statusbar covers too much of weapon?

[neogeographica]

Not sure yet if this is "bug" or "enhancement".

As noted by @Xylemon in a comment on https://github.com/SpiritQuaddicted/reQuiem/pull/48 , reQuiem's weapon viewmodel is riding kinda low, especially noticeable when cl_sbar is 1.

I see that in V_CalcRefdef in WinQuake/QuakeWorld, the gun origin's Z value is incremented by various amounts for different viewsizes. But in reQuiem this code (in V_AddViewWeapon) is commented out.

Survey of some other code:

• Engoo does the incrementing.
• FMV does it only if r_viewmodelhackpos is set.
• Super8 has it commented out, but also does a significant increment if cl_nobob is set.
• QuakeSpasm has removed it.

Spirit, do you know what might be going on with these changes/decisions? I would guess it's because some of these engines expect users to have a transparent statusbar, so they don't want to do statusbar-avoiding hacks that look weird when the statusbar is transparent. But I don't know for sure what is behind these differences.

[neogeographica]

Started a fishing thread at http://forums.inside3d.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5527