Legs in a Source mod? No way!

[dissonance]

• It is not possible to have water and real-time reflections in the same scene;

is it possible to defer the rendering by one frame? if the client is rendering at 30+ fps, it shouldn't be too laggy.
[edit]: semi-related idea; would it be possible to render the water during even-numbered frames and the reflections during the odd-numbered frames? they'd both be pulling fps/2, but with some interpolation it could look passable.

I was also thinking that it might be beneficial to scrap the entire firstperson view, and just make a really highpoly version of the character, sort of a LoD model for use when the distance between the camera and model is near 0. essentially, it'd be a thirdperson view with the camera inside the player's model's head.
...i hope i explained that well enough.

[dark0r]

• It is not possible to have water and real-time reflections in the same scene;

is it possible to defer the rendering by one frame? if the client is rendering at 30+ fps, it shouldn't be too laggy.
[edit]: semi-related idea; would it be possible to render the water during even-numbered frames and the reflections during the odd-numbered frames? they'd both be pulling fps/2, but with some interpolation it could look passable.

I was also thinking that it might be beneficial to scrap the entire firstperson view, and just make a really highpoly version of the character, sort of a LoD model for use when the distance between the camera and model is near 0. essentially, it'd be a thirdperson view with the camera inside the player's model's head.
...i hope i explained that well enough.

Nothing that eccentric is necessary, we just need two render targets. One for water reflections, one for mirror reflections (at the moment, they both use the water reflection texture, easily fixable).

That would be possible with the system I'm using at the moment. Unfortunately, I've come across a high-demand job which is taking up all of the free time I've got at the moment. I hope I will have the tutorial/code out within a month, but don't quote me on that.

[Palermo]

I tested the code which give dark0r (this one : http://pastebin.com/EpD258aS). I put this code in c_baseplayer.cpp but I have some compile errors

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1>e:\modding\mymodsource\src\game\client\c_baseplayer.cpp(2478) : error C2084: function 'ShadowType_t C_BasePlayer::ShadowCastType(void)' already has a body
1>e:\modding\mymodsource\src\game\client\c_baseplayer.h(191) : see previous definition of 'ShadowCastType'
1>e:\modding\mymodsource\src\game\client\c_baseplayer.cpp(2486) : error C2509: 'GetShadowCastDirection' : member function not declared in 'C_BasePlayer'
1>e:\modding\mymodsource\src\game\client\c_baseplayer.h(61) : see declaration of 'C_BasePlayer'
1>e:\modding\mymodsource\src\game\client\c_baseplayer.cpp(2493) : error C2084: function 'bool C_BasePlayer::ShouldDraw(void)' already has a body
1>e:\modding\mymodsource\src\game\client\c_baseplayer.h(260) : see previous definition of 'ShouldDraw'
1>e:\modding\mymodsource\src\game\client\c_baseplayer.cpp(2502) : error C2509: 'GetRenderOrigin' : member function not declared in 'C_BasePlayer'
1> e:\modding\mymodsource\src\game\client\c_baseplayer.h(61) : see declaration of 'C_BasePlayer'
1>e:\modding\mymodsource\src\game\client\c_baseplayer.cpp(2522) : error C2084: function 'int C_BasePlayer::DrawModel(int)' already has a body
1>e:\modding\mymodsource\src\game\client\c_baseplayer.h(261) : see previous definition of 'DrawModel'

I said that I use the SDK template 2007 for a multiplayer mod. Others have had the same problem (see here : http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... p=22858188)

Anybody managed to run this code ?

[dark0r]

Well, remove the other definitions of the functions, and add the respective declarations to the class header.

[Palermo]

Thank you for your rapid response. I'll try that !!!!

[Palermo]

I did what you said. I see my legs but !

I have effectively a problem

dark0r, I hope you have less work and you will be able to do a tutorial on these damned legs !!

[Surfa]

It is really simple from there on mate. Just recompile the model with a new body group without the arms and head then in the drawmodel function in the clientside player class add a simple check.

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//This isn't right more pseudo code
if(IsFirstPerson())
setBodyGroup(1);
else
setBodyGroup(0);


[Gary]

I wouldn't use body groups, I would use a new skin. So I could make the invisible mesh still cast depth shadows.

[dark0r]

I did what you said. I see my legs but !

I have effectively a problem

dark0r, I hope you have less work and you will be able to do a tutorial on these damned legs !!

In my hacky version, I used custom clip planes to not render above the waist.

I wouldn't use body groups, I would use a new skin. So I could make the invisible mesh still cast depth shadows.

Fix for ya (more pseudo code, but the current view ID function does exist)

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if(IsFirstPerson() && !GetCurrentViewId() != VIEW_DEPTH)
    setBodyGroup(1);
else
    setBodyGroup(0);


I will be writing up the tutorial tomorrow

[Kubata]

This is really really interesting since I feel this is something pretty essential in terms of realism and you seem to be pulling it off well enough!