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Ravenous
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Posted: 7th Dec 2016 14:13
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Hello everybody,

I was wondering if it could be possible to add static models to the camera, in front of it. My idea is to make a cockpit like in the Mechwarrior games, or any flight simulator for example. Instead of simulate it with a flat semitransparent png file, it would be much better if I could model a custom cockpit and then import it into GG and add it in front of the camera so it would move and rotate with the camera. The only trouble I see is how this would interact with the colision system.

Anybody has tried it?

thank you very much!!
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Posted: 7th Dec 2016 19:15
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Yes you can do this if you switch off the collision of the model being rendered at/around the player position. You then have to get creative if you actually want the collision to work (such as being in a ship or car) - no ideal solution I've found to this yet.


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Posted: 9th Dec 2016 12:01
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Thank you cybernescence!

And regardless of the collision system, how I can add/attach a model to the camera?

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Posted: 9th Dec 2016 13:34
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You can take a look at the jetpack. It is a 3d hud and follows the camera when pickup or assigned.
It can be found here:
Game Guru\Files\gamecore\hudlayers

There is a script in the scriptbank folder called jetpack I believe.
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Posted: 9th Dec 2016 14:20 Edited at: 9th Dec 2016 14:21
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as a suggestion you could try first backing up the jetpack folder i.e. gamecore/hudlayers and replacing with your own model/textures etc and then add an entity of your 1st person model in the entitybank that you could pickup and edit/attach the jetpac.lua script to that to see if it works. Of course I've not tested it out myself but in theory could work but by no means a long term solution if you want to use the jetpac
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Posted: 9th Dec 2016 16:27
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It actually works pretty good. I did a small test interior of a car.
You will want this detailed and all visible mesh normals facing the player for the interior. The use of an _i.dds texture for illumination may be cool also.

You may need to play with the rotation upon export from your model program depending on which axis is y.
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