How To Create A Marine With A Fuel Rod Gun.

Animate the marine to hold one. And please put all your questions in one topic. It's beginning to look like spam, unless that was your intention.

But Everytime i put a marine then i put his weapons as a fuel rod it comes out to a assualt rifle?

Because you didn't animate it. I'm not sure how to do it. Or, you can set the tag on the fuel rod to ar, but the marine will hold it like an assault rifle. If the biped doesn't have animations for the given weapon, he'll resort to his original weapon, aka the assault rifle.

No he dosent have a fuel rod gun just an assualt rifle

You dont need to animate it, just copy the fuel rod gun, name the copy "marine frg.weapon". Open it up, and go down until you see 3 letters that are "frg" or something. If it is "frg", then change it to "rl" to use the 3rd person rocket launcher animations. Which the marine animation tag can use, because marines are animated to use rocket launchers. Then in the AI tag or biped tag, copy them and make a new one and insert the "marine frg.weapon" into the slots where it belongs. I cant give you a full walkthrough on how to do it because Im not on my computer.
Edited by Advancebo on Mar 4, 2009 at 08:50 PM

Yeah i will take the full walkthrough

I don't think marines can hold rocket launchers. I had to change a rocket launcher's tag to ar in order for the marine to hold it. Even then, he used AR animations, and the reloading looked funny.

O yeah i need to ask you sometin how do you get a marines flashlight on?

they just end up holding no weapon. funny topic: anyone know how fuel rod guns blow up in the original campaign when they hit the ground? well on keyes, they drop off fuel rod grunts from a high height, and when they hit the ground, their guns explode but they still play the holding animation and try to shoot you. its hilarious

I meant for an AI. If an AI is given such a weapon, he'll resort to the weapon that the biped holds. Also, to get a marine's flashlight on, you use the command that DarkZealot put. It's a scripting command. You either put it into a script, or use it in devmode.

Try giving marines cyborg animations. They will probably stretch though.

i ment ai too. ai is where i found out that bit of information ^

No... In Sapien, I gave a marine a rocket launcher (without changing the tag). Instead, he spawned holding an assault rifle.

i gave my grunt an assault rifle. lo and behold he spawned with nothing. something is going on there........
marines have major actor variants. maybe THAT one had an assault rifle and your launcher guy's actor variant decided it wanted to be an upgrade? what you are suggesting doesnt make sense if you understand how settings in the biped animations tag work in relation to object lables.

First of all, I meant that if you gave an actor variant another weapon, it would resort back to the one the biped has. If you were referring to that, well, here's my proof:


I gave the captain a fuel rod gun. No major.

Here's in Sapien:



Try it yourself. See what happens. The same happened with fuel rod grunts. A long time ago, I wanted them to hold fuel rod guns, but I didn't extract it properly. So instead, I gave them the plasma cannon weapon. They spawned with plasma pistols. Later, when making flooderadication, and changing their default weapon to plasma rifle, when I added these so called "plasma pistol" grunts, they spawned with plasma rifles.

uh huh, except i did do this before and the grunt just spawned with no weapon. then i added a weapon in, and he still didnt use it. probably because the lables didnt match.
are you picking up what im putting down? in my case, the biped was referencing the same custom weapon, and the game didnt know what to do so it just placed the ai with no gun. in your case you are modifying original tags where the bipeds reference weapons that the animations have support for.

Use the Grunt MP tags animations to get Grunts to hold other weapons.

Why not just use the animations from the Masterchief when he holds it in Multiplayer?

Because the cyborg is taller than a marine, so the bones on the marine would need to stretch to fit the cyborg animations. So a stretched marine that might be grotesque is what you will see.

an easier way is to change the label in the weapon tag. Also since its "rifle", they would hold it like a rifle.

Also its frg

But i tried a captain holding a rocket laucher and hey was holding a plasma rifle? and also i tried the flashlight thing explain more eisier ples ples?
Edited by PVT Jenkins on Mar 5, 2009 at 05:30 PM

XP that is funny but i go to ck.biped and edit his weapon to a fuel rod gun then if it does not work the captain is screwed

For the flashlight, you must know how to create a script, and compile it. Read up on a few scripting tutorials.

Hey how do you change a map to a singleplayer?

How do you create a script for a marine with a flashlight on

Let's go back a step. First learn how to script before you go into complex scripting.

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?search=scripting+tutorials&B1=Search

Read all of these tutorials. Once done, you should know how to script. Then, just add that command into a script, compile, and you're done.
Edited by Gamma927 on Mar 7, 2009 at 12:15 PM

What is a GBXmodel.model

gbxmodel.model? Or do you mean *.gbxmodel?

* can be anything, by the way.

Ughh yeah what is it

I think it's the model of the object.

How do you make a gbxmodel for a marine

It's already made. Open up the marine_armored.biped file in guerilla, and the .gbxmodel is there.

the .gxbmodel is the actual model. Which has the shaders etc. The collision model is where its has collision. So if you ran into the marine; you wouldn't walk through it. And in the flood's case its also the part where it controls the arms for when they fall off after taken an amount of damage.