Changing rate of weapon fire for each weapon
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| I have a set of variables with three (3) different choices.. The player can be one of the following: 1. Bare Hands 2. Hold Shotgun 3. Hold Revolver http://www.chadmcrae.com/questionofgun.bmp Now, I was looking at WolRons code for a fps and would like something like that.. But however, instead of parenting the bulletmesh to weapon1, which in the case of his example is a cylinder, can I parent it to my entity of my weapon? Also, whenever a different weapon is picked, can I use different variables for the rate of fire? Since shotgun "spreads" out when fired, can I have an entity that appears "spread" out when the revolver may be just a simple cone (just an example)? And one last question before I go, how comes sometimes when I'm testing my code, and I press F5, why is it that sometimes it says "Function can only appear once" or whatever it means by that, and I have to get rid of the last function I did? Did I make a booboo somewhere or am I missing something? Thanks, Chad |
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| "Function can only appear once" suggests you are giving two functions the same name. Without looking at WolRon's code for a fps I would have thought a fairly easy way to have different rates of fire/spreads etc would be to have something like this (pseudo code not real blitz code shown below) [code] type ProjectileWeaponTemplate field rateoffire field spread field ImpartedBulletspeed# field ImpartedBulletDamage end type type BulletObject field Speed# field Damage field pivothandle ;used for positioning the bullet - collision detection is between the pivot and the scene/characters field entityhandle ;the visual appearance of the bullet, no collision information needed for this, parent it to the pivothandle end type then in your code you would, when a weapon is fired, First:create new bullets (1-number specified in rate of fire in the weapon type) and create pivots/copy entities, Second:orient the bullets to point in the direction of the muzzle, with a random variation in the direction as specified by 'spread' in the weapon type Third:assign a speed and damage value to the bullet and each frame you would have some code in a function like this: function UpdateBullets() for Bullet.BulletObject=each BulletObject ;move the bullet with 'moveentity' moveentity bullet\pivothandle ;check if the bullet has collided with the scene/a character and if so then handle damage/explosions etc next end function [code] |
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