## HMG Overdrive This update focuses on weapon visuals, TaCZ compatibility, firing presentation, audio, and creative inventory organization. ### Improved Weapon Lighting - Reworked held-weapon lighting so guns match Minecraft's world lighting more naturally. - TaCZ and Bedrock-imported weapons no longer become excessively dark under normal lighting conditions. - Legacy weapons now use cleaner world lighting instead of their old custom lighting approximation. - Emissive parts, illuminated optics, reticles, transparent materials, and generated inventory icons remain supported. ### Improved TaCZ Firing Animation TaCZ-imported weapons now reproduce their original firing presentation more closely. - TaCZ weapons use their own authored firing animation instead of also receiving HMG's legacy whole-gun kick. - Added TaCZ's original first-person firing sway, lift, and yaw behavior. - Improved firing animation blending and rapid-fire transitions. - Improved recoil return between repeated shots. - TaCZ ADS constraints now help keep weapon movement around its intended position. - Bolt, slide, charging-handle, and other internal weapon animations remain independent of whole-model movement. - Reduced excessive receiver movement and clipping while firing in ADS. These changes affect the weapon model itself only. Gameplay recoil, mouse movement, spread, aiming, and weapon balance are unchanged. ### Creative Inventory Reorganized Weapon tabs have been simplified and reorganized into broader categories: - Assault Rifles - Submachine Guns - Machine Guns - Shotguns - Sniper Rifles - Bolt-Action Rifles - Pistols - Launchers - Other / Special Weapons - Vehicle Weapons - Sample Weapons Carbines, Battle Rifles, and Marksman Rifles no longer have separate tabs. - Carbines and Battle Rifles have been folded into Assault Rifles. - Marksman rifles are now placed under either Assault Rifles or Sniper Rifles depending on their role. - Bolt-Action Rifles remain separate. - Sample and demonstration weapons have been moved out of the normal weapon categories into their own Sample Weapons tab. ### Vehicle Weapons Added a dedicated Vehicle Weapons category for vehicle-specific ordnance and items that are not usable as normal handheld weapons. This includes things such as: - bombs - missiles - vehicle rockets - weapon pods - vehicle-only weapon items Functional placed weapons and handheld launchers remain in their normal categories. ### TaCZ Audio Improvements - Restored a large number of missing original TaCZ and ClassicRCCRP weapon sounds. - Improved reload, draw, inspect, bolt, charging, and other mechanical animation audio. - Improved sound fallback behavior for imported TaCZ animations with missing individual sound markers. - A small number of sound references remain unavailable because the original source packs do not contain the referenced files. ### Weapon Sound Updates - Updated the AK-47 firing sound. - Updated the AK-74 firing sound.

# HMG Overdrive — Gun Icon Rework & Fire Mode Update ## Reworked Gun Inventory Icons - HMG's existing model-based gun inventory icons have been completely reworked for consistency and performance. - Instead of repeatedly relying on the live gun renderer for inventory presentation, HMG now generates a clean model-derived icon once and reuses it across GUI screens. - The reworked icons are used consistently across: - Inventory - Hotbar - Creative menu - GUIs - NEI - Generated icons are cached to disk and reused on future launches. - Guns with authored inventory sprites can still use them normally through existing icon overrides. - Equipped guns, dropped guns, placed guns, skins, attachments, and other live-world rendering remain unchanged. ## Much Better Gun Icon Framing - Gun icons are now framed around the weapon's actual visible silhouette instead of depending on the raw model origin or authored scale. - Pistols, rifles, launchers, and unusually offset pack models should now appear at much more consistent sizes. - Weapons are automatically centered and scaled to use most of the available icon space while still keeping transparent padding around the model. - Long barrels, stocks, optics, suppressors, and other protruding parts are much less likely to clip outside the icon. - If a weapon still approaches the capture boundary, HMG automatically retries with a wider view. - Weapons that still cannot be captured safely fall back to their authored sprite instead of saving a visibly broken or clipped icon. - Higher-resolution captures and improved downsampling produce cleaner edges and transparency. - Older cached icons automatically regenerate using the new framing system. ## More Reliable Icon Caching - Completed gun icons now persist more reliably between game sessions. - Unchanged guns can load their cached icon directly without needing another capture. - Failed or interrupted cache writes are handled safely instead of corrupting the saved icon. - If disk saving fails, a successfully generated icon remains usable for the rest of the current session. - Resource reloads and game shutdowns now handle pending icon saves more cleanly. - Changes to gun models, textures, animation data, transforms, or other appearance data automatically invalidate the old cached icon and generate an updated one. ## Cleaner Pending and Failure Behavior - While a model-derived icon is still being prepared, HMG uses the gun's normal authored sprite instead of falling back to an expensive live render. - Failed icon generation also falls back cleanly to the authored icon rather than repeatedly retrying expensive rendering work. - Inventory, hotbar, creative, GUI, and NEI all share the same finalized generated icon once it is ready. ## Better Default Fire Selector - Newly created guns that support automatic fire now default to their first available automatic fire mode. - Semi-auto-only weapons continue to use their normal first configured fire mode. - Existing gun stacks keep whatever fire mode was already saved on them.

