Fleshed out the Unit Cre­ation / Cus­tomiza­tion sys­tem. It now prop­erly shows / hides meshes as well as swap­ping tex­tures and also added some view options — you can rotate the object and also zoom in / out as desired to get a bet­ter view of the mod­i­fi­ca­tions that you are making.

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So now that I have the basic con­tent orga­nized, I guess I do a bit of explain­ing as to how exactly the ‘mod­u­lar’ part of the sys­tem is designed.

Basi­cally instead of hav­ing a unique prop­er­ties file (OPR in GameCore-speak) for each weapon as a whole, the sys­tem is bro­ken up into lit­er­ally dozens of dif­fer­ent OPR / prop­er­ties files that are com­piled together on load (and even­tu­ally con­fig­ured at runtime).

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Just ported the attach­ments over to the FN-Scar and was pleas­antly sur­prised when things worked first time ;}

Gotta love that.

So basi­cally what I did was save out all of the var­i­ous ‘mark­ers’ that I added to the M4 and then merged them with the FN model — there was a bit of adjust­ment of the var­i­ous posi­tions due to the dif­fer­ence in dimen­sions of the SCAR itself, but oth­er­wise, it came across beautifully.

Took all of a minute or so to get all of the attach­ments bun­dled with the SCAR (includ­ing tweak­ing a cou­ple of posi­tions). Pretty slick.

Jolly good then ;}

Here’s a quick snap­shot of the lat­est update to the mod­u­lar weapon sys­tem — every­thing is now mod­u­lar, includ­ing the side ‘rail cov­ers’ for the M4 (which were pre­vi­ously a part of the ‘base’ model). Some things to note:

Flash­light: the light is actu­ally a part of the stand-alone flash­light opr file, and when com­bined into the main weapon, ‘just works’

Also shows off the new m320 Grenade launcher as well — have the m203 and a cou­ple of sights to do still and then base set of attach­ments is com­plete. Also been exper­i­ment­ing with adding a ‘Mas­terkey / m26’ type of shot­gun attach­ment to the inven­tory as well — we’ll see ;}

Ok, let’s go through what we have so far. I’ll warn you now that this gets into some pretty bor­ing low-level orga­ni­za­tional stuff, but might be use­ful for GameCore users (maybe…possibly…)

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