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Mounting shape to a weapon

by Mark Cooper · in Torque Game Engine · 12/04/2006 (5:51 am) · 4 replies

Hi

Ive been trying to mount a shape to a weapon because my game has interchangeable equipment for each gun (scope, silencer, grenade launcher etc.)

so far Ive had no luck, all it does it mount the shape onto the player and removed the weapon
but i want to mount it onto the weapon, i setup mount points on the weapon etc

anybody got any ideas on how this can be done? preferably using just script

Thanks
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Torque Owner Brian Hill
#1
12/04/2006 (6:26 am)
Don't think you can using the default weapon implementation. It mounts the weapons on the players as ShapeBaseImage instances -- you can't mount things onto those, as far as I know.

If you redid the weapon code to mount weapons as ShapeBase objects instead, then you could probably mount the equipment onto the weapons as ShapeBaseImages. You'd have to change how the firing code worked, though. Probably the aiming code, too. And definitely the mounting code.

That's the best I can come up with, short of having separate meshes for each possible combination (rifle, rifle w/scope, rifle w/launcher, etc...). That wouldn't take any modifications, but seems very wasteful.

Torque Owner Mark Cooper
#2
12/04/2006 (6:51 am)
I thought the same thing about separate meshes, there will be so many different combinations
plus i would want to periodically release new devices to attach

I'm not much of a programmer so all those changes to the code seem out of my league

thanks for your input

Associate Scott Burns
GG Alumni
#3
12/04/2006 (7:35 am)
There's a resource or a thread floating around that allows you to mount objects to a ShapeBaseImage somewhere. I remember playing with it about a year ago, I can't remember how well it worked though.

Torque Owner Mark Cooper
#4
12/04/2006 (7:44 am)
I haven't seen it, any chance of a link?