# HMG Overdrive — 2026-09-20 ## New Features - Added a new optional technology progression system for HMG weapons. - Guns can now be assigned a historical year or technology tier. - Server owners can enable progression independently for HMG. - Half-step tiers are supported for more gradual progression. - Unclassified custom weapons remain unrestricted for compatibility. - Added server-controlled progression commands. - Operators can change the active HMG technology level without restarting the server. - Progression is saved per world and synchronized to connected players. - Optional Creative and operator bypasses can be configured. - Added technology information to weapon tooltips. - Classified weapons now display their assigned year/tier when inspected. - Classified all bundled HMG firearms and weapons for progression. - This includes legacy HMG content, GVC weapons, WWII weapons, vehicle weapons, migrated TaCZ weapons, Blockbench weapons, and ClassicRCCRP content. - Later variants of the same weapon family use their appropriate historical year rather than inheriting the earliest model's date. ## Progression Restrictions - Weapons above the currently unlocked technology level can now be prevented from: - Firing - Being crafted - Being created through the Gun Smithing Table - Existing restricted weapons are not deleted from inventories. - Melee weapons, attachments, kits, recipes, templates, and other non-firearm definitions remain outside the technology system where appropriate. ## Fixes - Improved reliability of HMG's bundled content extraction on Windows. - HMG no longer unnecessarily rewrites bundled files that are already identical. - Reduced the chance of startup failures caused by temporary Windows file locks. - Changed bundled files are now replaced more safely instead of being overwritten while still in use. - Fixed several HMG file streams that could remain open longer than intended. - This reduces the chance of bundled pack files becoming locked during startup or content generation. - Improved startup error reporting for bundled HMG content. - Pack extraction failures are now reported separately instead of appearing as misleading recipe-loading errors. - Errors now identify the affected bundled pack and file, making startup issues significantly easier to diagnose. ## Backend - Added persistent per-world HMG progression state and client synchronization. - Added server-authoritative progression checks for firing, crafting, trigger handling, and Gun Smithing Table transactions. - Added safer bundled-pack cache materialization with unchanged-file reuse, temporary-file replacement, and Windows-specific retry handling. - Improved cleanup of magazine, gun definition, settings, sound, resource, and script file streams.

