Deus Ex Alpha

Ran into even more bother involving Multiskins earlier when I was testing out a new texture for the sawed-off shotgun.

Normally there should be two textures for each weapon, one for the pickup view and the other for the player view, with a Multiskin slot attributed to each view texture. This usually works out alright, but with the sawed-off it seems the two view textures are occupying the same slot, despite half the other entries being vacant. Basically, it means that I can either have my gun look like this in pickup view:



And this in the player's view:




Or the alternative, which is use the item's playerview texture and have the gun look like this:





It doesn't seem possible to seperate the two accordingly. Anyone know where I'm going wrong?

It's probably a skin assignment malfunction of the mesh itself - if I were you, I'd export the original weapon, reimport it and skin it with the appropriate import code for the skin assignments. (found in AllWeapons.uc)

If you do decide to do this, PM me if you need help.

You want some code fiddling with. Namely RenderCanvas(**)

Allan wrote:You want some code fiddling with. Namely RenderCanvas(**)

And that'd be in WeaponSawedOffShotgun?

It's probably a skin assignment malfunction of the mesh itself - if I were you, I'd export the original weapon, reimport it and skin it with the appropriate import code for the skin assignments. (found in AllWeapons.uc)

If you do decide to do this, PM me if you need help.

Might give that a go, how long would it take? Also, I'm not certain but I think I've got the same problem with the Combat Knife and Plasma Rifle.

Confirmed, same problem with the Combat Knife and Plasma Rifle, probably others too.

Come to think of it, the pistol is the only weapon I've been able to successfully re-texture, along with the DTS.

Or, if you're very lazy, like me, you can make it change the multiskins when it's picked up / frobbed, and throwing the weapon changes them back.

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Then again, if it's for MP I'm not sure how that will show up to other players.

Might give that a go, how long would it take? Also, I'm not certain but I think I've got the same problem with the Combat Knife and Plasma Rifle.

Well, you're going through the import process for the gun all over again, but it's basically copypasta and modifying some lines of code. It may take a while.

portable mp3 player wrote:

Might give that a go, how long would it take? Also, I'm not certain but I think I've got the same problem with the Combat Knife and Plasma Rifle.

Well, you're going through the import process for the gun all over again, but it's basically copypasta and modifying some lines of code. It may take a while.

Fair enough. Problem now is I might have to do it with 3 different weapons, won't that bump up the download size considerably?

Snakey wrote:

portable mp3 player wrote:

Might give that a go, how long would it take? Also, I'm not certain but I think I've got the same problem with the Combat Knife and Plasma Rifle.

Well, you're going through the import process for the gun all over again, but it's basically copypasta and modifying some lines of code. It may take a while.

Fair enough. Problem now is I might have to do it with 3 different weapons, won't that bump up the download size considerably?

It will bump up the download size, just don't know by how much. Deus Ex has ridiculously optimized models.

Seems reasonable. I'll give it a go if these other two chap's suggestions don't work.

Allan wrote:RenderCanvas(**)

This is the only way to "solve" it properly, without a hacky method.