Crossbow Addon

[Al Simmons 0]

Here you can download my Crossbow Addon

it features:

-visiual anims

-flying Bolt

-nice Hunting feeling

Some Pics

Please give me some feedback.

[VictorTroska 0]

Cheers....

Very nice addon,especially for night or stealth missions......

....downloading..

[DBR_ONIX 0]

Something original!

Will try later on, good work

- Ben

[loony 0]

buahaha

good work! really impressive

[Sepe 1]

Reminds me of the assassin minimission I made for my own pleasure where you had to use the old crossbow (from the old medieval mod which stopped, the crossbow was their only public release AFAIK) and FDF:s axe.

Now, this + teh rabbit addon released a while ago... Mm.

[NeMeSiS 11]

Hehe, thats nice.

[-SWAT- 1]

Looks good... I will test it when there´s time...

[triumph 0]

Now you need to make a deer addon to go with.

Seriously though, that would be cool to put 50 or so deer on one of the islands that you could stalk and hunt.

[Sepe 1]

MULE HUNTING!

Naah, just stick to CSJ's rabbit. Propably easier to shoot with these than CWMOD's muskets anyway.

[william1 0]

if you are tired of M4... jajajajajaja

[Hornet85 0]

Nice!

Can i see the arows coming?

[Julian 0]

I tried it , its cool, but I think that the heal animation should be taken out, and just have a regular reload. and add more bolts. Create like a quiver of bolts in a pack on the guy's back.

feedback for you.

[Hornet85 0]

how abut a version that have a mag with arrows?

auto reload

[Al Simmons 0]

Quote[/b] ]Julian Posted on June 24 2006,23:02I tried it , its cool, but I think that the heal animation should be taken out, and just have a regular reload. and add more bolts. Create like a quiver of bolts in a pack on the guy's back.

Yeah i thought about that too. Maybe ill get a better custom anim for a latter version.

Quote[/b] ]Hornet85 Posted on June 24 2006,23:11how abut a version that have a mag with arrows?

auto reload

Nope Mate i think Semiauto Xbow is not an option

[Hornet85 0]

hehe rgr that but its fun using

PS: cool smiley

[Baskis 0]

huntin' time!

[#FoX.Flyer 0]

new mirror on ofp.info:

ftp://www.gamepark.cz:8021/ofpd/unofaddons2/Crossbow_Addon.rar

[Metal Heart 0]

Cool. Would be nice if the reload wasn't automatic though so you could keep looking through the scope after a shot to see where it lands. And maybe add some variants with different sights.

[FatNinjaKid 0]

WHY, OMG, WHY?!

[POPKA 0]

In my opinion the Reload would look better if the player could control it and if it used the attach mortar anim instead of the medic one.

[Metal Heart 0]

I just noticed when fooling around with the addon a little that if you use the mortar reload action (reloadAction="ManActReloadMortar"; in config.cpp) you can reload instantly when prone by tapping 'R'. This bug is also in BIS original mortar.

But the animation it self fits a bow kind of weapon better and you could use it with a script like it is now.

[loony 0]

ekhm... when I shoot, crossbow make a smoke ;] its strange :P

[Al Simmons 0]

ok will fix that anims and cloudlets bug in next version, and maybe add a Harpoon weapon

[Peacepunk 0]

Great

I'd say NO to autoreload, sure.

A while ago, I was pokin' around with the same idea (I crashed my HDD since then), and came up with Mortar Reload as well (actualy, Model + ModelSpecial is from M16 Mortar CPP). And I tried a lot: it may not be perfect, but the rest is rather unrealistic.

Agree that Reload action should be voluntary, not automatic: player must be in control & freedom, that's OFP.

At the time, I enjoyed tweaking initspeed & so on, so that you see the arrow doing a realistic curve in the air. Max Range was 250m.

Among issues faced:

-AI reluctant to use - my special units "Smooth Operators"  where Xbow + silenced Glocks & would always use the Glock.

-No way you can get your arrow back, or at least see it either in the opponent or wherever it landed: Looked eliminatory to me.

Cheers

Peacepunk

[Peacepunk 0]

Ok, for some constructive comments now:

(some easy to fix, some others not)

Easy to fix

- Member of Team would complain "Ammo Low" at start and "Out of Ammo" each time they fire: Change CPP with 10 mags of 1 ammo instead of one mag of 10 ammo.

-Picture in "Gear" to big & out of shape with usual OFP style, Picture doesn't repesent in-game weapon: Change to correct sized in-game (or in-bulldozer) pic

-AutoReload is really killing, should be fixed with comment "Ammo Low". As of now, no animWeapon visible as it is in m16Mortar.

-Reload Issue, no weapon in hand/Ready to fire after reload: Known bug in OFP, advertise in Readme

-Suppress the cloudlets: Use m16Mortar as base CPP

-Such units should have NVG and pistols: add to CPP

-Build a group of units in CPP

-Visor Support is untextured, just blackish colour: Steal something better from OFP

-Range is too short, AI would engage at 60m and miss around 7 times on 8: Improve "hit" values and Accuracy.

Hard to fix / Not A Clue:

-Weapon lies strangely on the ground, bow is halfway straight up and halfway in the ground: Need to change weapon position in O2 ?

-If you take the Xbow from a downed soldier (from an ammo crate?) Xbow behaves like a m21, no anim, no reload action, only reload time is respected: Use m16Mortar CPP

-Team Members appears red (because of Low Ammo ?)

Link to my original CPP for Xbow, displayed on OFPEC as an howto to weapon throwing unusual objects:

DoFP_Xbow CPP on OFPEC

A last word: I'd be honored to participate in Xbow V2, should you be interested.

Cheers

Peacepunk