Hi, I making a custom muzzleflash for my Airboat gun. In 1st view everything is fine (the muzzle is pined to ViewModel’s muzzle Attachment) but if I toggle camera or thirdperson the muzzleflash is pined to camera’s (or 3rd person camera view) attachment.
Please Help me
Look up fire events… Also show us the code. In the meantime here’s the fire-event code I use, and how I do muzzle flashes for thirdperson and firstperson:
CLIENT
SWEP.CSMuzzleFlashes = true
//
// Fixes Double MuzzleFlash and other issues = Josh 'Acecool' Moser
//
function SWEP:FireAnimationEvent( _pos, _ang, _event, _options )
-- Disables animation based muzzle _event
if ( _event == 20 ) then return true end
-- Disable thirdperson muzzle flash
if ( _event == 5001 ) then return true end
end
SHARED
local _p = self.Owner;
local _effect = EffectData( );
_effect:SetOrigin( _p:GetShootPos( ) );
_effect:SetEntity( self );
_effect:SetStart( _p:GetShootPos( ) );
_effect:SetNormal( _p:GetAimVector( ) );
// You'd need to replace 1 with the attachment you're using.
_effect:SetAttachment( 1 );
// Timer otherwise the effect will show up in the wrong place
timer.Simple( 0, function( )
if ( !self.Owner ) then return end
// Prevents the client from seeing more than 1 / spam because of how sweps work
if ( !IsFirstTimePredicted( ) ) then return; end
// Apply the effect
util.Effect( "gunsmoke", _effect );
end );
The issue may be with the thirdperson fire-event enabled or you’re not setting up the effect manually.
thanks i will test it
Show us your code… Show us how you’re creating the effect.
ok. There’s my code:
function SWEP:FireAnimationEvent(pos, ang, event, options)
if ( event == 21 or event == 22 ) then
local muzzle = EffectData();
muzzle:SetOrigin( pos )
muzzle:SetEntity( self.Owner:GetViewModel() )
muzzle:SetAngles( ang )
muzzle:SetAttachment( 1 )
util.Effect( "AirboatMuzzleFlash", muzzle );
return true
end
end
You still didn’t disable the thirdperson event, plus the muzzle flash usually gets called in ShootEffects. Also, you didn’t enable / disable CS muzzle flashes.
function SWEP:FireAnimationEvent(pos, ang, event, options)
if ( event == 21 or event == 22 or event == 5001 ) then
local muzzle = EffectData();
muzzle:SetOrigin( pos )
muzzle:SetEntity( self.Owner:GetViewModel() )
muzzle:SetAngles( ang )
muzzle:SetAttachment( 1 )
util.Effect( "AirboatMuzzleFlash", muzzle );
return true
end
end
Right?
function SWEP:FireAnimationEvent(pos, ang, event, options)
if ( event == 21 or event == 22 ) then
local muzzle = EffectData();
muzzle:SetOrigin( pos )
muzzle:SetEntity( self.Owner:GetViewModel() )
muzzle:SetAngles( ang )
muzzle:SetAttachment( 1 )
util.Effect( "AirboatMuzzleFlash", muzzle );
end
if ( event == 5003 ) then
local tpmuzzle = EffectData();
tpmuzzle:SetOrigin( pos )
tpmuzzle:SetEntity( self )
tpmuzzle:SetAngles( ang )
tpmuzzle:SetAttachment( 1 )
util.Effect( "AirboatMuzzleFlash", tpmuzzle );
return true
end
end
Still not working 
Put your muzzle flash into ShootEffects ( which should be called by PrimaryAttack, or ShootBullet… ); The Fire Event thing is to prevent a muzzle-flash from being created on certain events. You’re creating one anyway…
Also, your thirdperson muzzle-flash should NOT be using self.Owner:GetViewModel( ). It should use self / self.Owner:GetActiveWeapon( ) – same thing, use self…
The reason your flash is so far off in thirdperson is because it’s looking for the view-model, which IS around that area of the screen in thirdperson ( overlay the screenshots, regardless of angle, it is the same spot… then go into firstperson to see if the muzzle is in that same spot ).
OK I will test