# HMG Overdrive — Version Update ## New Weapons Added new migrated weapon variants using TaCZ and ClassicRCCRP presentation assets while retaining HMG gameplay behavior. ### TaCZ - M870 - M1014 - Kar98k - M320 - HK416D - Mk 14 EBR ### ClassicRCCRP - AK-74 - AK-74M - AKS-74U - HK416 - M110 - MG36 ClassicRCCRP content is packaged separately with its original CC BY 4.0 attribution. --- ## Reload & Weapon Audio Overhaul - Added full mechanical reload audio support for migrated TaCZ-style weapons. - Magazine, bolt, slide, pump, shell, and other mechanical sounds can now play directly from authored animation markers. - Reload sounds now follow the actual animation timing instead of relying on generic approximations. - HMG firing sounds remain authoritative and are not replaced by imported animation markers. - Added fallback reload audio support for weapons whose source animations do not contain sound markers. ### Per-Shell Reloading Migrated per-shell weapons now properly follow HMG's real ammunition lifecycle. - Added staged reload presentation with: - reload intro - repeated shell/round insertion - reload finish/cancel animation - Each shell or round is only added when HMG actually commits it. - Interrupting a reload retains ammunition that was already inserted. - Future rounds are never granted simply because an animation played. - Existing firing interruption behavior remains supported. This now applies to weapons including: - M870 - M1014 - Kar98k Kar98k now uses five real single-round magazine slots rather than presenting a cosmetic full-clip reload. --- ## Animation Improvements - Fixed imported equip/draw animations that could incorrectly loop forever. - Imported draw animations now correctly return to the weapon's idle pose after completing. - Fixed a crash when equipping the ClassicRCCRP AKS-74U. - Zero-duration held idle poses are now preserved correctly instead of being treated as impossible looping animations. - Timed locomotion and action animations remain unchanged. --- ## Crafting Recipes All migrated weapons now inherit the Gun Smithing Table recipe of their legacy HMG gameplay counterpart. This includes: - TaCZ weapons - ClassicRCCRP weapons - Blockbench AKM Imported versions now follow the same progression and material requirements as their original HMG equivalents instead of existing as recipe-less variants. --- ## Inventory Rendering Adjusted several imported weapon icons for better inventory presentation. - Increased TaCZ RPG-7 inventory size by 1.5×. - Reduced the oversized TaCZ M870 inventory model. - Reduced the oversized TaCZ M1014 inventory model. These changes only affect inventory rendering. Weapon size while: - equipped - dropped - aiming - in first person - in third person is unchanged. --- ## Naming & Creative Tabs Cleaned up imported weapon names and content tabs. ### Creative Tabs - `HMG TaCZ Guns` - `HMG ClassicRCCRP Guns` - `HMG Blockbench Guns` ### Weapon Names Imported weapons now use consistent source-prefixed names such as: - TaCZ AK-47 - TaCZ Glock 17 - TaCZ M870 - TaCZ M1014 - TaCZ Kar98k - TaCZ M320 - TaCZ HK416D - TaCZ Mk 14 EBR - ClassicRCCRP AK-74 - ClassicRCCRP AK-74M - ClassicRCCRP AKS-74U - ClassicRCCRP HK416 - ClassicRCCRP M110 - ClassicRCCRP MG36 - Blockbench AKM Removed player-facing underscores and raw internal naming from migrated content. --- ## Content Pack Cleanup ### HMG Blockbench Added a dedicated `HMGBlockbench` pack. - Moved the Blockbench AKM out of the normal GVCguns pack. - Moved its Blockbench model and related content with it. - Added the required pack-local dependencies so the weapon remains self-contained. - Legacy GVCguns assets used by existing weapons remain untouched. ### TaCZOfficial Consolidated the older Bedrock test weapons into the production TaCZ content structure. - AK-47 now belongs exclusively to `TaCZOfficial`. - Glock 17 now belongs exclusively to `TaCZOfficial`. - Removed the old `TaCZCompatibility` development pack. - Removed duplicate gun definitions and redundant development assets. There is no longer a separate test gun pack being distributed solely for the early Bedrock imports. --- ## Backend / Modpack Developer Changes - Added reusable deferred recipe-copy support for migrated weapons. - Migrated recipes now resolve against their actual HMG gameplay counterpart after recipe packs finish loading. - Added staged imported reload presentation states: - `INTRO` - `INSERT` - `END` - Added reusable support for animation-timed mechanical sound markers. - Added clip-start sound fallback support for marker-less imported animations. - Imported fire/shoot animation markers are filtered so HMG remains authoritative for firing audio and weapon behavior. - Improved handling of zero-duration imported animation poses. - Cleaned duplicate imported registrations, localization entries, obsolete pack references, and development-only packaging. - Updated TaCZOfficial, ClassicRCCRP, and HMG Blockbench migration metadata and attribution. ## Licensing / Migration Notes The following packs remain excluded from direct weapon migration: - Warzone — packed asset format - Continental — no directly compatible HMG gameplay equivalents currently identified Some weapons also remain excluded where their caliber, model, or specialized operating lifecycle does not cleanly map onto an existing HMG counterpart.

