Author Topic: Custom Projectile Help (Read 761 times)

Antallion · February 19, 2009, 03:25:48 AM

I made a custom prejectile (in blender).
Whenever the gun fires you can only see the projectile for a split second and then it goes invisible. If you fire the projectile at a really slow speed out of a brick it works fine. Help?

you can see it in first person view if muzzlevelocity is low.

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JD · February 20, 2009, 11:32:46 PM

What's a prejectile?
[/JK]
I've had the same issue with using custom bullets. However, that's only when I export with a LOD of 100. Maybe it's got something to do with this.

Antallion · February 21, 2009, 01:58:33 AM

Quote from: JD on February 20, 2009, 11:32:46 PM

What's a prejectile?
[/JK]
I've had the same issue with using custom bullets. However, that's only when I export with a LOD of 100. Maybe it's got something to do with this.

I dont speak milkshape.

What does LOD stand for?

Monty · February 21, 2009, 07:35:32 AM

It stands for Level Of Detail, and it dictates visual stuff on the model.

Ephialtes · February 21, 2009, 12:46:57 PM

LOD applies to all modelling programs so I suggest you read up on how to use them in Blender.

Antallion · February 21, 2009, 07:20:30 PM

Yeah, I will.

DarkStar · February 21, 2009, 09:01:46 PM

maybe its the detail32, because i've made custom projectiles in blender and they worked fine.

You need to make 2 empties, called Shape and Detail32. Parent your mesh to detail32 and then parent detail32 to shape.
Then export. There was a tut on rtb wiki but rtb wiki doesn't even work anymore. Atleast for me. Also if you're making vehicles, to make collision you need to make a collision box. Just a regular box around your mesh where you want your collision to be and name it either Col or LOSCol. It'll work without that but you get alot of console spam ingame. Then make an empty called col0 and parent your collision box to col0 and col0 to shape. You won't see the collision box ingame because its not parented to detail32.

JD · February 21, 2009, 09:04:52 PM

I figured out why it doesn't work in MS3D.
You have to set the LOD to -1. Maybe that will help you in some way.

Antallion · February 22, 2009, 02:53:43 AM

Quote from: DarkStar on February 21, 2009, 09:01:46 PM

You need to make 2 empties, called Shape and Detail32. Parent your mesh to detail32 and then parent detail32 to shape.

You need to do that with every model anyway. I'll look into the LOD and thanks for the info on the vehicles.

Loopyla1 · February 25, 2009, 05:01:21 PM

Quote from: DarkStar on February 21, 2009, 09:01:46 PM

maybe its the detail32, because i've made custom projectiles in blender and they worked fine.

You need to make 2 empties, called Shape and Detail32. Parent your mesh to detail32 and then parent detail32 to shape.
Then export. There was a tut on rtb wiki but rtb wiki doesn't even work anymore. Atleast for me. Also if you're making vehicles, to make collision you need to make a collision box. Just a regular box around your mesh where you want your collision to be and name it either Col or LOSCol. It'll work without that but you get alot of console spam ingame. Then make an empty called col0 and parent your collision box to col0 and col0 to shape. You won't see the collision box ingame because its not parented to detail32.

My head hurts now. Thank you.