FPS Constructor - Makes creating an FPS easy!

Thanks for the quick reply Jason,
Yes, I know isPrimaryWeapon is checked/unchecked in the inspector, and the GunScript for the Secondary Weapon is dragged, and tried two ways, one is a second GunScript in the same weapon (same as FAL has) and also creating a new weapon just for the AltFire with all the right checkboxes selected and still can't make it work.

Actually if I make a new clean install of the FPS Constructor 1.1, and change the AltFire type for the FAL from Launcher to Melee, doesn't work for me, I just go to the box and hit it, no sound no animation no FX. I must say that the by default FAL's Launcher works, I just change it to melee and then nothing. I tried also the Axe as AltFire but also nothing.

Anyone succeed with this? Thanks everybody in advance.
Cheers

 

@BGT Ah, that means that the problem is actually the melee weapon itself, and not the fact that it is a secondary. The melee weapon type is a little odd. Did you set up the hitbox for your melee weapon? It's not very clear from looking at the inspector, but you need a collider with the script 'HitBox' somewhere under the melee weapon in the hierarchy.

 

You should really add mouse smoothing if you haven't yet. Aiming at something far away with the scope is useless. I know someone mentioned it is bulky. What we need is this package combined with the features of "The Ultimate FPS Camera"'s features. both are great, this one in particular but the lack of mouse smoothing is frustrating to me and I'm no programmer so I can't add it.

 

@Siracha I'll look into adding an option for it in the incoming update.

 

Hi again Jason,
Yes, I set up the hitbox for the melee weapon, exactly same way as the Axe (collider, rigidbody, hitbox, etc..) and couldn't make it work, so finally I made it work in another way, not very clean but works fine for me.

I have as primary weapon a machinegun with a hitscan gunscript, and another machinegun (same model) as secondary weapon with a melee gunscript. So when pressing AltFire I play the altfire animation (hit with the machineguns stock) in the primary weapon. Damage, animation, sound and force seems fine.
Thanks for the support!

 

@BGT Thanks for bringing this to my attention! I actually found and fixed the problem. It'll be in the next update, but here's the code if you want to change it now:

In PlayerWeapons.js line 103, replace

with

 

Hi Jason, Was looking at documentation and did not see nothing abought multiplayer, I know this has no networking in it but, is your pakage easy to set up a multiplayer sistem if I already have the networking ?

 

@staincorb The information you need for multiplayer should be easily accessible, I just don't know of any examples of it being done yet.

I would be very interested in helping someone who is using the package for multiplayer, so if you decide to use it email me and I'll work with you to make as easy as possible to integrate.

 

Sounds cool, im going to test out a nother sistem for now, but since I cant really program probably buy your package in the end.

 

Hi!

I have a few questions.

1. Is it possible to add prone?

2. Is it possible to make a script like this: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/126886-Ultimate-FPS-Camera-RELEASED work with the FPS constructor?

3. Is it possible to have X amount of attachments for a weapon without making another model for it?

4. (I'm sure this is already possible) Can there be a plasma based weapon that works off of a battery (Sort of like halo plasma weapons)?

5. Is it possible to have different aiming animations? For example, different animations for firing from the hip and a different animation for firing while aimed down the sight.

6. Is it possible to have a lock-on weapon lock on to certain things? Like a vehicle for example.

6a. Is it possible to have finishing moves with certain weapons? Like Battlefield 3's knife?

6b. Is it possible to have certain weapons take a ton of damage on certain objects? Like a backstab in TF2?

6c. Is it possible to have damage multipliers? For example, the head and neck of a character is a 1.5x multiplier.

7. Is it possible to have things like Equipment? Like throwable C4, claymore, bubble shield, etc.

7a. Is it possible for a weapon that turns the view on a camera? For example, It turns the camera of a character in multiplayer?

8. Is it possible to have gun kick and view kick? For example, Shooting a gun makes the camera and gun shake.

9. This may be hard to do but is it possible to have bullet drop?

10. I am sure this is very hard to do but... Is it possible to have a blend into environment? For example, Can the player press a button to blend into a bush or something to make it hard for AI/players to see the player "blended in"?

 

@Nighthawk hey!

1. I'm looking into it for future updates.

2. I haven't looked into it specifically, but I think it should work. There is a component that controls weapon motion in the FPS Constructor that could probably be replaced with the ultimate FPS Camera's movement. If anyone wants to try combining them I can help out.

3. You never *need* a model for an attachment unless you want it, so it really comes down to that. For the FAL I have two versions of the model's arms - one with grenade launcher and one without - because they have to be positioned differently. Once I have that, though I could probably use those arms for as many underbarrel attachments as I like. Things like scopes can always just be stuck on top of a model.