## Handmade Guns Overdrive — Changelog ### TaCZ / Bedrock Weapon Improvements - Fixed migrated rifles occasionally breaking their hand pose after the initial equip/draw animation. - Added smooth transitions between idle, walking, running, and other movement animations. - Improved sprint-to-fire behavior. - Weapons now return toward a proper firing position before shooting. - Added a short delay after sprinting to prevent firing directly from the lowered running pose. - Quick trigger presses during this transition are retained instead of being ignored. - Improved overall animation consistency across migrated TaCZ/Bedrock weapons. ### RPG-7 Improvements - Fixed the RPG-7 rocket remaining visible after being fired. - The rocket now correctly disappears when the launcher is empty and reappears during reload. - Fixed the RPG-7 appearing excessively large in inventory views. ### G36 / Asset Fixes - Fixed missing G36/G36K scope and ADS textures. - Fixed a Glock icon filename issue discovered during the migration cleanup. - Improved handling of supporting weapon assets such as custom sight and scope textures. ### Animation Improvements - Improved draw-to-idle transitions. - Smoothed transitions between movement states. - Improved transitions from sprinting back into firing-ready animations. - Reduced abrupt snapping between imported weapon animations. ## Developer / Backend Changes - Improved persistent BASE animation handling for imported Bedrock weapons. - Added dedicated locomotion crossfading. - Prevented movement transitions from interfering with ACTION animations. - Added generic support for ammunition-dependent model parts. - Improved detection of TaCZ projectile/ammunition bones. - Improved interaction between sprinting, firing, ADS, reloads, and imported animation states. - Expanded migrated asset dependency handling so weapon-specific scope and render textures are included correctly. ## Known / Deferred - The previously observed M1911 off-hand animation issue has not received a dedicated fix. - Per-shell reload weapon migration remains deferred. - TaCZ reload and mechanical audio integration remains planned for a future update.

### Beta Changelog **Player-Facing Changes** * Added native support for TaCZ-style Bedrock weapon models. * TaCZ-style guns can now use their original models, textures, and animations directly in HMG. * Added support for TaCZ walking and sprinting animations. * Added directional walking and ADS walking animations. * Added sprint start, sprint loop, airborne sprint hold, and sprint end transitions. * Improved animation layering so movement and weapon actions blend more naturally. * Added support for shared TaCZ rifle/pistol movement animations without replacing each gun’s own firing, reload, or inspect animations. * Added support for HMG skins on both native `.bbmodel` guns and imported Bedrock guns. * Fixed texture/resource conflicts that could cause older HMG weapons to render incorrectly. * Restored normal rendering for legacy HMG weapons affected by the first Bedrock implementation. * Improved Bedrock model UVs, transforms, and general first-person rendering. * Official TaCZ AK-47 and Glock 17 are now included as initial compatibility examples. * Warzone-style `taczpack.dat` packs are intentionally unsupported. **Known Beta Issues** * Legacy HMG reload animations are currently broken. * Bedrock gun icons can be offset in the creative menu and inventory. * Third-person hand placement still needs refinement. * Some imported TaCZ guns currently show optional attachment geometry by default, such as the AK sight rail or Glock extended magazine. * Some weapons may have overlapping geometry or texture fighting because of those extra visible parts. * TaCZ-specific gameplay systems such as underbarrels, attachment logic, Lua behavior, custom ammunition systems, and ballistics are not supported. **Developer / Compatibility Changes** * Added native Bedrock geometry loading through HMG’s existing imported-model runtime. * Added support for nested bones, pivots, rotations, mirror, inflate, negative dimensions, texture dimensions, and box/per-face UVs. * Added `BASE → MOVEMENT → ACTION → ADDITIVE` animation layering. * Added shared animation fallback support while preserving local weapon actions. * Isolated imported model/texture resources to prevent cross-pack collisions. * Added format-based rejection for packed/obfuscated `taczpack.dat` content.

