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Skippy
Joined: 14 Sep 2007 Posts: 4
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 3:05 am Post subject: Modelled Shields |
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Wondering if anyone can give any insight on how to do a shield similar to counter-strike. From what I've read, attached models lose collision info, so I guess it would need to be following the player some other way. I imagine I could simply animate all the frames for the shield placing it where it would be on the player, that way it would just have to align with the player origin and angles, but beyond that concept I'm pretty lost.
Per poly collision would probably be a good idea for accuracy, unless someone has a brilliant plan to get a hitbox to follow a moving and animating object. |
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Sajt
Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Posts: 1026
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 6:08 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, per-poly is your only really good bet (as long as you're using DarkPlaces). Bounding boxes can't rotate, so if you were at a 45 degree angle it would be a lot bigger than it should be.
The shield could either be attached to a tag on an md3 model, or a quake2-vwep-style thing animated along with the player, and attached with MOVETYPE_FOLLOW or something similar.
The other alternative is a bunch of hard-coded math If you hard coded shield orientations per frame (or used a tag), and used some dot product math you might be able to simulate a round shield. _________________ F. A. Špork, an enlightened nobleman and a great patron of art, had a stately Baroque spa complex built on the banks of the River Labe. |
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leileilol

Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 1321
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 6:51 pm Post subject: Re: Modelled Shields |
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Skippy wrote: | From what I've read, attached models lose collision info |
This is true. Can't do HITMODEL with attachments :/ this is severely hindering my projects as well |
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Sajt
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 12:43 am Post subject: |
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 _________________ F. A. Špork, an enlightened nobleman and a great patron of art, had a stately Baroque spa complex built on the banks of the River Labe. |
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leileilol

Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 1321
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:36 am Post subject: |
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yeah, i was hoping to do pleasure zones attached to tags |
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Sajt
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:34 am Post subject: |
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 _________________ F. A. Špork, an enlightened nobleman and a great patron of art, had a stately Baroque spa complex built on the banks of the River Labe. |
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Urre

Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 1073 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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/me coughs something about gettaginfo and Matrices _________________ Look out for Twigboy |
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xaGe

Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Posts: 329 Location: Upstate, New York
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:57 am Post subject: |
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/me **cough cough** ..something reguarding anime pron..
leileilol wrote: | yeah, i was hoping to do pleasure zones attached to tags |
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