True First Person Demo 2012-04-18

[Machinima]

@nabiul, try looking at the default rotation of the character or the player start. When I used this TFP some time ago, I recall I had some problem of the character not looking correct. I think I may have given a small non-zero rotation to correct the issue. Hope this helps

[nabiul]

It's going to the reference pose for my character because my idle animation isn't 'doing enough stuff'. If I use an animation like walking forward for idle, it works fine. When it goes to the reference pose though, the collision box for the gun moves up and down showing that my idle animation is playing.

[jlhill17]

Thanks, slowJusko! Great Work!

[atmadaenygma]

neither can I it seems to be down

[slowJusko]

Been a crazy month and a bit.
Will see about getting a more permanent home for the demo soon.

[Ray Jones 312]

For the life of me I cannot figure out how to increase the movement speed of players who are ironsighting. How does one do this?

[lentinant]

Ray Jones 312, check code, where ironsight is handled, and look how GroundSpeed is changed. If it is set to certain value, change this value, if it is set to another variable, find this variable in default properties and change it.

[Ray Jones 312]

@lentinant
Thanks anyway, but believe me when I say I've tried that. I see no modification to groundspeed relating to ironsighting in either his pawnclass, playercontroller, master weapon class, or inventory manager.

[slowJusko]

@lentinant
Thanks anyway, but believe me when I say I've tried that. I see no modification to groundspeed relating to ironsighting in either his pawnclass, playercontroller, master weapon class, or inventory manager.

There is, but the check is under tfpPawn::IsRunning() & tfpPawn::IsWalking().

In SetWalking, if the player is NOT running, GroundSpeed is multiplied by 0.35.

tfpPawn.uc

/*
IsRunning
    Return true if we are running... which at the moment is true so long as we're not aiming.
*/
simulated function bool IsRunning()
{
    return (bWeaponAiming == false);
}

/*
SetWalking
    KRIS - Used to toggle sprinting and set ground speed.
*/
event SetWalking(bool bNewIsWalking)
{
    local vector X, Y, Z, Dir;
    local bool bWasSprinting;

    bWasSprinting = bIsSprinting;

    if (bNewIsWalking != bWantsToSprint)
        bWantsToSprint = bNewIsWalking;

    // if don't want to sprint anymore, clear bNeedToReleaseSprint
    if (bNeedToReleaseSprint && !bWantsToSprint)
        bNeedToReleaseSprint = false;

    GetAxes(Rotation, X, Y, Z);
    Dir = Normal(Acceleration);

    // only switch to sprinting if not strafing and moving forward
    if (bWantsToSprint && !bNeedToReleaseSprint && (Physics == PHYS_Walking)
     && !IsTimerActive('ChangingWeaponsFinished') && !IsTimerActive('PickupFinished') && (Abs(Y Dot Dir) < 0.5) && ((X Dot Dir) > 0))
        bIsSprinting = true;
    else
        bIsSprinting = false;

    // just starting sprinting?
    if (bIsSprinting && !bWasSprinting)
        // stop aiming
        SetAimState(false);
    
    if (bIsSprinting)
    {
        if (GroundSpeed != Default.GroundSpeed * 1.5)
            GroundSpeed = Default.GroundSpeed * 1.5;
    }
    else if (IsRunning())
    {
        if (GroundSpeed != Default.GroundSpeed)
            GroundSpeed = Default.GroundSpeed;
    }
    else if (GroundSpeed != Default.GroundSpeed * 0.35)
        GroundSpeed = Default.GroundSpeed * 0.35;
}

[Ray Jones 312]

There is, but the check is under tfpPawn::IsRunning() & tfpPawn::IsWalking().

In SetWalking, if the player is NOT running, GroundSpeed is multiplied by 0.35.

tfpPawn.uc

/*
IsRunning
    Return true if we are running... which at the moment is true so long as we're not aiming.
*/
simulated function bool IsRunning()
{
    return (bWeaponAiming == false);
}

/*
SetWalking
    KRIS - Used to toggle sprinting and set ground speed.
*/
event SetWalking(bool bNewIsWalking)
{
    local vector X, Y, Z, Dir;
    local bool bWasSprinting;

    bWasSprinting = bIsSprinting;

    if (bNewIsWalking != bWantsToSprint)
        bWantsToSprint = bNewIsWalking;

    // if don't want to sprint anymore, clear bNeedToReleaseSprint
    if (bNeedToReleaseSprint && !bWantsToSprint)
        bNeedToReleaseSprint = false;

    GetAxes(Rotation, X, Y, Z);
    Dir = Normal(Acceleration);

    // only switch to sprinting if not strafing and moving forward
    if (bWantsToSprint && !bNeedToReleaseSprint && (Physics == PHYS_Walking)
     && !IsTimerActive('ChangingWeaponsFinished') && !IsTimerActive('PickupFinished') && (Abs(Y Dot Dir) < 0.5) && ((X Dot Dir) > 0))
        bIsSprinting = true;
    else
        bIsSprinting = false;

    // just starting sprinting?
    if (bIsSprinting && !bWasSprinting)
        // stop aiming
        SetAimState(false);
    
    if (bIsSprinting)
    {
        if (GroundSpeed != Default.GroundSpeed * 1.5)
            GroundSpeed = Default.GroundSpeed * 1.5;
    }
    else if (IsRunning())
    {
        if (GroundSpeed != Default.GroundSpeed)
            GroundSpeed = Default.GroundSpeed;
    }
    else if (GroundSpeed != Default.GroundSpeed * 0.35)
        GroundSpeed = Default.GroundSpeed * 0.35;
}

Wow, that was right under my nose, Thanks!

[slowJusko]

Wow, that was right under my nose, Thanks!

