Animate shooting effect by code

JasonX · Post by **JasonX** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 6:51 pm

Is there any engine that ignores the shooting effect from the MDL and makes the shooting effect by code, like bobbing, for example? Q3 did that and looked good.

mh · Post by mh » Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:09 pm

What do you mean by "shooting effect"? If you mean the muzzle-flash animation then the answer is no, because it's part of the MDL. You'd need a replacement MDL for it.

JasonX · Post by **JasonX** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:25 pm

The movement of the model, not the muzzle flash.

leileilol · Post by **leileilol** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 9:54 pm

That's done in view.c on the engine, not QuakeC.

mh · Post by mh » Sun Apr 10, 2011 10:02 pm

The model movement itself is also part of the MDL animation, nothing to do with code (although code does select which frames to use).

JasonX · Post by **JasonX** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:02 am

As i said, i wanted to ignore MDL animation. I'm using static models and wanted to animate them through code, like Q3 did.

leileilol · Post by **leileilol** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:50 am

q3 did that by cgame (Client-side game code)

quake doesn't have a cgame - it's either engine code or serverside progs.dat