vivid steeple
i want to make a fps with multiple guns each with their own hand animations. i'm struggling on how i can implement it so i made this small chart (read left to right) with a potential solution. any feedback or pointers of how to do this efficiently are greatly appreciated
celest portal
That's definitely one way to do it and the logic seems good to me
Another way would be to apply what's called the "strategy pattern"
In the strategy pattern, your character doesn't have to know or care about anything specific to the gun they are using. The character just calls a "shoot" function and the gun itself takes care of handling any specific logic related to it (like firing one bullet or 3 spread bullets, or even calling specific animations to happen)
Up to you really
You could also just have a property in your gun class that hold the value for what animation the character should play
Lots of different ways you could approach this