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SpaceWombat:

--- Quote from: BTAxis on March 30, 2008, 05:19:59 am ---Let's get something straight: firing from the shoulder should never EVER happen for the flamer, and not for fire modes of projectile weapons that fire more than one shot (automatic fire on the assault rifle, MG, SMG, minigun, PBW...). That stuff is all from the hip. And I don't care if you happen to be standing in front of a window. We can't take that sort of thing into account, or it'll all become way too tedious and complicated.

This technically already happens, but it doesn't happen correctly. See below.

Here's how the LOF system is most likely going to be improved, in a nutshell.

1) A change will be made so that the origin of fire is exactly at the weapon's muzzle. Right now, it is a fixed position for all weapons.
2) With the above, we can more easily allow weapons to be fired from the shoulder.
3) A small change in the accuracy code should allow for an accurate "perfect" line of fire, which should help with deciding if a shot is possible or not.

If this isn't enough for you, it's up to you to come up with something else, concretely.

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Ok, I'll get 80% of what I want. While I can agree to your point with the flamer (because it's REALLY heavy  ;) ) I don't see how you want to fire an assault rifle/standard mg in auto mode from the hip.  ???
Especially using autofire on an assault rifle you need to fire it from the shoulder to hit anything (anyone who ever used an automatic weapon knows what I'm talking about).
If you are going to change this in a way that different weapons can use different LOF please take this into account at least for the standard weapons.

I'm fine with the correct LOS/LOF calculation. There is no need to make it too complicated I sometimes have ideas about the impossible.  ::)

Actually I think it's part of the challenge to position the soldier correctly for an incoming enemy. The only thing that bothered me was the fact that I took extreme care of correct positioning and when my guy fired he just hit the chair while I was thinking it should have hit perfectly (ok, my fault but really annoying) as long as the LOF indicating crosshair is going to be a good estimator in the future I have no problem with the rest of the aiming systematics.

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