Visibility settings ensure that only the arms are visible to the player, while only the humanoid is visible to everybody else. Therefore, the best practice is to have two character meshes: a first-person character mesh consisting of nothing but arms holding a weapon, and a full third-person humanoid character mesh. For realism, this is one of the few user interfaces rendered as 3D. Instead, it is really a UI or HUD, with the arms and weapon part of the interface to show where the character is shooting (and what the character is shooting with). In fact, conceptually, the first-person character is not an in-game object. This is one of the many situations in games and movies where absolute realism does not translate well to the viewer’s or player’s experience. You can try that if you like, but it generally does not work very well. It is tempting to use the third-person character and place a first-person camera in a location corresponding to the character’s eyes and use that for the first-person view. However, if it is a multiplayer game, or even a single player game in which one can look in a mirror or a closed-circuit video, the full third-person humanoid character is visible. In contrast to a full third-person humanoid character, all the player can see is the gun and possibly part of hands and arms of the character.
A first-person shooter (like Robot Dynamite) needs a first-person character.
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