[EFFx]

Third Person View

Release: 03/02/2022
Last Update: 03/28/2022

- Description
- With this plugin you can use a new format of third view camera. Being able to see actually where you are aiming at. Also it supports as well grenades throw to the same point where you are aiming from the camera view's perspective.

Keep in mind that it has a check to see if the user/entity you are shooting at is visible from the actual player view perspective (not from the camera). There's two points happening here, one view from the camera and another from the player view himself. Both visions are "aiming" at the same spot, but if there's something between the player actual perspective and the end point of the camera, it'll stop there (avoiding non-sense shooting throw walls, when the end point is not actually visible from the player default perspective).

- Gameplay View


- Cvars
tpcamera_distance = How distant the camera will be from the player
tpcamera_right = How far right the camera will be from the player
tpcamera_up = The height of the camera
tpcamera_fraction = The fraction when the camera hits wall

- Credits
https://forums.alliedmods.net/showpo...84&postcount=9
https://forums.alliedmods.net/showpo...5&postcount=51

- Change log

Spoiler

03/02/2022 - First release

03/05/2022 - v1.1

- Minor changes in the code.
- Fixes regarding the angles of the player compared to the camera.
- Allowed the penetration again (only one penetration per rifle plus deagle) since it was stopping in the first hit point.

03/27/2022 - v1.2

- Fixed headshot damages.
- Fixed crash when attacking with the knife.
- Fixed issues with team kills.

- Changed bullet hit effects.
- Changed some values regarding damage.

03/28/2022 - v1.3
- Fixed crash when disconnecting or dying while using the camera.
- Fixed both points from player's view perspective and the camera's perspective. So no blind shots are taken.
- Fixed the bot support.
- Fixed an issue that randomly happens with the Kill feed being displayed twice.

- Now the plugin uses the Ham_TakeDamage to take the damage from the user instead of
pev_takedamage, so third-party plugins doesn't gets affected by the plugin.
- Now the bullets takes damage from breakable entities too.
- Now both pause/unpause commands are supported by the plugin.
- Now the trigger_camera monitor from cs_assault is also supported too.

- Changed the camera model.

Made with not much time, any feedback would be appreciated.
Another OBSERVATION: it recreates the default firing sounds of the game since I had to block client-sided sparks and bullet holes. So if you use a custom plugin that changes the firing sounds, I've got bad news for you.

[DJEarthQuake]

Interesting. Use clamps on the Cvars if too touchy IMHO RE:OBS. Have not looked at the code yet.

[EFFx]

Well, not sure why would someone change the values THAT much. If so, i'm gonna let them notice possible issues and turn back to good values anyways.
I'm not getting them bugs anymore, but since it is not confirmed that the bugs doesn't happen when the cvars are changed too much, I'm gonna let the warning there.

[OciXCrom]

Unless you're using them with emit_sound() or any other method of playing sounds except client_cmd(), you should precache "g_szDeploySounds" with precache_generic() instead of precache_sound().

The sounds are played client-side using client_cmd() so you don't need to waste precious resource space on them. precache_generic() does not add up to the 512 limit.

[EFFx]

Done it. Also, fixed a weird-looking bug with the player angle not being the same as the camera.
Added too the feature of penetration of the bullets, it was stopping in the first hit point regardless it's thickness. Wrote a code that allows is again (not the same ofc, but works).

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After:

[JocAnis]

Didnt try it but good job

[SoulWeaver16]

The plugin makes you invincible to bullets, not explosions
As you can see in the photo, I was in front of the bot and the bullets bounced back ahaha
On the other hand, it's great for a way to use the third person from the character's head

[EFFx]

If you are using with bots, you wouldn't get hurt since the camera only gets created for normal players. Normal damage is blocked since the point of the player is different of the camera view. Also, makes no sense to make invincible to explosions.

Also what you mean by the bouncing bullets?

[SoulWeaver16]

Originally Posted by EFFx If you are using with bots, you wouldn't get hurt since the camera only gets created for normal players. Normal damage is blocked since the point of the player is different of the camera view. Also, makes no sense to make invincible to explosions. Also what you mean by the bouncing bullets?

Yes, when shooting the player sparks come out like it will shoot metal, I didn't know about the protection given to the player

[MayroN]

So far this is the best version of the camera that I have seen until today)

Yes, there are nuances, I don’t argue - but everything can be fixed, right?)

Decals and all that can be done in the same way as in the first person

For example so

        message_begin(MSG_BROADCAST, SVC_TEMPENTITY)
        write_byte(TE_GUNSHOTDECAL)
        engfunc(EngFunc_WriteCoord, origin[0])
        engfunc(EngFunc_WriteCoord, origin[1])
        engfunc(EngFunc_WriteCoord, origin[2])
        write_short(id)
        write_byte(41)
        message_end()

	message_begin(MSG_BROADCAST, SVC_TEMPENTITY)
	write_byte(TE_WORLDDECAL)
	engfunc(EngFunc_WriteCoord, origin[0])
	engfunc(EngFunc_WriteCoord, origin[1])
	engfunc(EngFunc_WriteCoord, origin[2])
	write_byte(41)
	message_end()

Then leave blood on the enemy.

But, there is a nuance - when shooting from your friend, even when shooting at your friends is disabled, you can safely kill him ...

This is the main issue with the plugin.