Ok, so I have the basic restruc­tur­ing of the weapons con­tent and the first phase completed.

Here’s a shot of the full M4 with all of it’s var­i­ous com­po­nents linked in (using the sys­tem I described in Part 2):

Next on my list is the FN SCAR, which is the next-simplest on the list as it also uses the same rail sys­tem that the M4 does. After that I have to sep­a­rate the m203 and AR car­ry­ing han­dle so they can be added to the mod­u­lar attach­ments sys­tem. The SCAR uses a dif­fer­ent type of attach­able grenade launcher (the FN GL40 or Mk 13 Mod 0) but that’s sim­ple enough as well. Basi­cally each weapon will need a ‘white list’ of attach­ments, ie attach­ments that are sup­ported by the weapon, and when adding them from in-game, basi­cally do behind-the-scenes swap­ping of the dif­fer­ent grenade launch­ers, iron sights and so on that each weapon sup­ports. Luck­ily there’s not too many com­bi­na­tions so should be fairly straightforward.

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