feature request: independent viewmodels

[frag.machine]

Is there an engine that support this (say, independent left and right hands/arms) ? Even if by (ugh) CSQC ?
Darkplaces ? FTE ?
Anyone ?
Bueller ?

[r00k]

Do you mean like a cvar to show it in either hand? Or dual weapons and dual sbar? This could be done in ss_ QuakeC...

[leileilol]

Darkplaces and FTE have implementations of viewmodeltoclient (allowing to treat any entity as an independent viewmodel). Also, little known software port GoldQuake supported this. Engoo has this support sort of, but it's a define that crashes.

[frag.machine]

Darkplaces and FTE have implementations of viewmodeltoclient (allowing to treat any entity as an independent viewmodel).

Ahh, so that's what viewmodeltoclient is used for ? Nice!

I'll search for examples and/or tutorials. Thanks leileilol!

[frag.machine]

Do you mean like a cvar to show it in either hand? Or dual weapons and dual sbar? This could be done in ss_ QuakeC...

Imagine for example if the player could equip different sets of swords/broadswords/axes/clubs/morning stars and shields, and you could have independent models and animations for both arms (think Skyrim/Oblivion style melee combat).

In QuakeC terms, I was thinking about something in the line of

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.string lvwepmodel;
.string rvwepmodel;
.float lvwepframe;
.float rvwepframe;


I'll check leileilol's suggestion of viewmodeltoclient support on Darkplaces.

[Spike]

with (pure) csqc, a viewmodel is simply just another entity. if you want two of them, you can just add two of them to the scene.
the ssqc viewmodeltoclient feature is basically the same, and attaches the entity to the view rather than floating free through the world.
either way, separate entity fields with separate modelindex/frame/origin/skin/colormap/colormod/etc rather than special fields on the player entity and hacking different clientside cvars.

[frag.machine]

Thanks for the explanation Spike, it indeed seems the more reasonable way to go.