Final weapon questions

[Lynkyn]

Well for finish, I want to do some questions for do my weapons more realistic:
1.- Decals. Is it possible to alternate the decals of the projectiles? I say this because with a gun it doesn't look bad, but with shotguns, it's not realistic that always appears the same decal...
2.- Sounds. Is there any way to do sounds for arm and idle? It would be handy for weapons like chainsaw (motor sound at idle) or guns that reload in draw animation.
3.- Alt-things(XD). Is it possible to do that in the alt-shoot the ammunition wasted be double, or the fire rate more slow (in weapons than a shotgun with a simple and double fire)

Thanks all you

[Danimita92]

Joer, que pesao con las armas (Jesus, you and your weapons)
I only really know how to answer number 2.
You can use a script that plays a chainsaw (or whatever sound you want) sound whenever you've selected X weapon and the shooting key hasn't been pressed (you're not attacking with the weapon). And another one that plays if you're attacking with a weapon and you're using that weapon.

[Juutis]

None of those things are possible with the built-in weapon system.

1.) and 3.) Scripted weapons is the only solution. You could have a variety of projectiles for one weapon, each having a different decal and then randomly choose which projectile to shoot. Also, the built-in weapons can't have alternative fire. It doesn't really matter whether you press the fire or the alt-fire button, the action is always the same. Scripted weapons would solve this one too...

2.) As Danimita already said you could use a script to check if the chainsaw is armed and then play a sound. You can also check if the player changes his weapon -> A new weapon is armed -> Play the arming sound:

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{

playerweapon    [0]

soundtimer    [0]

Spawn[ ()
{
     LowLevel("run");
} ]

run[ ()
{
     self.ThinkTime = 0.05;

     if(soundtimer < 0)    // a timer to prevent the sound from overlapping
     {
          if(self.player_weapon = 1)     //if the player has the weapon with index 1 armed
          {
               PlaySound("idlesound.wav",100000);
          }

          soundtimer = self.time + 0.5;    //play the sound every 0.5 seconds
     }

     if(playerweapon != self.player_weapon)   //if player changes his weapon
     {
          playerweapon = self.player_weapon;

          if(playerweapon = 1)
          {
               PlaySound("armsound",100000);
          }
     }
} ]

}

I hope this gets you started.

[Lynkyn]

Thanks you, I will try this

HAHAHA AND THE FINAL QUESTION (XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD)
In some weapons, like shotguns or non-semiautomatic-rifles, the shell must go out a few seconds after the shoot, but I dont know how to do it. Is it necesary a scripted weapon? thanks

PD: i looked the ''shellspray'' in effect.ini, I didn't see any parameter to change for this
Thanks!

[Juutis]

Yeah, I think that requires scripted weapons. Not sure about this one though...

[Lynkyn]

Ok.
Note: i dont know how to do you script works

I changed ''playerweapon'' to ''motosierra'' (chainsaw), the name of my weapon, and i do a pawn type ''camera'', etc. What I must to do?

Thanks again. And again. And again XDD

[Juutis]

No. 'playerweapon' is just a variable that stores an integer (a number) that tells the slot of the player's weapon. There's no need to change that in any way.

These are the lines you want to change:

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if(self.player_weapon = 1)
...
if(playerweapon = 1)

They check if the player has the weapon in slot 1 armed. So if you have your chainsaw in weapon slot number 4 you would set:

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if(self.player_weapon = 4)
...
if(playerweapon = 4)

You'll probably want to change the sounds in the PlaySound() commands, too. And:

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soundtimer = self.time + 0.5;

Controls how often the idle sound is played. So if your idle sound is 2 seconds long you would set:

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soundtimer = self.time + 2;

[Lynkyn]

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{

playerweapon    [0]

soundtimer    [0]

Spawn[ ()
{
     LowLevel("run");
} ]

run[ ()
{
     self.ThinkTime = 0.05;

     if(soundtimer < 0)    // a timer to prevent the sound from overlapping
     {
          if(self.player_weapon = 10)     //if the player has the weapon with index 1 armed
          {
               PlaySound("motoidle.wav",100000);
          }

          soundtimer = self.time + 0.5;    //play the sound every 0.5 seconds
     }

     if(playerweapon != self.player_weapon)   //if player changes his weapon
     {
          playerweapon = self.player_weapon;

          if(playerweapon = 10)
          {
               PlaySound("motodraw",100000);
          }
     }
} ]

}

It doesn't work

[Juutis]

Oh, sorry! My bad. Once again. Try this:

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{

playerweapon    [0]

soundtimer    [0]

Spawn[ ()
{
     LowLevel("run");
} ]

run[ ()
{
     self.ThinkTime = 0.05;

     if(soundtimer < self.time)    // a timer to prevent the sound from overlapping
     {
          if(self.player_weapon = 10)     //if the player has the weapon with index 1 armed
          {
               PlaySound("motoidle.wav",100000);
          }

          soundtimer = self.time + 0.5;    //play the sound every 0.5 seconds
     }

     if(playerweapon != self.player_weapon)   //if player changes his weapon
     {
          playerweapon = self.player_weapon;

          if(playerweapon = 10)
          {
               PlaySound("motodraw",100000);
          }
     }
} ]

}

It worked for me at least. I tested it with weapon slots 1, 2, 3 and 10. All worked except for 10, for some reason. Maybe because the weapons are normally 0-9 or something like that...

[Lynkyn]

Thanks (I will change the slot of my chainsaw XD)

Aaarg, it doesn't works, but...

Where the sounds must be? I have got them all on media/sounds.

Note: my chainsaw is now on slot 9, and... there isn't a 'slot 10' because the slots are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD I am idiotXD

[Juutis]

In some weapons, like shotguns or non-semiautomatic-rifles, the shell must go out a few seconds after the shoot, but I dont know how to do it. Is it necesary a scripted weapon?

Actually, yeah. There might be a way:

You can set a delay to the effects in explosion.ini. So for example if you have a muzzle flash explosion:

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[MuzzleFlash]
effect0 = MuzzleFlash
delay0 = 0
offset0 = 0 0 0
effect1 = WhiteLight
delay1 = 0
offset1 = 0 0 0
effect2 = ShellSpray
delay2 = 0
offset2 = 0 0 0

You could set:

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[MuzzleFlash]
effect0 = MuzzleFlash
delay0 = 0
offset0 = 0 0 0
effect1 = WhiteLight
delay1 = 0
offset1 = 0 0 0
effect2 = ShellSpray
delay2 = 1
offset2 = 0 0 0

And the ShellSpray effect would come one second after the other effects.