[SVC]

Hello all, i'm new here, but i've been visit this forum from a long time ago.

Either way, i'm written this thread because i'm start having some problems with attach_view native (pfnSetView). In order to explain detail, this is what I've done:

I make a weapon-ent (info_target), then I set this model to a weapon (lets say ak47) and change the player's view to this entity. Theoretically with this way we can make customizable weapons (I mean add glowing, change sking and/or body easily, etc)

The issue comes when i look up with that entity, basically when I do that the weapon that you'are watching will go look to the down-side. In other words, when player's view is normal and you look up, whatever weapon you have will look up too (the same to the down-side); but strangely, this doesn't happen when I changes player's view this custom weapon-ent (even it's like if up/down view is inverted)

I've try many ways of avoid that, but without success. So I came here and hope if anybody knows a way of doing that (or at least have experienced with this issue)

And yes, as you probable are thinking, all this is only for the purpose of making custom-weapons but I don't care if at the final this can be achieved or not. I only made this thread to share this issue and hope anybody can explain better this.

So this is all, I will waiting any response
Thanks for all, and please forgiveme for bad english.

[SVC]

Hello again!.

In order to explain much better this issue, I will show the code I'm actually using:

PHP Code:

#include    AMXMODX
#include    ENGINE

new bool:g_bInvertYaw;

public plugin_init()
{
    register_clcmd("__weapon__", "__give_weapon__");
    register_clcmd("invert_angle", "invert_angle");
}

public invert_angle() g_bInvertYaw = !g_bInvertYaw;

public __give_weapon__(const iPlayer)
{
    // It's only for testing purpose; code can be improved a lot, I know :)...
    
    new Float:fCoords[3];
    entity_get_vector(iPlayer, EV_VEC_origin, fCoords);
    
    fCoords[2] += 35.0;
    
    new iWeapon = create_entity("info_target");
    {
        entity_set_origin(iWeapon, fCoords);
        etity_set_model(iWeapon, "models/v_ak47.mdl");
        
        entity_set_string(iWeapon, EV_SZ_classname, "__custom_weapon__");
        entity_set_edict(iWeapon, EV_ENT_owner, iPlayer);
        entity_set_float(iWeapon, EV_FL_nextthink, 0.001);
        
        // I think doesn't necessary explain what it does..
        attach_view(iPlayer, iWeapon);
        
        register_think("__custom_weapon__", "__think_custom_weapon__");
    }
}

public __think_custom_weapon__(const iEnt)
{
    new iOwner = entity_get_edict(iEnt, EV_ENT_owner);
    
    /*
    Here I set custom-weapon's angles to the player's view-angles
    However even if I reverse they (more precisely the yaw-angle), the up/down view will be reverse "again"
    
    I can't explain better this, so when you test code you will see what i've saying
    */
    
    static Float:fViewAngles[3];
    entity_get_vector(iEnt, EV_VEC_v_angle, fViewAngles);
    
    // What I'm doing here is reverse the up/down angle (for testing) but doesn't not have effect
    if (g_bInvertYaw)
        fViewAngles[0] = -fViewAngles[0];
    
    entity_set_vector(iEnt, EV_VEC_angles, fViewAngles);
    entity_set_float(iEnt, EV_FL_nextthink, 0.001);
} 


Now, the reason what I'm reverse the yaw-angle on weapon's think is because before testing this way, I was creating this entity and in each frame I put his coords in front on player's view (by hooking pfnAddToFullPack), nothing new really; The thing is if I use the player's v_angles I need to reverse the yaw-angle so that the custom-weapon ent will aim correctly. So i was thinking doing that here will work too, but it seems that not.

I hope you will understand now better this.

Again sorry for my bad english, and sorry if this can be considered "bump"

[SVC]

Hello again, after a long time I have come back to ask you for help with this. I recently opened a thread on the official GitHub page but I haven't received any response yet.

I really hope that I can receive any help on this topic, regardless of whether it can be achieved in the end or not.

For those who have not yet understood, I summarize them:

1. I create a custom entity (I assign its respective model, its origin, etc...).
   
2. I link it to the player in question (pev->owner).
   
3. I assign the player's view to this new entity (pfnSetView/PF_setview_I).
   
4. On each entity think I take the v_angle of the player and assign them to the entity.
   
5. If I rotate my camera sideways (right/left), everything works fine, the "gun" is aimed fine.
   
6. If I point my camera up -> the player view will also point up (this is fine) BUT -> the entity model will point down (this is wrong).
   
7. If I pointed my camera down, the same thing happens as in the previous case but in reverse (player view is pointed down -> model points up).

In conclusion using the code I left above, an issue occurs when you aim down and/or up with the "gun" (it's just a simple model, and the same thing happens regardless of the model; I even tried the chick.mdl and the same thing happened).

Here are some pictures for better understanding:

Default camera position


Pointing up (the model "goes down")


Pointing down (the model "goes up")


I look forward to your responses. I think that if this can be solved it can be a great method to customize weapons, I hope so.

Excuse my bad english, I use the translator.