Dynamic PlayerPawn properties?

lumbo7332 · Post by **lumbo7332** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 6:24 pm

I'm looking to be able to dynamically adjust the player's view height based on whether they are aiming down the sights of a rifle or not. Is this possible?

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 11:57 pm

You can change the viewheight property on the playerpawn, but I haven't checked how exactly it would interact with crouching.

EDIT: you may need to multiply the height by player.crouchfactor or something similar.

lumbo7332 · Post by **lumbo7332** » Sat Mar 16, 2019 10:13 am

Matt wrote:You can change the viewheight property on the playerpawn, but I haven't checked how exactly it would interact with crouching.

EDIT: you may need to multiply the height by player.crouchfactor or something similar.

Can you do it dynamically based of in-game input?

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sat Mar 16, 2019 11:50 am

Try putting in your playerpawn's Tick() somewhere and give it a try:

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if(player.cmd.buttons&BT_ZOOM)player.viewheight=viewheight*0.8*player.crouchfactor;
else player.viewheight=viewheight*player.crouchfactor;

A correction to my previous post: best to only manipulate "player.viewheight" (a property of the player thinker) not "viewheight" (a property of the player pawn) since that's the way it's done in the crouching code.

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