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Topic Starter	Topic: Replacing stock Q3 weapons with custom ones
vinny Grunt Joined: 20 Feb 2011 Posts: 57	Posted: 02-04-2014 11:47 AM                  I have modeled a few weapons and i'm looking into replacing the stock Q3 ones with mine. However, i noticed that the code responsible for loading weapons is really "coupled" with the stock weapons: there's a lot of switch's and if's depending on the weapon, for loading some parts of the model, or rotating other parts... a real mess. Does anyone with a better experience with the Q3 codebase could guide me (or point me some tuts/docs) into the job of replacing the weapon models? Which files have weapon-specific loading/switching? For example: to replace the machine gun, i have to alter a few files with MD3 loading of separate parts, and other files to make the weapon rotate (i have to disable that for my model), etc.
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Takkie Commander Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 101	Posted: 02-04-2014 12:46 PM                  Here's a tutorial about adding a new weapon. http://www.quake3hut.co.uk/q3coding/more!/new%20weapons.htm It might be a starting point for what you are looking for. Perhaps somebody else here can help you better detail... _________________ slugs and rockets
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vinny Grunt Joined: 20 Feb 2011 Posts: 57	Posted: 02-16-2014 05:04 AM                  I have noticed that this tut does not cover adding first-person weapon model. How is this done?
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UglyFoot Commander Joined: 22 Jul 2011 Posts: 139	Posted: 02-18-2014 05:52 AM                  Do you really need to alter the code to do this? What's exactly what you want to do? You can take a look at other custom models, it might help.
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vinny Grunt Joined: 20 Feb 2011 Posts: 57	Posted: 08-25-2014 07:48 PM                  I just find the whole thing difficult because the code is so tightly coupled. Adding a new weapon is a nightmare.
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