Collada Weapons not showing...

#1 Alright its the shape I am using, I exported a simple box and that worked first....so I guess I gotta fix my model for some reason, just odd that the engine would accept it, but not mount it in this case, is there a poly limit to mounted object once mounted?

#2 So the shape is visible in game, but when you mount it to the player it disappears? Weird.

Is it invisible in both 1st and 3rd person? Could be a problem with the shape bounds?

There's no poly limit for mounted shapes. Does the mounted shape have a 'mountPoint' node? If so, that node will end up attached to the player's 'mountX' node. If not, the shape origin will be used.

#3 Yeah i tied it with mountpoint, and muzzlepoint...then i tried just a box and it worked, so it was just the shape for some reason...not sure why but i got another model and it works great:O)

#4 Maybe the shape is inside the player model. You can correct this in the your_weapon.cs file.

datablock ShapeBaseImageData(your_weapon)
{
   // Basic Item properties
   shapeFile = "art/shapes/your_weapon/your_weapon.dts";
   emap = true;

   // Specify mount point & offset for 3rd person
   // Change eyeOffset to "0 0 0" for 1st person
   mountPoint = 0;
   //offset = "0 0 0"
   //eyeOffset = "0.1 0.4 -0.6";

With mountpoint, offset (1st person) and eyeOffset (3rd person) you can tweak the position of your weapon. Take a look at the stock weapon.cs in the art/datablock/weapons folder.

#5 Nope it was a invalid COLLADA shape, i have had the problem with 3 different models, one was a model with sub-models where some showed and some did not, but fixing some of the way the objects were assembled fixed that problem:O)

#6 Sounds like you worked around the issue, but just in case you have issues again... You mentioned that the same model appeared correctly as an item (unless I misunderstood that bit), so I figured it's worth suggesting you may have some missing detail meshes if you're using LOD. Might want to check it out in the in-game shape editor so you can manually test every LOD.

Also as Chris briefly mentioned make sure the model "bounds" mesh (regardless of whatever the in-game bounding box looks like) covers the whole thing, otherwise it might vanish when only part of it is visible in the close-up first person view and it technically goes out of rendering scope.