🏳️‍⚧️Kyra🏳️‍⚧️ @kyra@awoo.space

@duskdev weapon bob & camera shake are uniquely well suited for script-generated motion. The animation system is best for characters & more complex objects, or things that are going to play out the same every time with two or three keyframes that would be a waste to script. Scripting weapon bob & stuff lets you easily plug a bunch of data in there to make it look good which would actually be more complex to do via animation. Also you can 100% do everything with animations in Godot. Don't though

@foone military stuff doesn't have computers in it as such, but they do have a lot of computer-adjacent cyber organs that turn electrons into a monochrome projection that describes your velocity in 3D space and things like that

@foone in my mecha setting, the "brains" used in security intensive applications are single-purpose analogue machines encased in a special radiation scattering ceramic with certain components placed slightly differently each time to avoid stuff like remote microwave beam hacking

@duskdev yeah i think your best bet is a subviewport+extra camera+render layer 2 viewmodel and lights that run set_layer_mask_value(2,true) on themselves in the ready function

@duskdev best answer I got for you is "it sure does man" (this is a joke I know it sucks).
As a game developer who has never created a product anyone has played, my favourite way to do an FPS gun is to make it an object in the world. (This is also a joke, because it's an accurate description of what I'm like)

I guess a constant question in engine design is which weird dirty hacks to include when basically every genre has different ones in order to work right

@duskdev in terms of lighting; the different render layer+subviewport method. Unfortunately I think you might wanna use an extended light which sets itself to be on render layer 1 and also 2 or wherever you keep your viewmodel

@duskdev I've used subviewports and also the disable depth testing flag available in materias/shaders

@duskdev I like them!

@duskdev the projection probably is a shadow internally given that shadows are textures masked into the light attenuation space anyway

@Ronflaix fuck flag

It's sad how much current events mirror how growing up my bullies were never punished. I was just punished for reacting to my bullies in any way

@mntmn yeah they had time to finish it this time

@duskdev been using it for a while but i still certainly have more ot learn