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Weapon looks odd in first person mode

by Dan Keller · in Torque Game Engine · 03/16/2007 (12:41 pm) · 9 replies

It looks fine in showtool, but in the game the perspective is kind of off. The front looks very small, and I can't even see the rear sight. It looks sort of long and skinny. The object isn't the problem, there's something about how it's drawn in first person mode that makes it look weird.
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Torque Owner Tim Heldna
#1
03/16/2007 (5:19 pm)
Aye. Torque has some problems with its perspective code, always has.

Torque 3D Owner Dan Keller
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#2
03/22/2007 (2:23 pm)
Is there any way to fix it?

Torque Owner Tim Heldna
#3
03/22/2007 (6:55 pm)
Try changing the position of the gun with the eyeOffset value. You can usually find a position that hides the perspective problem fairly well. Either that or scale your weapon slightly larger.

Torque 3D Owner Dan Keller
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#4
03/25/2007 (7:55 pm)
Is there some variable I can expose to script that will let me change how the perspective is drawn?

Torque Owner Tim Heldna
#5
03/25/2007 (7:58 pm)
No.

Unless you want to rewrite and fix a whole lot of (complicated) rendering code you're just going to have to live with it.

Torque Owner PrvtHudson
#6
03/25/2007 (8:18 pm)
You can create a larger gun and swap it out for the regular one when not in first peron. There is a resource on that. Works ok. Shadows are off thow :-(.

Torque Owner Mark Junior
#7
03/27/2007 (6:01 am)
Use the eyeoffset value, change the values around and get it to the position you want, thats what i did.

Torque 3D Owner Dan Keller
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#8
03/27/2007 (7:26 pm)
I've tried messing with eyeoffset and it doesn't help. Where is the code that controls how shapebaseimages are rendered?

Torque Owner PrvtHudson
#9
03/27/2007 (7:34 pm)
I think this is what you are after. www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=9846