The models me and Gab are working on have cigs and cigars hanging from their mouth. Is it possible to asign a smoke sprite to the cig so it will look like it smoking? Also, can we make our models heads actually blow off w/ a headshot?

No and No.

You might be able to make a smoke effect using some clever bone work and additive textures.

- Jed

Actually he can make the head blow off, just move the head bone in the headshot anims.

Slight problem Cheeto - the bottom vertexes of the neck are attached to the body so if you try and pull the head off you'll have 2 problems:

1) Mr Rubber man stretchy neck technology.

2) Your head might end up somewhere wierd if say for example you were on the tower on Avalanche.

3) There is no point 3...

- Jed

That's why you suck the head into the chest. Then it looks alright. S'what I did for my headshot anims.

Originally posted by Cheeto
That's why you suck the head into the chest.

I've seen an MPEG like that once... :rolleyes:

- Jed

I once added a blood sprite to a player model to play with the headshot anim's, it sort of worked but looked crap, or did it crash my machine when it played ingame, i can't remember now. And i can't remember how i did it either, although i might of replaced the 3rd muzzle flash that dod does not use with a blood sprite, and added the event to the headshot anims. So it might be possible to make a smoke sprite to replace the 3rd muzzle flash, and add it to every anim, maybe.

Originally posted by Trp. Jed
No and No.

You might be able to make a smoke effect using some clever bone work and additive textures.

- Jed
i think you might be wrong :eek:

the same way you can add sprite attachments for muzzleflash... you can attach a sprite to the head or neck bone with smoke....

but then again i might be wrong :D

oh and to make the head blow off all you would have to do it place the heads in the qc where the helmets would be. wouldnt that work ?

You can make your heads get bloody when you're shot in it (or even cave in). I made a model like this a long time ago.

Originally posted by gabagoo
oh and to make the head blow off all you would have to do it place the heads in the qc where the helmets would be. wouldnt that work ?

then wouldn't a head plop off while another one still being attached to the body >_<

Originally posted by gabagoo

oh and to make the head blow off all you would have to do it place the heads in the qc where the helmets would be. wouldnt that work ?

Not the best idea really cos if a nade went off near by but didn't kill you you would be running around without a head lol

- Ska

Originally posted by Ska_Wars
Not the best idea really cos if a nade went off near by but didn't kill you you would be running around without a head lol

- Ska
omfg you gave me a awsome friggin idea!!!!!!11111111111111

Ok, how bout this, can we make the head suddenly miss a big chunk of it and have the helmet flyin' off become a piece of flesh?

It would be possible to a degree, that i know of

http://www.dayofdefeat.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8516&highlight=frag


http://www.dayofdefeat.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7777&highlight=bloody

Here is how for i got with the head shot anim's before dropping the project, although i might take it up again at a later date, possibly with Jeds para's.


Headshot (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/scitzo/headshotv2.0.gif)

Originally posted by {CoR} ez
Ok, how bout this, can we make the head suddenly miss a big chunk of it and have the helmet flyin' off become a piece of flesh?


What about modeling the head as it would look with the piece missing... then model the helmet with the chunk of flesh so that when the helmet is on the head it looks like the head is still whole... once a headshot occurs the helmet (with attached flesh) flies off and the wound is exposed ... ???

In theory it sounds right to me...


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