4.That would need to be a charge weapon, but yes. There is actually a new example laser that uses an overheat system instead of ammo.

5. You would need to write a very small script (or email me to write one) to switch the firing animations, but yes it would be possible.

6. Yes. This is another case where it needs a charge weapon, but as you can see by the seeker missiles in the demo (probably my favorite demo weapon) lock-on is completely possible.

6a. It's possible, although I probably wouldn't make it a weapon. The FPS Constructor has functions and variables in place to let you override the standard behavior, so in this case you could stop movement, hide the weapon, and do a cool kill animation when you hit a certain key behind an enemy.

6b. I can think of ways to do that.

6c. Yes. That would be done by the damage receiver on the enemy.

7. Don't think of a 'weapon' in this system as just a gun, it can really be just about anything. A projectile weapon can use any rigidbody as a projectile, so you could set the projectile to be c4/claymore/etc. You could also follow my advice for 6a if you don't want it to be a weapon you switch to.

7a. I'm not sure I follow? I suppose that you could move the camera if you wanted to, although that would be somewhat difficult.

8.The gun does not shake individually from the camera (because that's covered by the animation), but there is shake/kickback involved. You can control how much there is (both x and y), how far it can go, and how quickly it returns to normal.

9. It would be easy, actually. Right now the traditional guns use raycasts, which don't drop. If you want bullet drop, just switch them over to a projectile weapon and put physics on the bullet projectile.

10. If you have a shader to do that, it wouldn't be hard. The upcoming upgrades system actually has scripts to swap out the materials on your weapon, so you could use that. I imagine the hard part would be getting the right shader for the blend-in effect.

 

Jason,

I have an odd issue with the mobile setup and happens both in my app and your demo. After the player dies and does a "try again", the level is reloaded properly, but the controller can no longer turn or look up or down.

 

@Drunken Monkey

It looks like there's an issue with LockCursor - the 'mobile' variable is actually doing the opposite of what it should. Try going into LockCursor.js and replacing the body of Awake with just 'mobiel = false;'

 

Hello, Jason

how long till the next release? any news? how many and what new features will include in version 1.2 ?

 

It's not version 1.2 yet, because there are some things that aren't done yet. Here's the list for 1.1.1:

I'm working on submitting it today or tomorrow, although google docs kind of broke the documentation, which is slowing it down.

 

good news.

I suggest to post a roadmap when each update coming and update it every week.
such as below
http://bugs.openmw.org/projects/openmw/roadmap

good luck

 

Just submitted 1.1.1 to the asset store! I'm excited about this one, both because it's way more C# friendly, and the upgrades system is pretty awesome! Because the store isn't included yet, you'll have to activate the upgrades manually. Here are the release notes:

Here's a video of the upgrades in action (showing some custom upgrade examples). It's from the previous release of the upgrades, but still applies.

 

1.1.1 is live!

 

Jason,

What are the proper upgrade steps for 1.1.1?

Getting a tone of these..

Assets/Plugins/DB Upgrades_Store/Upgrades/Components/Boolean/AutoFire.js(1,15): BCE0018: The name 'GunScript' does not denote a valid type ('not found').

 

@Drunken Monkey just drag the FPSConstructor folder into plugins (this will also make C# integration easier).

 

Jason,

Still having some mobile issue after dying. Setting Mobile=False just breaks the whole control system. Any suggestions?

 

is their an easy way (or feature request) to have to pickups (ammo and health) be triggered by simply walking into it, rather than pressing the "interact" button

cheers

 

@Drunken Money That's very strange, I'm not having similar behavior at all. I'll look into it.

@mikevanman you can just take what it already does, but call the function with a trigger or something.

 

Yeah, the player never gets actived, so I assume lockcursor is not getting called for some reason. Works great until your die.

I am testing on a couple android devices. HTC Thunderbolt and a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1... I'll dig out an iphone and test on it.

 

@Drunken Monkey the idea is that the 'mobile' variable prevents LockCursor from causing problems, there just must be an edge case where that isn't happening.

 

Just get the package, and it's great! I trying to build it for Android - and all seems to work fine on my device (Samsung GalaxyTab). But i have one (sorry if stupid) question: How can i implement Joysticks from Unity's Standard Assets Mobile to FPS Constructor's Input system? I mean, i know how to setup touch buttons, But how can i set up standard Joystick GUI for Player control (left joystick move player, right joystick move aim)? Thanks!

 

@angel_666 Thanks!

To add joysticks, you just need the joysticks to change the axis values on the 'Horizontal', 'Vertical', 'MouseX', and 'MouseY' Input items. These can be found under the InputManager object (childed to the Manager). You can take a look at Tilt.js for an example of implementing controls.

