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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / First Person Shooter, Scope \ Ironsights troubles

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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 8th Jul 2011 22:52
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I have been having some trouble with the First person shooter im making, i want to implement Iron Sights and sniper scopes in the game but i am having trouble centering the gun to look down the ironsights or scope. Can anyone please show me how to do that? Thanks in advance.

Just in case this is needed, here's how i'm positioning the gun on the camera.



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Mobiius
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Posted: 9th Jul 2011 01:31
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Why not remove the gun object completely, and replace it with a picture of the ironsights?

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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 9th Jul 2011 05:53
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Well, since for the gunshot, im casting a ray from the gun's barrel and that would require moving and also i want the gun to actually move up into the player's field of view closer, not just appear there, that would look pretty bad.

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Posted: 9th Jul 2011 13:50
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Quote: "Why not remove the gun object completely, and replace it with a picture of the ironsights?"


That would just ruin the game. A cheap effect! I strictly advice against it.

@travis gatlin: I'm absolutely not the guy to talk code, but from an artists point of view I would suggest giving the gun an aiming animation that would make it move to the center of the screen. (depending on how you positioned it to the camera).



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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 10th Jul 2011 03:27 Edited at: 10th Jul 2011 19:24
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yeah, good point, gonna be sort of hard to do though since Blender's camera is different from DBP's and it would be hard to get aligned. I also want my game to be Moddable and have easy implementation of the modder's own guns without making them do the animation themselves.

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Just forget the Scopes, all i need is ironsights i can use the same effects for the scopes as i do the ironsights, just when the scope gets to the right position, the gun dissapears and is replaced by a scope overlay.

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I found out, just replaced the preset values with variables so whenever i right click, it centers the gun.

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