the model with the other skin, and swap out the model. But of course, if done in mid-animation, that can cause a "snap" in lerping on newer engines. Or else you can try something extra clever, like moving two differently textured polygons in and out of view on the model. Or... if you're not worried about old engine support you can use an extension like DP_ENT_VIEWMODEL.

[ceriux]

why hasnt there been a .weaponskin extension made? seems kind of... weird that there hasnt been...