Having them as seperate models makes it even more of a pain On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Saul Rennison <[email protected]>wrote:
> I want to save animating till later to be honest. And I'd prefer to > have all the attachments as seperate models and attach them when need > be. I don't want players to be removing / attaching on the fly; a bit > like CoD4 attachments. > > All I want is code / concepts of how I would spawn this model and > attach it to the local client's viewmodel (doing worldmodel later). > > FYI Viewmodels are bummers :( > > Thanks, > - Saul. > > On 5 Oct 2009, at 22:35, Ryan Sheffer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Its best to just have the scope as a model group mentioned above. If > > you > > want the players hand to put the scope on, making the scopes verts > > part of > > bone and parent that bone to the hand during the animation and once > > attached > > unparent in the animation. Then just have the scope model group stay > > on > > until the player removed it again. > > > > If you dont want to do this, parenting new models to the player v > > model is > > going to be an annoying task, but its possible. Just need to keep in > > mind > > that it is hidden to all players cept the local. Maybe having the > > model > > entirely client side would be wise? But maybe too much work to setup. > > > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Stephen Swires <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > >> You could try using bodygroups on the weapon and view model > >> > >> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Saul Rennison <[email protected] > >>> wrote: > >> > >>> Hey hlcoders, > >>> > >>> I'm wondering how I'd go about adding normal static props (i.e. a > >>> small > >>> scope) to an existing weapon. I've tried bone merging the > >>> viewmodel to a > >>> static prop I created to no avail, albeit I'm not sure I'm doing it > >>> correctly. I'm basically requesting: > >>> > >>> - How would I go about spawning a prop/another viewmodel, and > >>> where I > >>> should do this in the code; > >>> - How would I attach this newly spawned prop to my viewmodel (it's > >>> currently a bone, v_weapon.Scope.Attachment) > >>> - Has anyone tried this before and are they willing to release code > >>> [snippets]. > >>> > >>> > >>> Thanks so much in advance, > >>> - Saul. > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > >>> archives, > >>> please visit: > >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> - Stephen Swires > >> _______________________________________________ > >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > >> archives, > >> please visit: > >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > ~Ryan ( skidz ) > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > > archives, please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > -- - Stephen Swires _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
