Weapon recoil and Reload animations

#1 I hope, i get a enforcer model this weekend from one of my modelers. So i will try it and report.

#2 the guys who are doing crime force have implemented this. perhaps you can ask them.

#3 This is an oooold thread, but still...

I tried setting the player angle upon firing a weapon, but that didn't work out. Scripting is apparently not the way to go here, and I seem to be trying the whole recoil affair the wrong way around in C.

Can anyone give me (and everyone else in these forums) a pointer on how it's done properly?

There's an empty ShapeBase::onImageRecoil() function, is that a good starting point? Even better yet, could someone write a quick howto or post his code?

#4 ISnt there a barrelDUMMY in the weapon scene? couldnt you animate that with weapon recoil? wouldnt that create a recoil effect? Or are you talking quake2's machine gun recoil?

#5 Actually I don't just mean the recoil animation of the weapon (which is implemented and - I suppose - working too).

I meant nudging the player's view upwards after each shot. I'm talking about the player's orientation, aim and everything. I don't want to do a Counterstrike-like "recoil" that just spreads bullets like a firehose.

#6 Resurrecting a thread, I know - but there are in fact no other threads dealing with this question. I thought I'd say that setting a new angle after each shot does work, with scripts.

Edit: Grammar