gun placement

[cassius]

I designed my own gun, a rifle but cannot remember the code for letting the player carry it. Should I parent it to the controller or the camera?

[AggrorJorn]

The fps controller script uses this:

vwep:SetParent(fw.main.camera,0)

[cassius]

This is what I have got so far.

 

Local gun:TModel = LoadModel("abstract::gun08.gmf")

EntityParent(fw.Main.camera,gun)

PositionEntity gun,EntityPosition(fw.Main.camera)

[AggrorJorn]

The wiki says this:

BlitzMax: 
EntityParent:Int( entity:TEntity, parent:TEntity, global:Int = 1 )

I think you need to switch the main camera with the gun.

[cassius]

Thanks. Got it working but its a lousy looking gun.Back to the drawing board.

[cassius]

Ok I have my gun set up and in position with sound effect and muzzle flash.

I have two problems.

1: The muzzle flash looks good on the gun but produces a sharp round reflection on walls.How can I make it less foccused?

2: I have no idea how to make the gun fire bullets. Any hints would be welcome.

I have studied the lua controller script but can't understand the bullet firing bit.

[AggrorJorn]

1: use a lower range value for the pointlight or

local muzzleflash = CreatePointLight(1)

2: I don't know how to shoot either, but what I would do is stripping down the FPS controller script. Test it out every time you remove a line and see what happens. Thats the approach what I mostly use. Like for example: Do I need values with recoil or do I wan the gun to sway. Ofcourse you can add it back gain later. but for now try to do it without it.

[cassius]

Thanks I will do that. I won't bother with recoil just keep it simple until I get it working.