Need Coder Thread

I live in the SF Bay area, and have an idea that I believe to be the coming thing in gameplay.

I lack the necessary coding skills to implement it.

I can model, texture, or perform other design tasks, and have the software to do so.

If anyone is interested, please respond.

You can't attract a coder without an idea, and besides, most people hunt the coder down themselves (like me with Gargoyle Arena)

Indeed, my coder for Dh3 was VERY hard to obtain. You have to go out and find coders to do the work for you. And a coder wants to know what he/she will be doing other than just 'coding'. You're offer is quite simply awful. Do you know how many times I hear of 'teh next uber-l33t awsome idea' but nothing of the kind has actually been mentioned and the other part of it is is that you've not already started to do any of it yourself, and it makes me wonder if it was ever thought of in the first place, and this isn't just a waste of time.
Naturally things might be otherwise, but that's not what I see form my end.

I knew it was gonna be crap when I read "Need Coder"

I'm sure your idea is real nice, but share it with the world! No one is going to join a mod they know nothing about.

maybe not, but we just might steal your idea!!! actually no we wont, cause w all have ideas of our own that we think are the b3st thing ev4r, so yeah, by sharing it, you might get some people interested.

I apologise for the lack of info.
I was being called away as I was trying to articulate my post.
However my idea is basic enough, yet still unused that I am loath to just broadcast it.

I will say it involves changing\adding to the standard FPS controls, and might be possible in the Half-Life engine, but I don't know.
I also think it reqires an engine supporting skeletal animation.

Again, I apologise for my inexperience, so cut back on the snot, please.

I will say it involves changingadding to the standard FPS controls, and might be possible in the Half-Life engine, but I don't know.
I also think it reqires an engine supporting skeletal animation.

I hope that isn't all there is to your mod...

Sorry for acting the way we did, but we get stuff like this almost every day

dont all engines support skeletal animations????

Nope. Q3A doesn't do skeletal, neither does the older incarnations of the Unreal engine. Vertex anims still live.

Somewhere.

ohh so you have to like solve the animations your self

I think they have to be solved by yourself anyway. Models doesn't automatically animate.

well, if you dont broad cast your idea in a clearly defined manner, dont hope that people will be all up in arms to help you. I'm not saying this to be an asshole, hope this helps

I didnt say they automatically animate, im saying that bones solve your animations for you

Do all animations have to be prewritten, or is it possible to map keyboard controls to various joints within the skeleton of the player model?

well, mapping keys to joints is certainly not possible in Half-Life. All the animations in HL are premade and told when to play.

You're thinking of Tresspasser. *ugh*