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You can attach objects to other objects on any bone, and the storage + clipboard will re-create the whole set. Database storage and copying / pasting now works with attachments. This allows server admins to create their own materials without having to recompile, by only adding new sounds and particles. You can specify materials as strings, and sounds / particles are automatically fetched. Note that if you don't have a player UID, anyone can edit your objects. Since my last post, I added support for persisting object owners, by using player UID instead of owner entity (ID's are used in CTS). On the bright side, the menu remembers the last animation keyframe you selected.ДЄnyway, I'm done coding for tonight. I don't agree with hard coding methods to identify models and default animation based on that, as anyone could put a custom model anywhere. Sounds like a bounding box bug to me, and not the animation. Otherwise, great job!ДЇalling through the floor should normally not happen. Setting different default animation for player models and/or making simple undo operation not to spam world with those would fix this nicely. Except for, maybe, small inconvenience when spawning playermodels - they default to animation set 0, which is death anim, and when you try to spawn one looking at the floor, they end up beneath it. (10-27-2011, 03:12 PM)Lord Canistra Wrote: Alright, the whole thing works wonderfully ingame. I'm rather excited about this idea, and hope others have positive thoughts and ideas about it too If done properly, this could be a big attraction in Xonotic, and we'd also be offering an open source alternative to Garry's Mod.

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Also, is there any support for scripting entities (eg: LUA)? I don't know how to script, but still asking if it would work.

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When you get bored of fighting or racing, this would be an awesome activity to have in Xonotic for relaxingДЄnyway, I wish to ask and discuss to what extent a sandbox / Garry's Mod system can be implemented in Xonotic, and if the head developers would accept and welcome such an idea. People could spawn objects around, pick them up and carry them around, give them ODE physics and shoot them to watch them fly, build all sorts of architecture in real time, or just foolishly spawn weapons and do whatever they want with them. In my opinion, it would be very fun regardless. Characters in Source engine games also have facial expressions and mouths that can be lipsync-ed, which no one would likely put effort to do for Xonotic players.

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Such will likely never be possible in Darkplaces and Xonotic to the same level, but I'd still like to code a sandbox feature to the extent possible. Where players can apparently animate rigged models in real time, play with ragdolls (a feature given no importance in Xonotic), script objects, etc. That by itself however, would never allow the editing possibilities I seen in GM / TF2. This would be a basic sandbox system, which would enable building in-game using any model available on the server. Later on, I would make a menu (similar to the team selection menu in functionality) which would allow doing all this through buttons and sliders. For animated models, players could also set the animation keyframe of that model, same way you do it in misc_gamemodel. Then, while looking at the model, they could edit its individual properties, such as physics (either static or ODE), if the object collides or is ghosted, change object colors (colormod and glowmod), and anything else that's safe to edit. A player can open the console, type 'g_sandbox_spawn models/somefolder/themodel.md3', and spawn an entity with the given mesh in the spot they are looking at. It would work just like g_lighteditor for rtlights. This should be fairly easy to do, and I plan to do it the following way: My initial idea (the one I wish to code in Xonotic presently) was to create a g_sandbox cvar (as mutator and not a gametype), which would allow players to spawn objects and edit their properties. With Garry's Mod, I also found it fun for the ability to build things, which seemed like a very fun activity (similar to MineCraft in this sense).Д®ven back when we had Nexuiz, I planned to do something similar here.

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Youtube is full of films created using those projects, and all sorts of other things were done too. I got reminded of it today, and thought I should discuss it here before attempting to code anything.ДЄlthough I never had Garry's Mod and got Team Fortress 2 just a week ago, I've always been fascinated with how people mod the Source engine, even using it to create things like animations and movies (both with GM, HL2 and TF2). I've been planning to code something in this sense for a while.