Submitted by lowerthanred
Tux's new model is taller than the old one; this means that bullet offset that may have fit in the past doesn't fit now and when tux shoots a gun, bullets appear to exit from his middle instead of from the gun. Perhaps it is possible to somehow determine where the bullet should originate using the offset from the weapon's image_archive file?

Posted by ahuillet
Raising priority as this is an issue that must be fixed before a release.

It seems hard to retrieve it from weapon's image. If you want it to perfectly
fit, it should need to add a 'reference' in the blender model, such as the one
used to compute the offset, I think.

I took a crack at this a couple months ago. I came to the same conclusion as 
fluzz. I had marginal success doing it by calculating a bullet position based on 
the gun's image's dimensions, but couldn't figure the math between image offset 
and height/width. Let me know if you'd like more detail on my attempt.

So, as far as I understand it, the bullet's on-screen vertical offset is not
computed, but use the value defined in the .offset file of each bullet images
(meaning that it does not take into account the weapon used to fire the bullet,
since the same offset will be used for all weapons using that type of bullet).
I don't know how those offsets where initially computed...
I will try to change those offset values to reflect the new Tux model, but we
definitely need a better fix, after 0.15.

So how is this coming along?

I am just on it.

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Date : sam., nov. 19, 2011 18:40
Objet : [issue344] ANIMATION: Bullets should start near gun muzzle
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salimiles <stinkyfishheadisred@yahoo.com> added the comment:

So how is this coming along?

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Patch on http://rb.freedroid.org/r/1630/
That's an intermediate fix to have a better offset, but some more work is needed
to fix all issues related to bullet (and possibly blast) offset.

Fixed in 5198. Thanks!