What is this?

The M4A1 is a Ravenfield custom weapon mod that utilizing phoenix framework to give it attachments and other extended weapon features/gameplay. This was the first attachment system weapon mod for tRavenfield that Brayan and I made. It roughly has 2592 unique weapon mod combinations, where you can swap out the mag, scope, stock, under-barrels, muzzles, rail-mount and skin providing a way to use the weapon in any situation

Technical Challenges we faced

(This is based all on my vague memory of what I remember since we going back ages)

Getting the animator to work with this was un-real. We had so many blend trees and different animations for each idle state the gun could be in (because you can swap out the scope, stock, mag, under-barrel). Couldnt thank Brayan enough for the amount of awesome effort he put into this, it definitely paid off.

We also had to come up with a way to interop between the lua mutator (phoenix framework itself) and what the gun had which was also a pain in the bum. We had to request being able to read data of game-objects which we eventually got but what we got was really annoying to use. From what I remember you added a MonoBehaviour component to the gun somewhere that had a whole bunch of array fields for each value type and you had to write out all the data like a key-value pair in their respective type array.

The result

See for yourself below! What we made was incredibly polished and arguably way better then the vanilla weapons the game comes with and a lot of content for the game that was coming out at the time.