Yeah, I hate it when that happens to me too :P
Spend three hours on something, perhaps even find a solution.
Then someone points out there is a single boolean value you could have changed.
Etc.

/facepalm

[Lux87]

Such a nice job man! Will you share the files anymore?

[slowJusko]

Always.
Patience

[Ray Jones 312]

Yeah, I hate it when that happens to me too :P
Spend three hours on something, perhaps even find a solution.
Then someone points out there is a single boolean value you could have changed.
Etc.

/facepalm

Yeah, you scaled the value rather than adjust the integer through subtraction so I was just plainly looking for the wrong things. :P

[daimaku]

hello, tried to download the files from gamefront, but i got 403 forbbiden error, any ideas on what happend with the file ?

[Omar007]

@Daimaku: I've no problem accessing the file on GameFront.

@slowJusko: Any reason in particular you chose to create this with the UT classes as your base instead of the UDK classes (or even higher up the inheritance tree)?
I actually started to (trying at least) separate your code from the UT dependencies to get a nicer and cleaner package (no more disabling UT stuff or working around UT code for instance) and to use that as a base for my project.
I'm mainly focusing on the parts that I'd use myself. For instance, no FaceAPI and no differentiation between weapon and attachment. (most of your code that will be intact after I'm done is calculations I guess :P)
It's not really going smooth though, part of which is because I didn't write the original code
I don't know if you're actually doing this yourself already??

[slowJusko]

Original code was from my tactical FPS project, which did extend from the UDK classes. For the TFP demo, I wanted people to be able to actually play something, so decided on the UT classes. If you look on some my earlier vids on youtube, you'll see the former code in action.

I've since taken all the work from my project and put it to good use in Ground Branch.

I do intend to create a new version of the TFP demo sometime in the future, if and when I get the chance to. The updated version will be based on the UDK classes and the 'new project' option. The biggest hurdle I'll have in doing so, aside from time, is getting a basic player model and animations together. They are not something I am even remotely skilled at

[slowJusko]

Added alternate download link on the TFP page.
Hope Mediafire is ok.

[daimaku]

thank you slowJusko, mediafire is fine, working rigth, i will take a look a it now.

thanks again.

[Jenovah]

Wow This looks really cool, Thanks for sharing!

I am really new to UDK and in the instructions it mentions

"Decompress to fresh UDK install" I have seen "Fresh install" in a couple threads what exactly does this mean? Sorry for such a noob question, but I can't quite figure out how to get this running to try it out.

Thanks in advance

[Jenovah]

Wow This looks really cool, Thanks for sharing!

I am really new to UDK and in the instructions it mentions

"Decompress to fresh UDK install" I have seen "Fresh install" in a couple threads what exactly does this mean? Sorry for such a noob question, but I can't quite figure out how to get this running to try it out.

Thanks in advance

[jpvg]

A fresh install is one without other modifications. Those threads are probably asking people to do so to avoid any complications that there might be with a installation that have modifications allready.

[thommoboy]

Hey,

How can i add a custom animation(Like the walking) into your script?

[slowJusko]

In the TFP demo, walking is a blend in the animation tree of idle and run. It checks if the players speed is below a certain threshold and, if true, uses this blend.

[tegleg]

very nice work thanks for sharing

im messing around with the aim and dont understand how you have done it
can i ask what exactly this does? and how does it fit in with the rest?

// HACK - fix weapon aim
			if (Weapon != None)
			{
				if (Weapon.IsA('tfpWeap_LinkGun'))
					FocalPoint.Z -= Clamp(32 * (vLen / 256), 0, 32);
				else if (Weapon.IsA('tfpWeap_ShockRifle'))
					FocalPoint.Z -= Clamp(16 * (vLen / 256), 0, 16);
			}

thanks

[Goddler]

Hello,

How do you disable the head tracking/faceapi? whenever i compile i get an error about a missing smft32.dll

[slowJusko]

@tegleg: It was fixing the bots aiming too high.
Can't say that it worked too well

@Goddler: Search through the files for FaceAPI - can't miss it.

[Chosker]

hey Kris I'm curious if you've used DX11 tessellation in your Pawns along with your TFP. I myself have a similar true first person and when I use DX11 tessellation it destroys my framerate to like 5fps because of how tessellation automatically keeps making subdivisions the closer you get and the player pawn's meshes are sticking in the camera's face.
lowering the tesselation factors only gets me pretty much no tesselation for when looking at other pawns (unless I zoom in to an absurdly high level) but since my own pawn is still so close to the camera my framerate is still horrible.
for 2 days I've tried messing with the shader to reduce the tesselationfactors based on distance but I can't get something that will get me something both nice-looking and framerate-friendly. mind you, I'm only trying to subdivide my models a little bit
I'm using a reduced NearClip with a value of 5.0, but increasing to 25 didn't fix it either :/

[slowJusko]

No, haven't touched DX11.
I don't have a DX11 card

Can you turn off tessellation for an individual object, such as the local players model or is it a one-in all-in kinda deal?

[Chosker]

well I ended up having to turn off the player pawn's tesselation manually from code via a material param. it's a shame because seeing the guy's hands tesselated would've been the place where it'd be visible the most.
tesselation is part of the material so it's done per-material, not an all-in deal. however my player pawn and the other pawns share the same materials so I had to do it that way.

oh well thanks for your input

[slowJusko]

Perhaps it is something you should ask Epic about - controlling max tessellation.

[dazvolt]

I've got couple of errors about smft32.dll
Then I've tried to get in game, and... nothing changed. I mean, I can't see any tfp things and like that. Maybe it's stupid question that I need to press any button? I've checked the bindings but nothing seems to be working.

[slowJusko]

Missing Seeing Machines DLL's.
Search and comment out/remove any references to FaceAPI.
Should sort it.