Camera gun

What i'm trying to do is have a camera that you look through, and get to control a machine gun on the other side. If anyone has played games like timesplitters 2, or deus ex invisible war, you'll know what i'm talking about.

So far I have a point_viewcontrol which allows me to see the gun, but i dont know how to get the gun to fire on the other side. Its not necessarily a gun that is attached to a security camera, but a security camera with a gun placed in front of it, that would otherwise be controlled normally by the player. The gun doesn't do anything. The gun and camera are activated by a button on a security console.

Any help would be very welcome. thanks

A func_tank will make the gun. You can either make a brush that looks
like a gun, and tie that to the func_tank, or make an invisible
func_tank brush and use it to control a prop model. There's an example
of the latter in one of the sdk_d2_prison_*.vmf example maps included
in the SDK.

Func_tanks have a "control volume" field that takes the name of a
trigger_brush. That's the place you need to stand to control the
func_tank, and you can put that anywhere.

You can also parent the point_viewcontrol to the func_tank, so that it rotates the POV as you steer the gun.

Be warned that there are apprently problems using func_tanks in
anything other than single-player maps, so it might not work if you're
making this for HL2DM or CSS.

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VMEX, Pakrat & Entspy

pretty much, im trying to make a machine gun similar to that of the airboat. this possible without special code that i know nothing about?

Parent the gun model/brush to the func_tank (to give the illusion that
its coming from the gun), like Rof said: Look at the sdk_d2_proson*.vmf
to see how they did it.

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Posting And You

sorry sorry, i will mention exactly waht i am trying to do.

I have a spaceship looking thing thats made out of random props. The spaceship moves along a track and works fine. What does not work fine is trying to put a gun on it. I have the player sit inside a prisoner pod to pilot the pod, but that doesn't allow you to use the gun. so what i was trying to do was give the illusion that you were still sitting inside the spaceship by using a point_viewcontroller, and placing the player in a black box outside of the level with a func_tank inside the box.

the best i can do, is have the viewcontrol stay still (not allow you to look around with the mouse), attached to the ship, and the gun doesn't want to move. it stays still as well, but it fires where you point it.

That sounds like you didnt parent the gun to the func_tank, dont parent it to the spaceship itself.

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Posting And You

hmm. ok well The gun works when its in your own peripheral vision, and not in the point_viewcontrol's peripheral vision. So i personally deem this impossible to do by itself.