 

Hi, thanks for quick answer! But i'm newbie in scripting and not fully understood you first phrase

We have InputManager, and we have a standard Joystick script with GuiTexture. What i must do next? I see the Tilt example, and i understand how it works, but i break my head with joysticks.. If we use tilt, we get inputs from device accel., but joystick script does not tell us any axes.. It tell just texture position.. As i see in standard mobile FirstPersonControl.js, it use Position:

Thanks and sorry if i ask elementary things..

 

@angel_666 I'm not sure, I imagine you would get the values from the position of the joystick or finger? Then those values would go to the axis.

 

@DastardlyBanana
Ok. I found my problem: It seems that i can't declare Joystick, because it can't seen from "plugins" folder...

 

@angel_666 just drag it into 'plugins'.

 

Just real quick I want to say thank you to the guys at DB, they have made my life making my game so much easier. I have one question though, how do you add reload sounds to weapons?

please respond ASAP, I am planning on putting a demo video on youtube. I will include a link in a post once its up, I just want some reload sounds before I put it up.

Thank you

 

@slimjim2417 Thanks! I'm looking forward to seeing the demo!

Reload sounds are actually linked to the reload animation (there wasn't another way to make them work with the ability to change reload speeds). First duplicate the animation asset in your project and replace the version on your weapon. Then open the animation editor, and use animation events to trigger the functions on ReloadSounds.js.

 

ok when I go to add the sound to the animation event i select, ex, play4, it says the function is not supported thus the sound will not play.

 

@slimjim2417 is there definitely a 'ReloadSounds' component on that object?

 

yes i added the script and the sounds i wanted into the slots

 

@slimjim2417 Huh. It's telling me the same thing, but the sound is playing fine.

 

@DrunkenMonkey Found the problem! Turns out that a static 'freeze' variable set on death was causing the problem. To fix it, just add the following line:

To line 34 of DeathEffects.js, right before the call to Application.LoadLevel(0).

 

nice. I will test it out tomorrow.

btw, here is a sample of what I am working on...

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/22859160/ZombieKill/WebPlayer/WebPlayer.html

 

@Drunken Monkey Very cool! Is it going to be one mobile, or are you just trying out the controls?

Also - to this or any other projects made with the FPS Constructor, if you want me to link/tweet your game's website or trailer I'm happy to! I'd also love to see more stuff posted here!

 

The plan is mobile first, iPhone/iPad... Really my learning "How To" project.....

 

That fixed solved the issue after dying.. Thanks for the help...

 

hi , i buy your product yesterday
my idea is to do a FPS on IOS, ill do some videos
well
im a littel bit lost, hope you could help

i start an empty project
and import the package
opened the mobilescene, to customize

i add the the layers and inputs as your doc indicates

but i not able to get it working, i got unity 3.5.2 pro with ios and android license
there are al least two problems

1 the SwitchWeapon under Input manager is red on hierarchy and tells on the inspector that the "Missing" and "The source Prefab or model has been deleted

2 the is an runtime error
NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
AimMode.Update () (at Assets/Plugins/FPS Constructor V1/ScriptsDB/WeaponScripts/AimMode.js:140)

and im lost
can you help
what im doing wrong?
thanks a lot in advance

 

@cloudfun Hi,

The first thing shouldn't be a problem, it'll work fine without the prefab. For the second issue, find the 'Bearded Axe' weapon and check 'Primary Weapon' under 'Alt-Fire Properties'.

 

Hmmmm I don't know why but my sounds still wont play, I put the script on the gun game object (the physical model) that i also put the gun child animation script on as your documentation says, all my anims work fine I just can't get the sounds to play in the reload anim

 

@slimjim are you sure the sound itself isn't the problem? I have the same error message that you did and it plays fine for me...

 

hi jason thanks a lot for your response, fast and perfect

can i made another question?
now it runs on my ipad perfect,is compiles etc
but the movements on the ipad are good , but al leats in the demoscene theres no crosshair and im not able to look at the enemys or turn , look up or look down, just use the gyroscopes to go or go back

is my fault? or i must to implement the crooshair and camera movements to fllow the crosshair etc?
could you give a point to start to do that?
thanks in advace jason

 

@cloudfun I'm not sure what would cause that, but it's not your fault. The full movement should be supported in mobilescene.

Are you geting any errors, or is it just not working?

 

no i dont get any errors
it compiles, works fine good performance etc
but theres no movement either crosshair like in pc that mouse movements moves the camera etc

any idea?

 

@cloudfun is your project set to compile to mobile? Make sure that you set your project to an iOS project.