First Person Melee

[DT.]

Ok so I've been trying to stop the auto third person for melee from happening in OpenJK, and I have this:

 

 

Now how do I set different third person settings (range, etc) for just melee and not have it affect when the player goes into third person via "cg_thirdperson"?

[Onysfx]

Darn, I feel like I have the answer on the tip of my tongue, even though I know nothing about this stuff...wish I knew the answer to this.

[DT.]

Hmmm, a better way might be to get an .md3 to load for melee's first person...

[Circa]

You can look how the author of this mod did it. It's not exactly the perfect solution but it works.

 

It's not a coding solution unfortunately.

[DT.]

I managed to allow first person for melee while removing the player model and slotting in an md3 view model. However it doesn't fire any animations like the other weapons. :\

[eezstreet]

Try looking at MapTorsoAnimToWeaponFrame (I think is what it's called?) in cg_weapons.c[pp]. You'll need to add cases for the melee anims (not sure what those are right off the top of my head)

[DT.]

Found it, was  MapTorsoToWeaponFrame

 

Thanks eez, that did the trick. Now plays two viewmodel animations that match up to the player model anims.

[eezstreet]

Could you provide a video? I'm curious of how this turned out.

[DT.]

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deHCQq3yEYQ

 

 

Things I did:

 

- removed the auto third person switch for WP_MELEE

- removed ammo count for WP_MELEE

- added BOTH_MELEE1, BOTH_MELEE2 & BOTH_STAND6 to "MapTorsoToWeaponFrame" in cg_weapons.cpp

- changed anim length & anim starts for BOTH_MELEE1 & BOTH_MELEE2 (to match up to the player animations) to work with a 36 frame MD3 file

 

 

The hit effect shows in the middle around the crosshair, which works.

 

 

Each arm is seperated, so I have:

 

fists.md3

fists_barrel.md3

 

Then of course, the animation:

 

fists_hand.md3

[eezstreet]

Excellent, most excellent.

[Circa]

Heck yeah man! That's awesome.

[DT.]

Works great for DF2, but would need something else for multiple player models like JKA.

[Circa]

Works great for DF2, but would need something else for multiple player models like JKA.

Right, but it would work for JK2 as well. 

[Onysfx]

goood.....GEWD!

[Merek]

use JA++ then hit p to toggle between first and third person.

[DT.]

I'd rather full access to the code which is why I went the OpenJK route.

[Circa]

use JA++ then hit p to toggle between first and third person.

This is for SP and for melee. First person melee doesn't exist anywhere else as far as I know.

[Archangel35757]

Awesome work DT... you're becoming quite the coder.  Now you just need to spice things up by adding in more punching styles-- rather than just left or right hooks. 

 

Would like to see you add:

1. Left and right straight jabs.
2. Allow the punches to be thrown while doing the left or right torso dodge move.
3. Add some lower body straight kicks
4. Add some lower body roundhouse kicks to opponents knee joints.
5. etc., etc., etc.

[DT.]

Most of the edits I've done is a mix of luck and some help from others telling me what to search for lol. I highly doubt I could do those on the list, even though they would be cool.

[Jango40]

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deHCQq3yEYQ

 

 

Things I did:

 

- removed the auto third person switch for WP_MELEE

- removed ammo count for WP_MELEE

- added BOTH_MELEE1, BOTH_MELEE2 & BOTH_STAND6 to "MapTorsoToWeaponFrame" in cg_weapons.cpp

- changed anim length & anim starts for BOTH_MELEE1 & BOTH_MELEE2 (to match up to the player animations) to work with a 36 frame MD3 file

 

 

The hit effect shows in the middle around the crosshair, which works.

 

 

Each arm is seperated, so I have:

 

fists.md3

fists_barrel.md3

 

Then of course, the animation:

 

fists_hand.md3

Just me or do Kyle's hand have awesome quality?

[DT.]

Pretty crap quality IMO, need to be redone but that all depends on the player model being finished.

[Archangel35757]

The hands do look a little arthritic... but that can be easily fixed.

[DT.]

Yeah, that's the old mesh and crappy hand weights. Next version will look better lol.