Coding Ironsights Created 6 years ago2017-07-26 05:21:13 UTC by abbadon

Hi. I am working again on a new mod, it is far simpler than ZWC, and this time it´s full original. It will be done with GoldSource, no Xash between, probably EHL from Solokiller :). It will have very few new code, mostly for enemies and, of course the weapons, the rest of the development will be Mapping. Don´t have a name yet, but the first scratch book has the name "ROWEN" on its pages...

After seeing some tutorials using scripts for this feature, I want to know if someone of you can point me to a good tutorial about how to code ironsights for HL (Goldsource) Weapons. The modelling part will not be a problem as I can learn how it is done through decompiling an existing "ironsighted" model. I found a tutorial form Jorg40 (coder for a Natural Selection Bot) at ValveDeveloper but it is for HL2 (Crazy stuff there) so I am sure it won´t work for standard GoldSource.

Thanks in anticipation.

There aren't really any "set" way to do it though, you can go about it a couple different ways; shifting the viewmodel origin to a pre-defined value, using animations to toggle (and give the effect of moving your gun by yourself), there's a few other ways you can do it as well.

Also, you'd be surprised how mow code from HL2 can be ported and shoved into GoldSource.

Mmmm, could it be done with the crossbow as a basecode?, what I don´t know since it been almost two years that I don´t play HL, is that if the zoom (right mouse/alternate fire) is a toggle key or not. :/

you'd be surprised how mow code from HL2 can be ported and shoved into GoldSource.

Oh, I must pay more attention, maybe I can exract some useful info from that tutorial (and others)

Crossbow zoom is a toggle, just FYI

Urby isn't a programmer but he's pointing you in the right direction.

Thanks!, as I could see, I have to make the "from hip to face" animation, call it with "send weapon animation" in the "secondary" attack function, and let the rest work as normal, I mean the primary attack, of course, right?.

As the Mod will have the halo weapons-switching method for weapon carrying so you can have only 2 at a time (1 primary, 1 secondary) and I have planned to add only a very few of them, probably 2 melee (will be present always), 2 types of pistols, 1 type of SMG, 1 type of SG and 1 type of grenade, the coding part for this will be very quick as all of them are based on pre existing code.