Would it be possible to make weapons react realisticly to what they fall on when they are dropped, rather than always falling horizontally, regardless of terrain? I would have thought that similar physics could be used for weapons as bodies, only it would be easier, as they are rigid.
Weapon Physics
- Thread starter Fred187
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Rag-doll is client side. So my bodies fall different from yours. Weapons can't be client side, because they have an effect on the gameplay. Applying physics to them would increase the serverload for very little gain.
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Weapons are synced anyway, at least the position afaik.
So maybe it's possible to have the weapon behave like a simple object using ragdoll physics but always falling towards this fixed synced position?
It might sound stupid but with this the weapon falls like a ragdoll and yet, it's position is the same for every player.
So maybe it's possible to have the weapon behave like a simple object using ragdoll physics but always falling towards this fixed synced position?
It might sound stupid but with this the weapon falls like a ragdoll and yet, it's position is the same for every player.
You mean like a strong gravity center somewhere where its supposed to land (like that super weapon in ChaosUT2) and on the way to that location it tumbles randomly rag-doll style?
Interesting, but it might look even weirder than it does now. We'd have to see it to decide whether its good or not.
A problem could be that the server has to decide a realistic position in the first place, or else we have the same problem as we have now, only that the gun looks better while its still on the way to its horizontal position (takes how long? 0.5 seconds? A full second?).
So the server has to do weapon physics anyway. We could as well link the clients to that.
It would cause the serverload I mentioned before though.
Interesting, but it might look even weirder than it does now. We'd have to see it to decide whether its good or not.
A problem could be that the server has to decide a realistic position in the first place, or else we have the same problem as we have now, only that the gun looks better while its still on the way to its horizontal position (takes how long? 0.5 seconds? A full second?).
So the server has to do weapon physics anyway. We could as well link the clients to that.
It would cause the serverload I mentioned before though.
I think people would react more strongly to weapons falling "realistically" towards a super strong graviational pull rather then what we have now 
Maybe you are missing the point? If the weapons would be exactly as in CSS it would just create a whole bunch of extra server load and for what? The server load is high enough as it is, really
It could be client-side and partially synced, so all the physics would be client-side, and the server could collect all the data to estimate an average position for the weapon (where it would automatically fall if the client had weapon physics turned off). As long as the physics code was fairly tight, each client wouldn't calculate the weapon to fall too far from the average (it could probably be done to be consistenly <0.25m), then the weapon pickup distance could be marginally increased. I don't know much about coding, so this is all completely theoretical.