Ok after not being happy with a rifle that needs to have the crosshairs on the enemy in isometric mode I did a little playing with the RPG ammo and the rifle ..... the result was .... A rifle that fires projectiles ( speed set very fast so there not easily seen) and the ability to shoot and kill at any viewable distance.
Much more realistic I thought

I don't know how you do it, but, it's very, very cool.

AWESOME! That looks perfect.

Very cool.

awesome, great job Synchromesh

Looks killer! Very good job.

Works a treat by the looks! Nice one.

Great synchromesh, well done!

3com

Amazing scripting!

LOL... Cant script to save my life .... Its all out of the box with a few modifications ..
Thanks for the thought though

very cool!

Good stuff - nice to do that without scripting.

I come back from the dead, and see this.. Nice work Syncromesh!

is it going to be a thing for us too, or are you going to keep it for yourself? (Won't blame 'ye if you did)

Its no secret and I will be happy to share but at the moment there is a small sacrifice which I was discussing with Lee first ..
Stay tuned and I will post how I did it .... Its pretty easy but like I said has one downside ..

Ok here is the way it works but please backup any of the folders I point you to.

1... Go to Gamecore \ guns \ modern\ shotgun ...Open the Gunspec text and add the projectile line under poolammo as shown below.
poolammo = shotgun
projectile = rpggrenade

The shotgun will now fire rpgammo ... So far simple

Now the next problem I had to work out was that its "not" the projectile that kills the characters on contact .... its the actual explosion.
To get around this I replaced the \ effectbank \ explosion \ explosion2.dds with a blank texture I have attached below

This is the downside due to hard coding ... You will lose your explosion effect unless anyone can find a workaround..
Finally ... Go to \ Gamecore \ Projectiletypes and edit the rpggrenade.txt

I set the projectile speeds to
; minimum speed in units/second of projectile when fired
speedMin = 9000
; maximum speed in units/second of projectile when fired
speedMax = 9000

and the radius of the blast to

; radius of damage effect if explosive
damageRadius = 20

After that all should work as in the video but like I said for the moment you wont have an explosion effect unless anyone can work around this..
Its all actually very easy and should only take you 5 mins to try out ... If anyone can improve it please post

Thank you for the info great work.

I was looking for something like this for quite some time. THANKS !!! You're awesome!

Excellent. Thank you.

Thanks I hope we will get a full support for the top down shooters, BTW I notice when I tested it ,the bullet go high and if I am standing very close to the enemies its miss them, so I made some changes

1.accuracyY = 0
2.; effect of gravity of projectile
gravityModifier = 1

its still going up sometimes and miss from close range

any ideas?