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Bolt Rifle

In this example the bolt rifle is replaced with a banana gun. For this case, it is recommended to use a Premade Template rather than a Sample USF file.

Hiding geometry

Bolt Rifle is messier than models in previous examples, because it has customization and a lot of moving parts. To make it easier to work with this rifle, you can hide the rigid body (click the blob and press H) and all LODs (type lod in the hierarchy and click the Eye icon on all LODs).

Replacing geometry

For simplicity, let's only replace the base_01 object with a banana.

  1. Hide everything except for the base_01 object. Press Ctrl+I to inverse selection and then press H. You can make a mesh, UV and texture yourself or import the banana from the example_03 folder.
  2. In Edit Mode select base_01, select all vertices by pressing A and delete them with X > Vertices.
  3. In Object Mode, in the Hierarchy view, while holding Ctrl select banana and base_01 (make sure nothing is selected before that operation) and then press Ctrl+J to put the banana geometry into the base_01 geometry.
  4. Open the Materials tab and remove unused material that is left from bolter.
  5. Select all LODs, duplicate base_01 4 times with Shift+D and right-clicking.
  6. Rename the LODs accordingly and link them to base_01 by drag-and-dropping them while holding Shift.
  7. Export, convert mesh and texture, drop the ptc, tpl, and td folders into your local folder, and check the results.

Animations

Note that tpl_desc contains semi-mandatory custom property with description of animations events:

{
  "IDLE": {},
  "IDLE_3": {},
  "RELOAD_FULL": {
    "1": {
      "comment": "&clip_start_drop",
      "frame": 17
    },
    "2": {
      "comment": "&clip_end_follow",
      "frame": 20
    },
    "3": {
      "comment": "&clip_in_hand",
      "frame": 29
    },
    "4": {
      "comment": "&ReloadClipOut",
      "frame": 15
    },
    "5": {
      "comment": "&ReloadClipIn",
      "frame": 43
    },
    "6": {
      "comment": "&ReloadLock",
      "frame": 60
    }
  },
  "SHOOT_1": {},
  "SHOOT_2": {},
  "SHOOT_3": {},
  "SHOOT_AUX": {}
}

Each key is an event ID; it is a number, like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Events are numeric based. Each event contains a comment and a frame when that event happens.

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