Introducing "Weapon Control": Turn any 3d object into a FPS weapon (Unity 3d) Video Lecture | How to make Video Games: Game Editor Tutorial - Game Development

hey folks tornado twins here and every
three to four months we bring out a new
version of FPS control and I am very
happy to sneak peek for you the weapon
control editor which is one of the major
updates in this late March release for
the Game Developers Conference in San
Francisco so here you have it there are
a couple of weapons here in view and you
might think wow why are they a little
bit all over the place the reason is you
can drag in any type of weapon handling
3d model that you have and weapon
control will turn it into a real weapon
so let's take a look here and I'm gonna
tweak the weapon at runtime while the
game is playing you can do both you can
do it while the game is not running or
while the game is running which is
pretty darn awesome so if you ever heard
the term of we're building an airplane
in midair then we've just actually make
that happen for real so I'm sitting here
with my mind blown and face melted and I
can't wait to show you all this so let
me go into the game and switch through
my gun here that is a beretta and then
I'm going to click on the editor to sort
of freeze the view there and it allows
me to change anything I want so here's
for example the XY & z placement of the
gun so if I change the Z you can see
them guns start moving forward backward
the X moves it left and right you know
however you want it and then the why of
course moves it up and down so I think
this is about right here is pretty good
then I can change the angles also of
course and then you know this case that
doesn't really help me much but you know
if you have a gun model that is a little
bit weird angled you can fix that at
runtime next there is a light burst that
I can add and I've already edited for
you so the the name of the life is blast
and I've attached it at the position
which is a bone in front of this gun
that that's called shoot from which we
use for triggering particles and that
sort of stuff at this point I don't have
any particles set up on the gun but I
could add three particle effects when I
fired a gun as well which is pretty
awesome so you can have
mo coming out of the side you can have a
blast muzzle muzzle flash at the front
that kind of thing so let's test the
let's test the light real quick so if
you see when I get closer to the wall
you can see that it has a quick light
burst all right one more thing or I
could show you a couple more things here
is that I can render a fire path so
that's very useful when I have like a
laser weapon or you know an angular
grenade path I could render all that out
sound effects are just easy
drag-and-drop and they will be assigned
then it gets even more interesting I
could change the amount of damage this
gun does compared to other guns so it
pistols not that great but I mean it
does some damage then I can disperse
that radius so if you have a shotgun you
would have a wide ripp blast radius but
with the pistol it's it's it's pretty
small then I can change the number of
Ray casts that are used for inflicting
damage so with a shotgun
you can you know have it belt out over
you know 12 ray cast or whatever but
most cases you leave this at one another
cool features that can change the damage
over distance so let me axe these out
here if I say okay I want to have a
distance of 40 meters so 40 units in
unity and then halfway it's still 100%
damage and then somewhere close to the
the end the fall-off starts to happen at
a 70% for example you could even move
that to the other side and have a little
dip whatever you want to do you can I
can change the type of ammo if it's a
clip if it's a if it recharges over time
if it's unlimited I can drag in my mash
3d mesh here and it will automatically
detect all the animations in it so I can
assign the animations for the gun to use
and then the gun handling has been
completely rebuilt from scratch so if I
look up and down quickly it doesn't do
any weird stuff anymore
also you can see that the gun is handled
by really smooth physics which sort of
rotate the gun as I as I move it around
also crouching has been introduced if I
hit control I go down and another thing
that has been introduced is scoping so I
just right-click and I can set the
scoping position of the gun also in the
editor
and let me show you one more super cool
thing is I can add a firing pattern for
example for an Uzi or what have you so
instead of only firing once it fires
over a pattern so I can put in one
second here and in one second it will
shoot three times so one two and three
which allows you to quickly prototype
what this would look like let me show
you when I fired a gun it shoots it
fires it three times with one trigger so
you can pretty much make up any weapon
you want it also supports melee weapons
so if I go to my sword here I have that
and you know I'm not going to show you
too much of that yet because I want to
keep some of the surprise but melee
weapons ranged weapons angular weapons
projectile weapons everything is
supported inside of this system so
that's a quick sneak peek I hope you
like it if you want to know more go to
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talk to you later bye bye