Questions tagged [first-person-shooter]
A 3D or pseudo-3D action game genre categorized most famously by its first-person perspective and a bias towards ranged projectile combat.
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Bullet Impact Effect
I'm creating a small fps and I don't know how to create a bullet impact effect I have a muzzle flare and I have recasting set up but I don't know how to make a bullet impact effect, I've already tried ...
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Whats the general method developers to implement FPS multiple weapon handling animations?
I'm trying to create a first person shooter and I'm lost on what's a good, efficient methodology to implement the whole weapon handling animation system.
Now, I know that I could have a unique ...
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How to import character package in Unity
I recently made a game in Unity 3D and I tried to import the FPS Controller package as the tutorial I was following said, but when I clicked Assets/Import Package the only thing I saw was a button ...
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How can you tell if you are a large player on a large map or a small player on a small map?
If everything is scaled by a constant factor, can you tell that the world is smaller or larger?
I think you could look down at the ground and see that it's "closer".
But how do you know what ...
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Bullet spread changes depending on the camera direction
I'm working on an FPS game. I want to make a little bit of difference in shooting direction, only on the horizontal axis.
To do this, I wrote this code:
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First Person Shooter Character in Unity - Meshes Clipping When Close to Body?
I am working on a game character using Unity. I'd like it to be playable in 3rd Person and 1st Person depending on what the user chooses (switchable in game whenever ideally).
I've worked on and read ...
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Which fixed framerate should i choose for physics thread?
I am writing first-person shooter game with fast motion. I have a fixed high-frequency physics loop thread, which is separated from variable-frequency rendering thread. I need to choose the physics ...
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Unity C#: Accurate MachineGun Firerate at lower FPS
I have long accepted that my firerate will be more or less irregular and inaccurate. Now that I'm adding sound things are getting really ugly. My methods for getting the firerate are primitive and I ...
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How to calculate angle for shooting bullet in 3D?
What I want to know is if I can calculate an angle similar to how I'm doing in 2D and update the x,y,z position of a bullet based on that angle in a similar manner I'm doing the update function below. ...
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unity 3d mouselook script help, weird issue
I'm coming back to Unity after a year or two of busy college and I'm having to relearn everything I've forgotten. One thing I cant seem to get right is this basic mouselook script I wrote. Here is the ...
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The state that is synced when a window is broken in a FPS game
In order to better understand how state syncing works in games, I wanted to pose a specific example. Say you are in a FPS game with multiple players and someone breaks a window in some building. ...
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How to parent object to empty when looked at
I am making a fps in unity. I have an empty parented to the camera for the gun, and I want to be able to pick up and drop guns found in the scene. Does anyone have a simple c # script that would allow ...
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Applied force is backward instead of forward when shooting an object
I have this FPS I'm making and I wanted to apply force to objects I shoot at however when I shoot on them, instead of going away from the camera they come towards it.
I don't get it. I could fix the ...
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How to change fps character's movement speed and mouse sensitivity in UE4?
As the title says, I'm using the default fps template from UE4 (blueprint template) and the movement speed is very high, also I want to adjust the mouse sensitivity, but I don't know where are those ...
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How does lag compensation really work?
I am curious about the details of lag compensation in games. I have read a lot of articles about it, for example:
1: Source Engine Multiplayer Networking
2: Fast-Paced Multiplayer - Gabriel Gambetta
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How to use my own 3d model in Unity FPS Controller Std Asset?
Well I've been trying almost all day trying to make the standard FPS controller in Unity work with my own 3d model, but no success...
I tried:
Importing the FPS standard asset and make my model ...
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Same dimension feel no matter what FOV
Does anyone know a formula, way, ... to make a FPS player feel like an object has the same size on different FOVs (given that it's at the same distance of the player, of course)? I know that this can'...
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What is the little dot/icon at the center of the screen in an FPS game called?
So I am developing a game and trying to find one of those to use, but I don't know what to search for. If you don't know what I am taking about, look at these examples:
What are these called?
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HUD Text not displaying/drawing
I am trying to use blueprints to display my character's speed using a HUD, but for some reason the text is not displaying. What am I doing wrong? I am using the First Person template.
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First-person shooter -style controls [duplicate]
This is not in regard to a video game, but to a 3D model viewer someone else created and I am modifying.
I would like to implement first-person -style mouse and keyboard controls in the viewer, so ...
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Will this method of hashing player positions be effective in defeating FPS wall-hacks?
For example using a class like below to Hold the player positions and only show the players to each other when their Distance is less than something, So the calculations are also used by the client's ...
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Visibility Polygons for FPS AI to move tactically
Does anyone know how to implement visibility polygons in Unity's AI system? I want to write FPS AI that clears an area by checking all the places that aren't immediately visible, cutting the pie the ...
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How can I reference the frontmost part of a mesh in my Unity code? (and help making FPS projectiles seem more real)
I have started making a PC game using Unity. It's just a test project, where I'm making as basic as possible FPS shooter.
I'm using the FPS Controller prefab, and I have also a rifle model attached ...
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How can I make bullets come from a character's eyes, but look like they come from the gun?
How can I make bullets in a first person shooter look like they come from the gun, but actually come from the eyes of the character? The problem is that since the camera (the character's eyes) are in ...
