Properly implement the real Deagle + AWP viewmodels with the arms

[yassinsolim]

What & why

A fresh, from-scratch pass at both gun viewmodels using the real downloaded Sketchfab models, done properly like the knife — plus a keybind fix so you can actually reload.

The breakthrough

Both models ship a broken skinned export where the gun meshes are authored thousands of units from the hands. Crucially, I verified this with SkinnedMesh.applyBoneTransform (the only reliable way — computeBoundingBox and headless bounds both lie about skinned meshes, which is what misled the earlier attempts). Ground truth: the Deagle's arms skin perfectly to the origin and its Weapon bone tracks the hand.

Deagle — real arms holding a real gun ✅

Keep the real animated arms (detailed tactical gloves + watch, posed gripping) and rigidly bolt the extracted gun (MainBody/Slide/Magazine) to the Weapon bone, which the arm animation carries. Result: real hands holding a real Deagle, right-way-up, through equip/idle/fire/reload. No more upside-down gun-only.

AWP — the hard one

Its arms skin to a different place than the gun and are low-poly, so a hands-on-rifle view genuinely isn't achievable from this model. So I hide the arms and present the gun fit by its bind-space geometry — a clean, correctly-oriented rifle (scope/receiver/stock/barrel), fixing the "facing up / wrong side / blocky" look. One mesh that skins away is dropped.

Honest note: the AWP model's own arms are both broken (disconnected from the gun in the skinned render) and low-poly, so the AWP is a clean gun-only rifle while the Deagle carries the full arms+gun showcase. If you want arms on the AWP too, the cleanest path is grafting the Deagle's nice glove-arms onto the AWP gun — happy to do that as a follow-up.

Reload keybind fix ✅

R was bound to both reset-to-spawn and reload, so it teleported you instead of reloading. R now reloads in combat; reset-to-spawn is kept for non-combat surf practice only.

Implementation

WeaponViewmodels is rewritten around this: load the whole model, optional gun-attach to a bone, hide broken/aim-helper meshes, fit by skinned bounds (Deagle) or bind-geometry bounds (AWP), and play the authored equip/idle/fire/reload clips. Brighter viewmodel lighting carried over so the dark gun textures read against the map.

• AWP ships as the raw 6 MB GLB (files as they came).
• Deagle reuses the faithful 13 MB build — I re-verified its arms skin identically to the 221 MB raw.

Verification

• Tuned + confirmed both viewmodels through the real ViewmodelRenderer (same FOV/lights/camera-mount as in-game) — Deagle shows arms gripping the gun; AWP shows a clean rifle.
• npm run ci green: typecheck + 138 tests + build.
• In-game gameplay capture is blocked by pointer-lock under automation, so please give it a spin — switch to 2 (Deagle) / 3 (AWP) and hit R to reload.

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