# HandmadeGuns Overdrive 4.0.0.3 ## Bundled Official Content - Official HMG Overdrive content is now included directly inside the main mod JAR. - Guns, magazines, attachments, textures, sounds, models, animations, and maintained configuration files no longer require a separate Additional Files download. - Installing HMG Overdrive now only requires placing the mod JAR in the `mods` folder. - `handmadeguns_Packs` remains fully supported for addons, custom content, overrides, and live reloading. - External packs load after bundled content and can override compatible built-in definitions. ## Creative Ammo Improvements - Guns taken from the creative inventory now begin with a full loaded magazine. - Creative players no longer need to perform an initial reload before firing. - Creative reloads no longer consume, return, or spawn magazine items. - Firing still decreases loaded ammo normally, preserving standard reload behavior and animations. - Survival ammo and magazine behavior remains unchanged.

## HMG-Overdrive — Beta Changelog This beta is a major expansion of HMG-Overdrive focused on modern content-pack authoring, native Blockbench support, server usability, and several gameplay improvements. Existing OBJ/MQO content remains supported alongside the new systems. ### New Features - **Native Blockbench model and animation support** - HMG guns can now load `.bbmodel` projects directly without exporting the weapon to OBJ/MQO. - Supports Blockbench bones, cubes, pivots, textures, UVs, hierarchy, and embedded animations. - Supports position, rotation and scale animation channels with step, linear, Catmull-Rom and Bezier interpolation. - Existing Blockbench/TaCZ-style animations can provide idle, fire, reload, inspect and other named clips. - Added support for TaCZ-style positioning nodes such as `idle_view`, `iron_view`, `thirdperson_hand`, and first-person hand locators. - Imported guns use their authored first-person and ADS positioning instead of requiring legacy HMG positioning values. - **New gun animation system** - Added named animation clips with BASE, ACTION and ADDITIVE layers. - Supports animation priorities, interruption, looping, reverse playback, hold behavior and smooth crossfades. - Animation playback is isolated per weapon/player/render context, including attachment previews and nested guns. - Added an optional **Inspect** action for weapons with inspect animations. - Fire, reload and cock actions can automatically drive imported animations while gameplay remains server-authoritative. - **Fully animated Blockbench reloads** - Reloading now explicitly starts the appropriate imported `reload_tactical` or `reload_empty` animation. - Reload animations are authorized by the server but presented immediately on the owning client. - Imported reloads retain control of the weapon pose for the complete animation instead of being replaced by HMG's legacy reload pose. - Reload animations now play to their natural completion instead of being cut short by delayed reload-state synchronization. - Legacy guns continue using the original reload system. - **Clean content-pack asset structure** - HMG packs can now use organized `models/`, `textures/models/`, `textures/items/`, `textures/misc/`, `animations/`, `sounds/`, and `attachments/` directories. - Added concise references such as `Model,akm.mqo`, `Texture,akm.png`, `BlockbenchModel,cod4_ak.bbmodel`, and `Animations,akm.json`. - Existing legacy HMG layouts remain supported for third-party packs. - Repository HMG packs have been migrated to the new structure. - **Built-in dedicated-server vecmath dependency** - HMG now ships its required vecmath 1.5.2 runtime itself. - Dedicated servers should no longer require users to manually install a separate vecmath jar. - Existing vecmath installations are detected and left untouched. - Compatibility with GVC, WW2 and Linker APIs using standard `javax.vecmath` types is preserved. - **Global infinite ammo** - Added `/hmg infiniteammo` for server administrators. - Can be toggled or explicitly set with `/hmg infiniteammo <true|false>`. - Applies globally to players and persists through the world's gamerules. - Reloading supplies ammunition without consuming reserves while enabled, while normal chamber, bolt and weapon restrictions remain intact. ### Gameplay Changes - **Improved headshot detection** - HMG now classifies individual projectile impacts against the victim's actual bounds and head/eye region instead of relying on the previous generic ray/fallback behavior. - Existing headshot damage and sound behavior is retained. - Combatives poses can provide authoritative