Ooh, neat, a feature was just checked into Godot to allow for first person weapons that won't stick through walls and can have a different FOV: github.com/godotengine/... Wonder if I should make use of that or just keep my super scaled down first person character (Hey, it works!): - ThreadSky

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jitspoe.bsky.social • 26 days ago

Ooh, neat, a feature was just checked into Godot to allow for first person weapons that won't stick through walls and can have a different FOV: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/93142

Wonder if I should make use of that or just keep my super scaled down first person character (Hey, it works!):

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adeeltariq.com•25 days ago

I wonder what some other cool use cases for this can be.

hsvfan-jan.bsky.social•24 days ago

UI that is affected by the lighting would be neat for some games

terrehbyte.com•26 days ago

Ooh, thanks for the heads up. I've been using a custom shader material to do this, but had some quirky behavior with shadows. I'll have to recompile and try it out.

joelobrist.com•25 days ago

📌

berserkersdomain.bsky.social•25 days ago

lol nice solution 😁
I went with the other approach: render weapons on another visual layer, in another viewport, with smaller FOV. also works, but is more complicated..

jitspoe.bsky.social•25 days ago

I was too concerned about performance to even try that.

berserkersdomain.bsky.social•25 days ago

hmm, is that really expensive though? that 2nd viewport only renders the weapons geometry, which is next to nothing (even though they're illuminated by the light sources).
or am I missing something? (serious question, I'm new to this)

jitspoe.bsky.social•25 days ago

Each time you render a viewport, it's going to have to fill all those pixels, even if the geometry isn't much. Fillrate is typically the bottleneck when it comes to rendering performance.

berserkersdomain.bsky.social•25 days ago

damn, you're right. never thought about it this way, thanks for this. 👍
I mean, in my case, the bottleneck is still CPU due to physics, but I'll do some experiments anyway.

jitspoe.bsky.social•25 days ago

It might not be an issue depending on your project, but also keep in mind people on PC can have all sorts of weird configurations, like a beefy CPU, cheap GPU, and a 4K monitor, so the fill rate really has an impact.

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