Help: CSQC VWEP Options?

[OneManClan]

[toneddu2000]

[toneddu2000]

[Spike]

gettaginfo sets v_forward/v_right/v_up according to the orientation of the specified bone/tag, returning the origin (it makes the entire 4*3 (world-space) bone matrix available).

by vwep, onemanclan means visible weapons - as in weapons that are visible on other players. he does not mean view weapons/models that are visible only to yourself.
viewmodels do not need to use gettaginfo on the player's model, as they can directly use the view's origin - they can normally do this with the RF_VIEWMODEL flag.
viewmodels should also use RF_DEPTHHACK renderflag to prevent it from poking through walls.

visible weapons, on the other hand, should use RF_EXTERNALMODEL on any models/entities attached to the local player's model, and no special flags for entities attached to other players. gettaginfo provides all the information required to glue the attached model to a bone in the parent model, assuming the attached model is centered around its attachment point in the model editor (ie: the attached model is positioned around 0 0 0 inside blender).

[toneddu2000]

[OneManClan]

[toneddu2000]

[OneManClan]

[frag.machine]

[OneManClan]

[Spike]

using bones as tags requires that you pay attention to the orientation of the parent's bone inside blender. if the point you attach it to is oriented downwards, then the entire weapon shall also be pointed downwards. failing that, negate the forwards vector, then swap v_forward+_up around. but its much more sane to correct your model instead, especially if you're ever going to use alternative player models (where they'd each need different adjustments).

[toneddu2000]

[toneddu2000]

[Spike]

toneddu2000, I'm not sure what you're even trying to do, iiuc you're trying to position a viewmodel (as opposed to a vwep) directly on the player's model instead of simply positioning it in screenspace?

either way, you seem confused about what the various builtins return that you've decided to randomly call, so I'll try to describe them again:

skel_get_boneabs:
directly returns the modelspace position of the bone, also obtains the orientation via storing to the v_forward/v_right/v_up vectors (like makevectors does).
I'll say that again, returns a POSITION, not an ANGLE.
the result matrix is in model space. that is it does not consider the origin of the entity because there IS no specific entity to which it should be oriented.
because this is modelspace, positions won't be much larger than the entity's bbox.

gettaginfo:
exactly like skel_get_boneabs, but the result is in world space. uses the specified entity's skeleltal object, or the current frame if none is specified.

skel_get_bonerel:
exactly like skel_get_boneabs, except the result is relative to its parent bone, and thus will be quite small.

[toneddu2000]