[Weapon] Afterburner

Can you change that trigger to an old school 60's jetpack control ?


Yeaaaah baby

XD sorry, more trouble than it's worth at this point

Bad news, I'm not continuing this anymore. I've looked into making new Pyro animations to put in game and match with the weapon. I had hoped to be able to use the rigged maya file in the SDK for the animating, and I could get it all nice and well animated in maya using that, but that file doesn't match the actual in-game file in terms of scale (which is locked on the rigged model) and skin weights, so I couldn't export it to the game.

I even attempted a work-around where I constrained each bone/joint on the rigged model to the in-game model, which seemed to work, but didn't pan out in the end (even if all the constraints worked as I intended, that was when I discovered that the skin weights were different per model, so there's no guarantee that the animations would look right).

So I'm going to shelf this one until such a time when there are better tools/methods for adding completely new weapons to the game, new animation sets and all.

Oh well, has still been a valuable learning experience. Thanks for all your comments

I *can* sent the models to valve, but it's really a tricky item.

1. I have very specific ideas for the animations, some of which would effect gameplay with the weapon.
2. The cord between the trigger and jet engine needs to be manually animated. I'm willing to do it, but I suspect valve would not, and if anything would redesign the trigger themselves (which I've also said is too much trouble - redoing UV's, retexturing, rebaking AO, reboning).
3. In the running animation, you have to consider that the right leg can't move as far forward as the left because the fuel connector is in the way (design oversight XD), the weapon has to be held at a right angle, slightly tilted so that the turbofan is closer to the ground.
4. I should at least do the flames myself. While not firing, there should be a yellow glow and heat waves coming from the vents near the front. When it fires, the heat waves should stop, the glow should start to dissipate, and the proper afterburner should shoot fire in a circular fashion, which means either a new particle effect, and possibly new geometry and texture.

To summarize: It's too far from finished, and too much work for Valve to do and still give me a 25% cut, if they would even decide to do it.

I'll update this post in a while with the (for now) final versions of the model in red and blu form.

lol... anyway here.



I've got some ideas of what I can still do with this project, but I'm not going to 'announce' anything now in case I fail later and bring further shame on my family...

Looks pretty damned epic!

Way to raise the dead! But thanks

I did end up doing some animations for this btw. But didn't have enough time to do them all before my course started. Animating and getting the anims into the game wasn't actually as hard as I thought. It just required getting an older version of maya which the Valve Source Engine Plug-ins actually worked in.

And I never got the cable animating how I wanted it to.