First Person Weapon Interfaces

gamble · Post by **gamble** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 7:06 pm

How do i creat new first person weapon interfaces and what do i do it with?

I'd like to learn how to create everything withing the Interfaces portion of the .weapon tag.

If you can help, thanx

also if you know how to make something constantly overheated (like from the second you pick it up, plz tell)

Tyson101 · Post by **Tyson101** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 3:40 pm

OK so far all i know is that the first person model is the same model as your .gbxmodel so what i think you do is create a seperate folder for fp and use the master chief reference model as a guide to where he is holding the gun. You will also want to set the gun and the model to 0 , 0,0. Hope this works or helps at all.
Tyson

gamble · Post by **gamble** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 3:44 pm

o ok, so i want it about elbow height and stuff? thanx

Tyson101 · Post by **Tyson101** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 3:44 pm

np i hope this helps cause Im really not sure since most people wont tell how to do it. Plz let me know if this works

gamble · Post by **gamble** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 4:26 pm

o wait, they are not the same

there is a seperate gbxmodel for the fp view and the actual thing

Tyson101 · Post by **Tyson101** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 5:17 pm

yepp so hows the progress going like does it work?

gamble · Post by **gamble** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 5:22 pm

i don't know how the FP thing is supposed to be modeled

Tyson101 · Post by **Tyson101** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 5:28 pm

Its the same model as you gbx i think.

gamble · Post by **gamble** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 5:28 pm

no theres your regular gbx model, then theres the fp gbx model

Tyson101 · Post by **Tyson101** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 5:31 pm

Yes but you use the model that you exported as the gbx and I think you just use the MC reference model to postion the gun to look like you want (fp view of the model).

gamble · Post by **gamble** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 5:38 pm

also theres first person animations

how do you get master chief to hold the gun like you want him to hold it?

Tyson101 · Post by **Tyson101** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 5:59 pm

ok ok i know this one hold on..........Then think about what weapon you want MC to hold it like, go find that weapon tag. Copy it to a new folder in the weapons folder ok thats from choels tutorial.

The Ghost · Post by **The Ghost** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 6:10 pm

Wow you two owned this thread... by yourselves. lol.

Tyson101 · Post by **Tyson101** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 6:11 pm

Yea well not many people know how to do this so were just feading ideas back and forth.

gamble · Post by **gamble** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 8:41 pm

yeah, i based my sword off of the plasma rifle.

When i do a debug_camera in devmode so i can see my own chief, he's not holding anything so i need to fix that too.

Tyson101 · Post by **Tyson101** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 8:46 pm

cool so its coming along in other words.
Edit: Ok I found something out while was messing around so here it is. My battle rifle has no collision but i still managed to pick it up and in devmode I used the cheat for all vehicles I entered the banshee and when i got out for a quick second I could see MC holding my br and holding it correctly. now I think i need to create a fp animation cause you still cant see it. I will keep updating you guys on what I find.

Edit: Wow Im on a role so now I do know that you can just use the animation from say the assault rifle and that is what causes MC to hold the gun the way he does. Also the AR has its own bitmaps so I think I either need to recreate those or make my own. Oh yea the gun now fires!!

gamble · Post by **gamble** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 8:22 am

heheh, i don't have to worry about that firing crap cuz i have a plasma sword, ive already clipped all the firing capabilities.

as for the actual modeling and stuff, whats parts of the gun do you have? like gbxmodel, fp gbxmodel and so on

i still can't see my guy holding the gun

Tyson101 · Post by **Tyson101** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 10:02 am

I have a gbx model, bullet contrail , bullet damage efeect, bullet projectile, flashlight.lens_flare, collision geometry, weapon hud interface, melle damage effect, melee response damage effect, muzzle flash.light, trigger.damage_effect, and the weapon model. This does not include the fp tahs though.To make it so MC hold the gun you have to think about how you want him to hold it. (i.e. the assault rifle animation is how the MC holds the weapon so think do you want him to hold it like plasma pistol or w/e). So im back trying to figure out to see it first person.