Using Empties to Make a gun in Blender

Using physics to create a gun
Pros: Uses physics, can knock over objects
Cons: Collision may not be detected, gravity, fps is lowered.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• blender
• fps
• penguin
• blenderpenguin
• first
• person
• shooter
• empty
• empties
• bullet
• gravity
• pros
• cons

[CloudandZack1st]

good tutorial mate, but i notice on mine (which i already had and didnt follow your tutorial, no offense) when you aim up with the mouselook script, the bullet stays straight and doesnt rotate the angle of the barrel of the gun. any idea?

[BlenderPenguin]

@CloudandZack1st parent the empty to the gun

[CloudandZack1st]

@BlenderPenguin yeah i did that and it worked, but the bullet stays straight. i figured it out though, i has to press local button next to the emitter x velocity in the control panel. thanks though

[BlenderPenguin]

@CloudandZack1st alright. glad i could help :D

[ThePocoamisto]

the bullets dont shoot from the gun, seems they shoot from a curtain spawn point and dont shoot from anywhere else, whats up with that?

[BlenderPenguin]

@ThePocoamisto select the empty and than the gun and press "ctrl p" to parent it to the gun. that way the empty will go where ever the gun goes

[Adirahnna]

You are so freaking smart!!!! THANK YOU!

[MasterBecause]

@BlenderPenguin Thank you very much :) that helped

[BlenderPenguin]

@MasterBecause yes i've had the problem too. make sure the empty isn't too close to the gun that its contacts it when it is spawned. to fix the rotation tweak the "rotation dampening" in the game logic window.