eye-height information when available. - **Reworked heavy-weapon jumping** - Heavy equipment now prevents the jump before vanilla movement occurs rather than correcting the player afterward. - Removed downward correction teleports and post-jump vertical velocity clamps. - Flight and riding bypass the weight restriction. - Client/server mobility state is synchronized for more consistent jump prediction. - **Improved explosion cover** - Blast protection now considers physical collision instead of primarily visual block properties. - Vegetation, webs and other non-solid/replaceable blocks no longer count as meaningful explosion cover. - Glass, fences, doors, slabs, stone and other physically substantial blocks can provide cover. - **Improved explosion damage falloff** - Configured HMG explosions now use horizontal distance for damage falloff with a separate vertical limit. - Full damage remains within the configured radius, followed by linear falloff out to twice that radius. - Terrain exposure continues to modify final damage. ### Compatibility & Content Authoring Blockbench support is completely opt-in. Existing OBJ/MQO guns, legacy animation behavior, attachments and existing third-party HMG pack layouts remain supported. Imported models can also use embedded textures and animations, allowing a substantially more self-contained gun-authoring workflow. The included Blockbench AKM example demonstrates a directly imported animated weapon, including tactical and empty reload variants, without requiring OBJ export or manual `AddParts` definitions. ### Notable Fixes & Changes - Fixed Blockbench textures being initialized too early during Forge startup. - Corrected imported Blockbench model orientation, scale, pivots and animation coordinate conversion. - Improved first- and third-person positioning for imported weapons. - Improved animated hand placement using authored Blockbench/TaCZ hand locators. - Fixed animation ownership surviving normal synchronized `ItemStack` replacement instead of restarting the equipped animation. - Blockbench guns no longer inherit legacy HMG sprint positioning. - Improved HMG/Flan's/Combatives aiming-pose compatibility. - Added stricter pack ownership and path isolation so HMG only imports assets belonging to the intended HMG content pack. **Beta note:** Native Blockbench support is intentionally being released as a beta while broader weapon/content-pack combinations are tested. Existing legacy weapon formats remain available as the compatibility path.

# HandmadeGuns Overdrive — Beta Changelog ## Released Changes ### Features * Added **Creative Mode infinite ammo**. * Added a global admin infinite-ammo toggle: * `/hmg infiniteammo` * `/hmg infiniteammo <true|false>` ### Fixes * Reworked **headshot detection** to validate actual projectile impact locations against the target. * Improved entity hit ordering and fixed several incorrect or missed headshots. * Fixed **Flan's armor arms not following HMG's temporary third-person quick-ADS firing pose**. * Fixed heavy weapons causing broken or desynced jumping behavior. * Heavy weapons now reject invalid jumps before vanilla movement instead of correcting the player afterward. * Removed jump velocity clamps and downward correction teleports. * Improved client/server jump-state synchronization. * Fixed explosion cover checks so **grass, flowers, ferns, crops, saplings, vines, cobwebs, and other non-protective blocks** do not weaken explosions. * Improved explosion cover detection for actual physical blocks such as walls, glass, fences, doors, and slabs. * Fixed explosion damage becoming excessively weak from vertical separation. * Explosion damage now uses horizontal distance for falloff while keeping a vertical blast-radius limit. * Terrain and solid cover still reduce explosion damage normally. ## Work in Progress ### Named Gun Animations * Added the foundation for **optional named gun animations**. * Supports custom fire, reload, inspect, bolt, magazine, additive, looping, reversing, hold, and transition animations. * Added animation priorities, interruption, crossfading, and presentation-only animation events. * Added content-pack JSON loading and fallback behavior for legacy guns. * Added an optional inspect input and animation API/event support. * Existing HMG meshes, pivots, visibility logic, VBO/display-list caching, and legacy animations remain supported. * Currently needs broader in-game testing across: * first and third person * NPCs * GUI/preview rendering * nested and mounted guns * attachments * reload/inspect/switch behavior * multiplayer and dedicated servers