[Question] First Person Body

[Gary]

Okay, I am trying this again, my idea is just to draw the player while in firstperson, and texture the arms and head something transparent. Main problem is animations, what animations and activities does the current player model system use (if any), how would I figure this out?



Old Post(no longer relevant):

I was wondering if anyone had any idea on how to do this. I've had a few ideas, I'll say two of them.

Attach camera to thirdperson eyes. Much like the first person ragdolls, I was thinking you could attach the camera to the head, though, I can easily see some problems, one; you would need to re-animate and code how the third person model works, as it is not in good sync nor are the animations or models detailed enough. Though you could add LODs to guns, so that only when you are really close that you see a lot of detail. So really, this seems like a good way to go. It would also be useful for MP as the thirdperson model would look and act better.


Second way is to make all the weapon's have a body in there model, though I doubt that this would look that good.

Whats your guy's thoughts on it? Any ideas or suggestions? I would like to do this sometime in the future for a mod.

[coder0xff]

You don't even have to make it third person really. You just need to find the ShouldDrawLocalPlayer or whatever it's called, and then maybe make sure CalcView places the viewpoint slightly ahead of the face so you don't see artifacts from being inside the head. Or you could move the near clip plane out, which can also be done in calc view.

[Gary]

Re-attempting this, look at OP for question.

[Jordash]

I would be easier to use the MP code (if you aren't already) because that has the player animations already set up. Then it is as simple as coder0xff said and making them visible. I think you will have an issue of rotating on the spot though, from memory there aren't any rotating animations

[srredfire]

I have no idea how to do any of this, and probably am no help, but from what I gathered from no sleep, is that you're trying to make it so you can see your body in first person, ala Mirror's Edge, or any other game or some shit.

You might want to look at Dark Messiah: Might and Magic. They did it in that game.

You probably won't have access to the code I'm guessing, but it might help, they have the model for it available, which has all the animations and what not for it, so that may help as well.

If you don't have that game and you actually are interested in checking it out or need files from it, lemme know, PM me or something, I'd be glad to pack 'em up and give them to you.

[Surfa]

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Third_Person_Camera#Step_6:_Animations

[Gary]

@Surfa; that doesn't work and at the top of the page it says it won't work for the OB engine.

I would be easier to use the MP code (if you aren't already) because that has the player animations already set up. Then it is as simple as coder0xff said and making them visible. I think you will have an issue of rotating on the spot though, from memory there aren't any rotating animations

Using MP code for an SP mod doesn't sound like it would work to well, quite a few differences that doesn't really work for an SP mod. Is it possible to add the necessary files to the SP solution?

[zombie@computer]

@Surfa; that doesn't work and at the top of the page it says it won't work for the OB engine.

Odd. I mod OB code, added the above code, replaced green player model with alyx and it works okay.

[Gary]

I got it to work, animation problem.

It's not perfect, but I think it's just a matter of using the right activities.