Unreal Tournament Invisible Weapons

I think there was a bool, bHidden or something like that.

The weapon in someone else's hand is a different object (subclass of weaponattachment, it's held in the Weapon's ThirdPersonActor slot) than the pickup and also different from what you see from first person view.

I haven't played around with bHidden for attached objects, but I have done things like shrink it to be effectively invisible. In the Ninjas! mod, some of the thrown weapons do this to try and make it look like the weapon is leaving the player's hand. bHidden sounds cleaner to me if you really want it not to be drawn ever, though.

Another thing you could do is override the behavior of the weapon so that the ThirdPersonActor is never spawned in the first place (which would only work if you are doing a custom weapon).

........... could you just not give the weapon a third-person model at all? People wouldn't see anything then.

Not having the ThirdPersonActor is the "real" solution IMO. On the other hand, it might be a little bit more work. At least, unless you override some of the weapon/inventory methods I think you wind up getting some Accessed None's, so it winds up either being a little bit gross either way (cluttering the log with exceptions versus duplicating weapons/methods just to guard against accessing a null ThirdPersonActor).

So my opinion, if you want to make existing weapons disappear in third person, then shrinking the actor is probably the tactical option. If it's a custom weapon, then override so you don't have the third person actor at all.

I'd do something like this (just to shrink the weapon)

class No3PWeapon extends Weapon;

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. Whatever else
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/*
Override to make attachment invisible.
*/
function AttachToPawn(Pawn p) {
Super.AttachToPawn(p);
if (ThirdPersonActor != None)
ThirdPersonActor.SetDrawScale3D(vect(0,0,0));
}

Big oops - I just skimmed right by that UT before 2003 part. So...I dunno about UT.

Next time you need help figuring out how to do something in a different version of UT than you actually need to, just let me know....