Playing animations on weapon worldmodel

[buu342]

Hello,

I'm working on a SWEP and I would like thirdperson to play a massive role. My question is if it would be possible to run functions such as ResetSequence on the worldmodel in order to animate it. I haven't had any luck with my tests, possibly because the worldmodel's animation is updated to the idle animation every frame?

If ResetSequence is not an option, then I would be perfectly happy to render a ClientSideModel and animate it with the help of ResetSequence and SetCycle. My only question is how does Garry's Mod attach the worldmodel to the player's hands (because self:GetPos() returns the player's crotch)? Bonemerging? Attachments? If so, I've never really worked with either so any code snippets to nudge me in the right direction would be amazing as I can't find much information regarding worldmodels anywhere. Viewmodels are so incredibly flexible in this game but Worldmodels seem to be a pain in the ass to do anything remotely interesting with.

Thank you!

[Rubat]

[buu342]

Turns out that was a tad easier than I was expecting (looking at your bonemerger code), but it seems I am still unable to set the sequence like this:

function SWEP:DrawWorldModel()
    local mdl = ClientsideModel( self.WorldModel, RENDERGROUP_OTHER )
    mdl:SetParent( self, 0 )
mdl:AddEffects( EF_BONEMERGE )
    mdl:ResetSequence( mdl:LookupSequence( "rotate" ) )
    mdl:SetCycle( 0.5 )
    mdl:DrawModel()
    mdl:Remove()
end

The Wiki says that it requires that ResetSequence be done in the tick after setting the model, but this doesn't work either:

if CLIENT then
    local mdl = ClientsideModel( SWEP.WorldModel, RENDERGROUP_OTHER )
    function SWEP:DrawWorldModel()
        mdl:SetParent( self, 0 )
        mdl:AddEffects( EF_BONEMERGE )
        mdl:ResetSequence( mdl:LookupSequence( "rotate" ) )
        mdl:SetCycle( 0.5 )
        mdl:DrawModel()
    end
end

Which is confusing because I swear I've managed to get ResetSequence behaving properly with ClientsideModel

[Gmod4phun]

Oh boy, you don't want to be constantly recreating and removing the ClientsideModel. You should create it in something like SWEP:Initialize and then just use DrawModel and other logic in SWEP:DrawWorldModel()

[buu342]

I've tried that but without any luck. I'm still unable to play sequences on the model.