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How Many Attachments to a Player?

by Will Harrison · in General Discussion · 03/04/2005 (10:53 am) · 5 replies

Is there a suggested limit to the amount of attachments you can make to a player model in stock TGE?

For example, would it be practical to have an attachment to pretty much every limb/extremity?

Like Helmet to Head, Shoulder Armor to Shoulders, Gauntlets to Arms, Boots to Feet, and so on.....

Is TGE, out of the box, designed for this amount/kind of attaching or is attaching intended for only weapons and perhaps mounting a banner/flag to the back of the player, etc.?

Also, I'm concerned if every attachment will shadow correctly...?

Is there a significant performance hit for having characters built this way, or is it not a problem whatsoever?

Thanks, it will help me alot to know this. :)
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Torque 3D Owner dsfsd
#1
03/04/2005 (11:56 am)
Pretty sure the mount points cap out at 8 total (0-7) without code changes.

Torque Owner Stefan Lundmark
#2
03/04/2005 (4:00 pm)
You will also find yourself in trouble if you need to bend these attachments, for instance when wearing body armour.

Torque Owner Josiah Wang
#3
03/04/2005 (8:27 pm)
There is a resource somewhere that allows up to 32 (?) i think mount points. As to the shadows, i'm pretty sure they do....weapon shadows show up fine, and they are mounts.

Torque 3D Owner Michael Cozzolino
Big Monk Games
#4
03/05/2005 (3:43 pm)
I think this may be a better solution www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=2150

Torque Owner Will Harrison
#5
03/05/2005 (8:17 pm)
Thanks everyone.

I think I will make the hair/helmet attachable and also the item/weapon in the left and right hand... and everything else will be modeled in directly.