Best way for Cogitos gun clipping avoidance

[ksjfhor]

Hey folks,
as I saw the PR from failspy with the different Setup of Collision Layers I remembered the Problem of gun clipping.
What's that you are wondering?:

What should be the approch of fixing this ?
Should we go for

• lowering down the wieldable with an animation as the player gets close to a collisionobject ?
• rendering it in a other layer with a second camera ? (not sure about performance here)
• the best way, that I got no clue of ?

[ac-arcana]

I think the most common approach in Godot is a subviewport and camera. I would support this approach as it isn't too complicated to implement.

The lowering down or moving of a weapon when near an object isn't too hard with animations and a raycast. However it does mean more animations to create for anyone making custom wieldables.

[ksjfhor]

I am not sure about performance of that viewport camera, as I read about "just rendering the gun, dont worry" to "cuts performance in half". I hoped someone had some exp with that.

For the animations I thought just about two, one for rifle kinda and the other for upride stuff, like the pickaxe, as that both could cover at lot.

[Phazorknight]

As @ac-arcana said, the sub-viewport seems pretty popular but apparently comes with some drawbacks.
Chaff games recently posted this video which I'm inclined to give a try: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmodsHOxGQU

[ksjfhor]

Looks interesting !
Shaders are one of the things I kinda avoid, the repo states there is a bug in godot regarding the shadows of the wieldable. But I will look into that.

[FailSpy]

I'm working on an experiment that implements this over at #119, that would work without anyone needing to deal with converting StandardMaterials to ShaderMaterials.

[Phazorknight]

If it's cool with everyone, I'm gonna close this discussion as this is now fully implemented.