Why does my weapon kill me.

incenseman2003 · Post by **incenseman2003** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 8:37 pm

I made a weapon and when I fire it, it kills me and not the things Im shooting at. Can anyone tell me why that would happen and how to fix it?

hike1 · Post by **hike1** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:56 pm

I'll bet you have the firepoint of the weapon inside the weapon,
you need a Z? offset for it so the projectile fires out from the barrel.

incenseman2003 · Post by **incenseman2003** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 12:54 am

I have searched the weapon.ini file and found no reference to "firepoint". I also did not see it in the setting for the weapon entity in the editor. It also is not in the player.ini. Can you please tell me exactly what you mean?

Juutis · Post by **Juutis** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:55 am

I believe he means the "playerlaunchoffset" and "viewlaunchoffset" fields in your weapon.ini. There should be three numbers defining the X, Y and Z offset for the firepoint. Z is the last one and changing it should fix your problem.

GD1 · Post by **GD1** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 4:41 pm

i've had the same problem myself.

the problem is a combination of the firepoint (playerlaunchoffset and/or viewlaunch offset) being inside the player's bounding box and the explosion settings on the projectile. the projectile hits inside of you, but that wouldn't normally cause damage. but, because it explodes, the splash damage from the explosion DOES cause damage to you because you are inside the range of the explosion.

move out the firepoint and try turning off the explosion settings for the projectile (all the settings i've mentioned are in weapon.ini)

incenseman2003 · Post by **incenseman2003** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:27 pm

Ok, the explosion for the projectile is off and the x plane for the launchpoint is set so that firing the weapon doesnt kill me. However, it doesnt kill anything else ether.

Any thoughts?

Post by **QuestOfDreams** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:48 am

What is the attribute the weapon does damage to? Is it the same as the attribute of the objects that should be damaged?

PS: If you specify a different damage-attribute for the weapon (e.g. monsterhealth instead of health) the player won't get damaged.

incenseman2003 · Post by **incenseman2003** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:02 pm

In my last post I mentiond that I no longer get killed by my own weapon but neither does anything else now. the issue of my weapon killing me has been solved. Now I just need to get it to kill other things. It just has no affect at all on other characters.

hike1 · Post by **hike1** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:47 pm

post your weapon.ini

incenseman2003 · Post by **incenseman2003** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:59 pm

Here is the weapon.ini that I am using.

[Tavor]
type = weapon
slot = 3
firerate = 0.2
catagory = projectile
projectile = WeaponBullet
attribute = health
ammunition = WeaponBullet
shotpermagazine = 100
ammopershot = 1
attacksound = Weapons/Fire.wav
reloadsound = Weapons/Reload.wav
emptysound = Weapons/Empty.wav
crosshair = crosshair.bmp
crosshairalpha = a_crosshair.bmp
crosshairfixed = true
allowlitcrosshair = true
crosshairlitcolor = 255 0 0
recoilamount = -5
recoildecay = 80
;
; 1st Person
;
viewactor = Weapons/tavor.act
viewfillcolor = 255 255 255
viewambientcolor = 255 255 255
viewrotation = -90 90 180
viewoffset = -5 -5 -2.5
viewscale = -0.1
viewlaunchoffset = -5 3.5 21
viewlaunchbone = BONE01
viewanimationspeed = 1
viewarmanim = Draw
viewidleanim = Idle
viewattackanim = Fire
viewaltattackanim = Fire
viewhitanim = Fire
viewalthitanim = Fire
viewwalkanim = Walk
muzzleflash = MuzzleFlash1
crosshair = crosshair.bmp
crosshairalpha = a_crosshair.bmp
crosshairfixed = true
allowlitcrosshair = true
crosshairlitcolor = 255 0 0
recoilamount = 10
recoildecay = 5
bobamount = 20
viewreloadanim = Reload
viewkeyreloadanim = Reload
viewattackemptyanim = Fire
environmentmapping = false
allmaterial = false
percentmapping = 0
percentmaterial = 0

[WeaponBullet]
type = projectile
actor = Weapons/Projectile.act
rotation = 0 0 0
scale = 0.1
gravity = false
bounce = false
speed = 3000
lifetime = 2
boundingbox = 1
explosion = GeneralExplosion
actorexplosion = GeneralExplosion
showboth = false
attachactor = false
bonelevel = true
damage = 50
altdamage = 50
explosionradius = 128
explosiondamage = 20
decal = 0
movesound = footsteps/footstep.wav
impactsound = Weapons/Impact.wav

Post by **QuestOfDreams** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 12:23 pm

In my last post I mentiond that I no longer get killed by my own weapon but neither does anything else now. the issue of my weapon killing me has been solved. Now I just need to get it to kill other things. It just has no affect at all on other characters.

