Some Problem with animating some chaingun ...

[Doc-Pyton]

Im Workin on some kind of Chaingun at the Moment.
Its for that mod im workin on.

Moddeling it, Texturing it, getting it into the game as some new weapon and the codeworks are no problem.

The Matter with this weapon is some part of animating it.
The Gunbarrels should rotate. I tryd to do this with the Bone02 Joint, but the Problem with the weapon is that the animation go's back everytime its started again.
So the barrel is spinning into one direction and everytime the Animation starts again it spinns back fast and than start again to spin ... that looks just terrible ...

Anyone knows how to make this thing spinning into one direction without reverse the animation everytime it starts again ?



By the way this thing is called Charger-Gun ... cause its Ammo is unlimmited ... at this shot its using the normal bullets of the Autorifle, we didn code the charging script for that weapon now.
When its finished it will be empty when its picked up and then charge up slowly ...
So it can only be used limmited. I think this will be some interesting thing in the finished Mod. It fires at high rates but the Ammo is recharging very slow, so it can only be used in small periods of time with long charging times ... however, hope someone here can help me with that spinning problem.

[Psychcf]

nice job, I wouldn't mind that replacing the current machine gun. as for your animation problem I cannot assist you.

[Doc-Pyton]

Im just workin on some replacements for the old weapons ...
Some of the models are just good as they are, like this crylink thing ... but the autorifle for example will be replaced with some better looking model.
The RL will be replaced too it just looks booring atm.
Maybe we can get it a bit like that one from UT. Chargeable with two or three rockets.
In Any Case i will try to make some nice looking animations for the weapons, like some roketload animation or some backsliding closer on the Autorifle.
but for those animation works i need to get some solution to this animation problem i have with that chaingun at the moment ...
Maybe the problem can be found in the weaponcode ?
There have to be at least one here who knows how to get rid of that problem ...

[Shoe]

You might have better luck checking out the IRC channel, I think more of the devs check there more frequently.

[Doc-Pyton]

Tzork helped us a bit with that animation Problem ... instead of using the animationframes from the Model we made this gun out of two parts and made that frontpart rotate ...

There are still problems with that weapon ...
I hope we can fix this errors soon ...

However ... i made some short videofile from the first workin version of that weapon ...
That muzzleflash will stay i think but the shooting sound and the grafical effect of the bullets will be changed ...
In this version the animationframes of the Weaponbase arent addet ... I didn make them till now cause this thing isnt really workin ... ill do this when we have the full working code of that weapon ...

http://docsmaps.kilu.de/video/alpha_cha ... action.avi

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

cool! i always wanted a gatling gun sort of thing in nexuiz. is this a reconception of the HLAC?

[Shoe]

From what he's said it seems to be for a completely independent mod.

[Doc-Pyton]

That mod is just Nexuiz ... but we are adding a few weapons ... The Problem with this weapons is that they arent placed in maps if that game ... so ill make some file for GTK so that anyone that wants can place this weapons in his maps ...
I will also place that weapons in my maps ...
However that things can only be used in addition with that mod ... without it just will not spawn ...

further we are workin on some little things that will make the game a bit more funny ... like a little function thats connectet to that standart keybinds "nice one" and this like ...
So that some sound will be played when u press that binds ...

We are also planing to add some other features like some autokick function that gets rid of spammers and thislike ...
I hope we'll get some nice new functions into the game ... like some new game mode or somethin like that ...

We dont want to replace the nexuiz weaponset ... like i said i will just replace some models with a bit better looking ones ...

[Zaarock]

niiice, nexuiz definately needs a minigun weapon sometime

good texturing, the animation works looks nice too.

[Doc-Pyton]

here's another video of that chaingun ... the impact, sound, and bullet effects are now final ... i think the only thing that's missing now are the animationframes of the basemodel ... like a bit shaking of the model when firering ...

And by the way yes ... when i created the design of that weapon and thought about its function and appearence i thought on the pulserifle of UT ... i hope this thing's different enought from the original i mindet on ...
We think a weapon like this dont need any second firemode ... maybe we will add some function to the second fire like "keep the barrel rolling with decrease the players movement speed" ... but we dont know till now ... that thing's pretty good atm and we dont want to destroy it with useless additional things ...

Backspin did good work on coding that thing ... after a bit warmingup time it starts to fire slowly similar to the rotation of the barrel ... and keeps goin faster till the it reaches the max speed ... ... the feeling to fire that weapon is pretty good ...
Backspin also codet it so that it everytime shots when one of that six barrels is in shot position ... he worked much on the details ... i never imagined that he would make his work so good ...

http://docsmaps.kilu.de/video/new_chargergun.avi

by the way in this video the weapon is no longer a replacement for the UZI ... we made it to a new weapon now ... all of its weaponcode is written by Backspin ... if anyone of u have questions to him about the codingworks ... just ask me and i will let him know ...