First person view lightsaber aggrevations.

[Lokin]

i am really mad at raven for not putting in 1pv for lightsaber in the game, seriously it should have been added in regardless of dual saber and staff saber problems, im tired of looking at the backside of my character when in lightsaber combat in SP. Also, it doesnt help any bit that all these trueview lightsaber mods dont come with a singleplayer option. >_>

[ent]

There-there, Raven was a bad boy and apologizes

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1qnu6i003wnucc8/trueview_dismemberment_mblur.mp4

 

Try mod JA++ for MP to have that. I don't know SP mods that support it.

[Boothand]

I did this in JK2 with some camera commands + a slight pk3 modification. I'm sure the same is possible in JKA. In my opinion, a bit easier to follow than true-view.

 

[Lokin]

i will be forever grateful to whoever links me a first person view mod (not the stupid one on jk3files that requires binds and doesnt work with openJK)

[Circa]

Binds would be the only way to implement it, as far as I know. Unless you mess around with the autoexec.cfg to make it load automatically.

 

Or maybe you could get someone to copy over the code from JA++ to a new code base of OpenJK.

[Artemis]

There is /cg_fpls in JKA.  It's a joke, tho.  The camera is literally in the character's head, which means you can kinda see teeth...  I've only ever messed with it in 1.00 multiplayer, so no idea if it even exists in SP, JA+ and whatnot.  :/

[ent]

@Lokin, I told you in my reply, it's done in the mod JA++, try that mod out.

[Serenity937]

I Tried to code this in sp some time ago. 

 

 

I did this through code so the head "Irrelevant of model/size" would not clip with the camera.

 

Check out the Code from here

 

http://www.moddb.com/mods/serenitysabersystems/addons/serenityjedienginesdk

[Circa]

@Lokin, I told you in my reply, it's done in the mod JA++, try that mod out.

He wants it for SP though.

[Lokin]

He wants it for SP though.

i need it for SP badly. im going thru the series again and im almost halfway thru DF2.

[ent]

He wants it for SP though.

Oh, yeah... Sorry.

I need to learn reading.

[katanamaru]

I use the one that requires binding. It works fine.

 

 

That's with the animations that will be in the Jedi Knight: Enhanced mod.

[ensiform]

Simply put, they didn't do it because its not just an individual player model and many many different saber choices.

 

The way it works in JK2 is because that it's just an extra skin for kyle to render the hand and the saber.

[Lokin]

sigh i guess no one is capable of putting in a first person view

[McGroose]

Simply put, they didn't do it because its not just an individual player model and many many different saber choices.

 

The way it works in JK2 is because that it's just an extra skin for kyle to render the hand and the saber.

This is especially noticable if you have a replacement model for kyle and/or his lightsaber hilt. Both the hilt and the model will be a mess of textures in 1st person mode.

[Lokin]

so why doesn't someone create a camera trick and remove the head model or something along those lines? whats so bloody difficult about first person view in singleplayer, ive seen it doen so many times in MP mods

[ensiform]

Because the single player modding wasn't possible prior to last year and nobody has taken up the initiative to port those mods to SP.  Your attitude is not very pleasing.  If you want it done, you do it.

[katanamaru]

It is something others are interested in, but is not high on their lists. You may have to use the key bound version in the mean time.

[Lokin]

Because the single player modding wasn't possible prior to last year and nobody has taken up the initiative to port those mods to SP.  Your attitude is not very pleasing.  If you want it done, you do it.

 

I would if i could but i don't know jack anymore and my damn job keeps me from spending any amount of time learning.

 

also, prior to last year with the release of the source, what exactly was preventing singleplayer modding from achieving first person view of the lightsaber?

[ensiform]

You couldn't mod SP at all.

[Dusty]

I don't get why there just can't be a cvar to cause the model textures/surface to just be transparent...

[ensiform]

Because that isn't how first person works at all 

[Lokin]

so.... has someone posted on how singleplayer does work or are we still in the dark?

[therfiles]

I don't get why there just can't be a cvar to cause the model textures/surface to just be transparent...

 

I guess you could make a script that makes the player invisible/visible. Not sure what you are looking for, though. It would just be a floating saber...

[Dusty]

^Say you made the character model 80-90% transparent, then it would be easy to see in 1st person even if the character model is in the way sometimes. That would be model-independent too.