1) I just wanted to show you a different way to keep your player from getting damaged
2) The objects you want to kill must have the attribute that your weapon does damage to (in your case attribute = health).
3) Which objects do you want to damage? If you want to kill Pawns make sure that the script they are running has the necessary orders ( http://dhost.info/realityfactory/online ... htm#HEALTH )

GD1 · Post by **GD1** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:25 pm

[WeaponBullet]
type = projectile
actor = Weapons/Projectile.act
rotation = 0 0 0
scale = 0.1
gravity = false
bounce = false
speed = 3000
lifetime = 2
boundingbox = 1
explosion = GeneralExplosion
actorexplosion = GeneralExplosion
showboth = false
attachactor = false
bonelevel = true
damage = 50
altdamage = 50
explosionradius = 128
explosiondamage = 20
decal = 0
movesound = footsteps/footstep.wav
impactsound = Weapons/Impact.wav

if you'll notice, i've highlighted bonelevel = true. Bone level was designed way back in the day when we were trying to give developers the ability to script extra-damage for headshots. the idea was that collision detection would be based on the BBox of the individual bones instead of the actor's BBox. the problem with this was that the BBox for the individual bones was too small, and it required a VERY accurate shot to hit the object.

set bonelevel = false to go back to regular collision detection. this should solve your problem.

incenseman2003 · Post by **incenseman2003** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 1:19 pm

I just rebuilt the weapon act to get a visual reference as to where the bone was and adjusted from there. It no long kills me and does kill other things.

However I would like to get it to make no explosion when the projectile hits something. Havent succeeded yet. Im sure I over looked something simple. Can someone tell me what that might be?

Thanks

Post by **AndyCR** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 5:43 pm

Removing (better yet, commenting out) all the lines that start with Explosion should work.

incenseman2003 · Post by **incenseman2003** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 9:51 pm

AndyCR,

Thanks for the tip abot the explosions. Working fine now.

There is a problem that was not there before though. When I fire an exploding weapon under water the game crashes. The weapon fires, the projectile goes out and hits the target, the explosion starts, the game crashes. If I fire the same weapon obove water it did crashed a few times but seems to have stopped on its own. This only happens under water.

Edit: 6:14 PM 6/18/2006:
It now happens above water as well again. Seems to come and go. Works fine for about 3-4 shots and then the game crashes.
There are no errors in the RealityFactory.log. All I get is the generic window error that say that the program has to close.

I set the weapon that I made to fire the exploding ammo of the generic weapon. I fired 100 rounds and killed many bad guys. The game did not crash. This leads me to think that the issue is with the generic weapon its self.

Any helpful input on this would be greatly appreciated.

Here is the script for the weapon:

[Weapon]
type = weapon
slot = 2
firerate = 1
catagory = projectile
projectile = WeaponBullet
attribute = health
ammunition = WeaponBullet
shotpermagazine = 100
ammopershot = 1
attacksound = Weapons/Fire.wav
reloadsound = Weapons/Reload.wav
emptysound = Weapons/Empty.wav
crosshair = crosshair.bmp
crosshairalpha = a_crosshair.bmp
crosshairfixed = true
allowlitcrosshair = true
crosshairlitcolor = 255 0 0
recoilamount = -5
recoildecay = 80
;
; 1st Person
;
viewactor = Weapons/Weapon.act
viewfillcolor = 255 255 255
viewambientcolor = 255 255 255
viewrotation = -90 90 180
viewoffset = -5 -5 -2.5
viewscale = -0.1
viewlaunchoffset = -5 3.5 20
viewlaunchbone = BONE01
viewanimationspeed = 1
viewarmanim = Draw
viewidleanim = Idle
viewattackanim = Fire
viewaltattackanim = Fire
viewhitanim = Fire
viewalthitanim = Fire
iewwalkanim = Walk
muzzleflash = MuzzleFlash1
crosshair = crosshair.bmp
crosshairalpha = a_crosshair.bmp
crosshairfixed = true
allowlitcrosshair = true
crosshairlitcolor = 255 0 0
recoilamount = 10
recoildecay = 5
bobamount = 20
viewreloadanim = Reload
viewkeyreloadanim = Reload
viewattackemptyanim = Fire
environmentmapping = false
allmaterial = false
percentmapping = 0
percentmaterial = 0