I have been working on my next project for a bit and was wondering if anyone could help me understand how to code this main part in the game. I know there are several ways to do it and I can probably work with any way but I need to figure out a good way to get multiple weapons to swing from the player's hand including weapons like a sword, axe, mace, and even a staff. Are there any example tutorials? Any help will do and Merry Christmas!!! Here is an example of what I am trying to do:

Hey Dega, ich you are able to read German you can take a look at my book. There I explain how to write a first person RPG and even hand out the finished code.

http://www.amazon.de/Spiele-entwickeln-m...1048&sr=8-1

Here is a video of my RPG:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amdZIno89gY

Offtopic: which game is that actually?

Ontopic: there are multiple ways, mostly depending on how complex you want the weapons to be. Do you have an abundant of weapons in the game? Or is it like most shooter games where you will have ~10 or less weapons?

Offtopic: That game is called Eternal Ring for the playstation 2. I play that game still with my friends. It is hard at first but then it gets soooooo fun. You start out with a sword and then create rings to use magic while in search of the Eternal ring. It's really fun!

Ontopic: I am thinking of using as many weapons as I can think up but so far I am going to start with a basic sword and go from there.

To PadMalcom: Hey thanks! I can't read German but I can use Google Translate! If it is a big piece then I can just work with it page by page. Thanks very much!<------okay never mind that lol. I was thinking you were showing me a pdf file for some reason. Sorry! The movie is perfect for what I am doing though. Thanks anyways! I just reposted.

Do you think you could show me a simple example on how to code an entity picking up three different weapons and using them? Weapon examples: sword, mace, and an axe. That's all I really need.

Well if you only have a few weapons you can add an action for each weapon. So when you pick up the item you can can create the item with its action:



The action of the item can than have things like
*when is the model visible (e.g. through a variable: var_weaponslot == 1)
*when it deals damage to an enemy (e.g. through c_trace or c_scan to check whether the weapon touches an enemy)
*its x, y and z coordinates (just use vec_for_bone to transfer the x/y/z coordinates of e.g. the 'right hand bone' to 'vector_myrightarm')
*the animations the sword uses etc.

If you have alot weapons, you can use an action for your 'right weapon' (or 'left weapon'). Through variables like e.g. var_weaponslot you can check which weapon the player has equiped.

There are ofcourse more possible ways and I dont know if this is the best one, but for me it works.

Okay thanks. I will do that. However, I am wondering on how I get the sword to animate with the player. Do I use c_rotate() with the code and if yes how to code that or how do I animate with MED somehow???

Instead of "idle" can I code that the same way as "swinging"? Do I make the model animate "swinging" in MED?

Maybe you should do some tuts before.

The trick is, weapon is moved and animated with the ( in this case ) "Right Hand" bone of the YOU (player) entity. So you only need to animate the weapon, if the weapon itself should do something. After using this code, your player should hold a weapon ( animated with him [and the weapon itself has no animation] ).

Note: You need to change "Right Hand" to the name of your right hand bone ^^
Edit: I would use this code for 3rd person. For a FPS, i would not give weapons to the players hand (this way).

Sorry I couldn't find any tutorials for GStudio A8 for something like this and are you saying for "swinging" I animate it in MED and code it to move at the same time? I am trying to use a different model for the player and the weapons.