Is it possible to not draw the gun on screen?
e.g. cg_drawgun 0 in Quake3

I don't like seeing the gun when playing ^^. (this is with all FPS games)

r_drawviewmodel 0

is that allowed in ladder matches?

It is however allowed to manipulate the config.cfg/autoexec.cfg for improvements according the FPS (frames per second) and the HUD.

Either you try to argument that it will gain FPS or its part of the hud

One would assume that it does not visually give a significant advantage but it does have a placebo effect upon me.
Besides, consider all the quake3 based games and tournaments -> this is usually allowed with the exception of iron-sight based games. However Nexuiz has an crosshair, hence that is not a problem.

Thanks Nexuiz seems a lot better than I last played it, I might get into it now ^^. If you're lucky, I might even have a look at the source code and maybe contribute something...

of course it is allowed in the ladder to set r_drawviewmodel to 0

GreEn`mArine wrote:of course it is allowed in the ladder to set r_drawviewmodel to 0

But its not allowed to replace the RL model, for instance? I find that a tad incoherent.

Setting r_drawviewmodel is using an option that Nexuiz provides - replacing content is playing a different game.

IMHO the ladder should have a "white list" of content replacements that you are allowed to use, like the invisible gibs, or an alternate RL model.

Well one thing on that list should be a no-gibs pk3 files. Its the same as the cl_nogibs option but the option REALLY removes the gibs, they are not even on the demo then. It looks really ugly if you made a nice frag and want to put it in a demo and it has no gibs..