Mounted image doesn't appear

#1 Okay, well I assume that you know which mount point you want to use to mount your weapon. However for the sake of demonstration we will use "mount0".

Now, when you want to mount an object in TGE you need to define what point you are mounting to twice. Once in the image and again in the actual call to mount the image.

Your weapons image should have somthing like this in it:

// Specify mount point & offset for 3rd person, and eye offset
   // for first  rendering.
   mountPoint = 0;
   offset = "0 0 0";
   eyeOffset = "0.08 0.2 -0.28";
   //eyeOffset = "0.0 0.0 0.0";

Make sure that your "mountPoint" is equal to whatever point you want to use on your model in this case its 0.

To actualy mount the object to the player you can use a command like this (Where "AssaultRifleImage" is your image name") :

%obj.mountImage(AssaultRifleImage, 0);

Note the 0 this needs to be the same number that you used in the image. Now, I just inserted this command into player.cs like this:

//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Armor Datablock methods
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------

//----------------------------------------------------------------------------

function Armor::onAdd(%this,%obj)
{


   %obj.mountImage(AssaultRifleImage, 0); //Here it is


   // Vehicle timeout
   %obj.mountVehicle = true;

   // Default dynamic armor stats
   %obj.setRechargeRate(%this.rechargeRate);
   %obj.setRepairRate(0);
}

function Armor::onRemove(%this, %obj)
{
   if (%obj.client.player == %obj)
      %obj.client.player = 0;
}

function Armor::onNewDataBlock(%this,%obj)
{
}

Hope that helps. :)

#2 Thank you for your answer. I've done the mounting in the way you describe it, but it doesn't work. I don't know why.

I've inserted an output (echo) in the onAdd-Method to be sure that the engine calls the method. It does. But there appears no mounted weapon.

My weapon model has several mount points. One of them is called "mountPoint". I think this should be the point where the weapon is mounted to the player object? The player model has also several mount points. One is called "mount0". Here should the weapon appear, right?

I can't see an error in my code, but i must find it ;)

#3 I've found it!

I've derived my own Player-Class from Vehicle and overwrote the mountImage()-method. Instead of calling the Parent::mountImage() method, i returned true as a dummy entry :D

Now it works, thank you!