Help stopping viewmodel camera clipping

[BaconHair16773 (BaconHair)]

Not sure what category this needs to go in. Let me know if this is the wrong category, and I’ll definitely change it.

So right now I’m working on an fps framework for my game, and to stop the gun’s barrel clipping into walls and such, I just scaled the viewmodel down and positioned it really close to the camera. However, when I tweak the cframes, the weapon’s stock seems to clip into the camera (??), as seen in the video linked below. If anybody could help with this issue, that would be great!

Thanks to anybody helping!

[nowodev (Nowoshire)]

I believe there’s some voodoo magic involving ViewportFrames you can do to prevent guns from clipping into walls, but it probably sacrifices lighting and render quality.

[BaconHair16773 (BaconHair)]

Yeah, this was the alternative, but I kinda need the lighting so I can’t use them. However, I know games unite uses this method for their weapons, and they don’t seem to clip. If I can’t find a solution, I’ll probably just end up using viewports, though.

[neviquatro (nevi)]

Prevent weapon clipping (How does Tunneler do it?)

Obviously can’t confirm this, but it’s possible the portal gun is actually very small, but extremely close to the camera so it appears to be normal size? This was a trick people used before viewport frames were a thing to get the same effect. There’s still the possibility for clipping when extremely close and you can’t scale the mesh too small or the near clipping plane Z won’t render your model (as shown in video), but with the right value you get the effect in the OP It’s worth noting you’d …

or just use IK

[BaconHair16773 (BaconHair)]

That’s not the issue. If you see the stock, you can see it clipping back into the camera (culling) (or that’s what it seems like). This is particularly visible when I aim. I pretty much just did what EgoMoose did here but instead just used :ScaleTo().