You should make the difference between the arab soldier and the usa soldier greater. Otherwise it will be hard to play (because of friendly fire ^^).

A video of your scripting process would be interesting!

What I find especially interesting is the third person thing.
Do you already have methods for fluid and accurate camera movement and aiming?
And how do you handle animation blending with different animation sequences for upper body/lower body?

That's why I changed the soldier colours, but anyway It can be changed in the future



The camera point of view is this:



As you can see it's and hybrid between standard 3rd person view and 3rd person aiming, with mouse_right you can zoom a bit.

About blending animations, I use ent_bonerotate for the shoot animation (it's done by script) and then it's mixed with ent_animate with walk, run or idle animations.

I really don't like the cameras position, the character takes way to much of the screen and the field of view is fairly limited. Imo you can increase the cameras height by at least 120 pixels (pixels, not quants!)

put the character more in the side like Gears of Wars 2 :

And use some similar view for zooming :


Just ideas !

Dude, these aren't insurgency solders:

make sure to call them just "OPFOR"

Regarding the animation thing: Shooting animations fine, okay, can be done by script, but what about reloading, switching weapons and stuff like that?
I'd recommend you to use the ent.pose parameter and ent_blendpose in order to combine these animations with running, walking, etc - it works well, and makes also the transitions between the standard animations smoother.

Ok, I will try to work on the camera view.



In the game you can't reload and walk at the same time, it's just a gameplay decision, it could be done easily. But in another project I have I merge walking animations and shoot or reload using ANM_ADD, First you animate the legs and then with ANM_ADD you animate the arms, it also works good.

I also use ent_bone_rotate to rotate player's arms with camera tilt

Ok after some test I liked this result:

Standard view:



Zoomed view with mouse_right



Let me know your opinion.

Images taken on the game level DM_Garages by Rondidion, thanks him for letting me use it