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Jump Script Component For Character Controller
I'm trying to implement a jump method into my FPSInput script. I know how to make this work for a Rigidbody, but how can I accomplish this with my Character Controller? Does CharacterController have a ...
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how to convert FoV into zoom 2x, 3x, 4x…?
so I have the value of the FoV in degrees,
now I need to convert it to a zoom value of 2x, or 3x, for scopes and binoculars.
I placed some objects equally distanced between each other,
but when I ...
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How do Aimbots get detected?
I was wondering on the programming methods which are used to detect when a player is using an Aimbot/AutoAim cheat.
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first person character controller error
I have opened new scene, deleted camera and imported first person character controller from Standard assets.
I placed plane on scene and put first person character controller on plane.
I got this ...
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Firing a simple sphere from below the camera at crosshair in the centre of the screen, with or without raycast
I have a game that spawns "enemies" within a sphere around the camera, the player moves the camera to target and simply presses the screen to fire. For now my "ammo" is simply a sphere and for visual ...
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How to configurate my camera Fps in OGRE 3D
How to move the camera similar to an FPS game??
I have a camera and two nodes.
MyNode (this node have my objects)
NodePerson
My node is child to NodePerson and my camera too.
My function is:
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Handle weapon rotation with camera in FPS game 3D DirectX 11 C++
By now i have
-A working camera that moves around the world (z-axis is where it looks, y-axis is the one that aims above it and x-axis is the one to the right)
-A gun that follows the camera (so i ...
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FPS - How to handle accuracy with red dot sight on guns
I have a gun which you can aim down the red dot sight. If you are moving while aimed down sight, there is some bobbing that comes into play. The arms are bobbing, not the camera itself.
Currently ...
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Not see through models without adjusting clipping panels
I'm making a FPS game in Unity3d with a lot of weapons, but when I'm aiming I can see through the weapon. I know I can adjust the near clipping panel, but when I do that, my terrain starts flickering. ...
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Why aren't game bullets implemented as if they were real bullets?
Let's say I'm working on a 3D first-person shooter and the boss is a stickler for realism, and orders me to implement the bullets as tiny projectiles that travel, say, 1000 meters per second. What ...
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FPS controller initializing at bizarre location
I have got the hang of basic construction, terrain modification, applying materials, placing trees, etc. I have created a water plane, positioned my terrain above it, and am able to sink lakes and ...
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Multiplayer architecture of shooter games
I've a doubt about synchronization on multiplayer games. In the case of the architecture of a game is like this:
Client tells to the server is shooting at this position, then the server simulates the ...
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LibGDX limit the PerspectiveCamera for a FPS view
I'm using LibGDX and I'm trying to implement a FPS camera into my game. I'm not using the FirstPersonCameraController for multiple reasons:
I don't want to touch to roll (only yaw and pitch), with ...
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Standard unit value for 3d game character height?
Basically I'm building a first person shooter game using DirectX9. And now, I'm working on the modeling side. But before I start modeling, I have to make sure that I create all the models with ...
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Reseting animation
I'm writing little fps game in Unity 5.3.5. So, I've got my gun object and two animations, idle and shot. I've got transition from idle to shot with trigger condition and "Has Exit Time" unchecked.
In ...
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Fixing wave-like movements when rotating an object using mouse input in Unity
I have encountered a rather odd issue with my program.
The setup:
In my scene, I have a GameObject which I have set as my player/character for this game. The player/character has a child GameObject, ...
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Frame Skips in MonoGame
I'm developing a 2D game using MonoGame. I've got a square on the screen I can move around. The problem is that about once a second, the square jumps a bit. Using a frame counter I found here I've ...
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FPS game UI theory [closed]
Are there any researches concerning FPS game interfaces? I'm interested in analyses of designing & positioning UI-elements. The only thing I can find are blogs and articles about immersion in ...
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LibGDX - FPS drops
I've been trying to record some gameplay footage of the game I'm currently working on, using the Android SDK and ADB to do it.
Whilst the game runs at constant 60 fps in my medium-end phone, as soon ...
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Networked projectiles in an authoritative server
I'm working on a multiplayer game, and I've implemented a simple enough player prediction (according to this great article) - which works well enough.
What isn't discussed there, and my question here;...
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FPS Crosshair, Should it be drawn on center of the screen or to the forward of bullet spawn point?
so my question is where to draw crosshair? I have some things in my mind like:
1): Draw it on the center of camera(which will stays on the center of screen always), but as my gun is little lower to ...
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Why should a FPS game use a “floating arms” approach over full body one?
I've seen many first person shooter games both single and multiplayer using a set of floating arms and a gun instead of using the whole body model.
What is the advantage of floating arms? You are ...
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Collision causing First Person Controller to go haywire
I have created a first person controller as an enemy in my game (Zombie). My character is an archer that uses arrows as projectiles that are shot with the following code:
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Sending a players mouse movement to the server in an FPS
So I have a server-client model FPS set up. It uses udp to send data between the two with the server having a constant tick rate of 100 ticks per second (It updates movement 100 times a second) on the ...
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Should the bullet trajectory calculated by server or by client? [duplicate]
In a FPS game like Battlefield or Arma, when playing online, should the bullet trajectory be calculated by the server or by the client?
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How to fix my camera collision, C# XNA
I am having some weird issues with my camera. I am trying to make it so it is a first person camera, that when the user presses the W or Up key, it moves towards where the camera is looking. My issue ...
