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Uppy
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Posted: 18th Oct 2003 02:41
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i was just wondering, when making a First person shooter, how would you go about determining which part of the body you've shot?
i know you can just shoot the object/person in general and the collision detection will sort the rest out, but what if you want to hit specific parts of the body like head shots and so on?
thanks.
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Northern Fist
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Posted: 18th Oct 2003 03:25
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I'd like to know myself. I think that there is a way to do collision with individual limbs. If not then you could do math collision with boxes or spheres that remain attached to the limb or particular part of the model constantly.

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PoHa!84
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Posted: 18th Oct 2003 03:27 Edited at: 18th Oct 2003 03:28
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Well, there might be an easier way, but it doesn't look like anyone else is giving a suggestion, so I'll try and help:

For each limb that you want to detect if it was hit by a bullet or not, make a sphere/cube/cone/whatever, and hide it. Place each one at a specific spot on the target and detect if it gets hit by the bullet. Probably need a glue command in there somewheres, too.

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John H
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Posted: 18th Oct 2003 06:57
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You could do it another way as well. You could have a type for the enemies that holds collision data. Which areas are which parts of the body etc. If the bullets array data conflicts with the enemies array data, then you know where it hits

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Mussi
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@ RPGamer
that seems to be hard one, could you give an example.

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Why not just work out the height of the collision?

You know the angle of fire, the start height and the distance (or can work them out), so you can just use that to work out the collision height ... if it's above a certain height, it must be a headshot.

For example, if your gun height is 10, the angle of fire is 2 degrees upwards, and the distance is 50, then the following line will give you the height of the collision.



Use negative numbers for upward angles, positive numbers for downward angles.
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hexGEAR
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if your using dbpro and you models use limbs simply use the "limb collision" command, if your using dbclassic i'd suggest using PoHa!84's method (hide the collision objects), it's very easy and very accurate!

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