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Well, How can I do scripted weapons and menu? What comands should I use?

the menu is modified by editing the menu.ini file.....

check out this downlod with several tutorials.... ther is one called menuini
http://www.mapvault.com/xoops/modules/P ... =24&lid=52

and are you talking about scripted weapons, or custom weapons?....
scripted weapons - you have to do them just like any other scripted pawn... (very similar to a scripted player).... just make a pawn that can be attached to your player/pawn , and script the keys to fire , etc....

for a customm weapon, best bet is to take a look at one of the predefined weapons (in the weapon.ini file), and try changing the references for a particular weapon... change the explosion, the ammo, theact file, etc.... this is the easiest way... make sur eto make a bakup of the files first.... if you want to use a half life model for a custom weapon, then there is a tutorial here... (information can be found in the docs on this)
http://www.mapvault.com/xoops/modules/P ... =24&lid=53

both of theese can probably also be found at http://terrymorgan.net/download.htm

No I meanscripted weapons. Basicaly since I want to add features not available on the weapon.ini file. For example, I want a radio controlled bomb in which the player plants the bomb using the bomb actor. When it is planted I want it to change to the detonator actor. After it is detonated, I want it to change to the original bomb actor back.

The menu.INI file also does not feature a custom interface. we can notdo anything other than the predefined buttons.

Http://terrymorgan.net/download.htm


Demo071c -(1.4MB) Seamless level changes, spinning spotlights, Dan Valeo's land mine system, jump pads, Streaming Audio Proxy, flying enemies.

You can alter the heck out of the menu, it's just a pain in the
ass, so most people just change the graphics.

menuini.zip same place. Pretty obsolete with Gimp 2.2 out.

Also a ton of stuff in the dox.

Look back to a demo I've 0.5 years ago and posted
This RF has additional code that supports fully scripted menu's + includes a menu-conversation command

The coming new release should also include this code

well thats about the scripted menu. when is the new release likely to come out? looking forward to it. what about the scripted weapons?

Depends on how fast I can get fixed a few pending bugs

Sorry to "Bump" this topic but I need a little push and it seems to have been left out in the cold..

Right now I have a scripted player that needs to pick up a "bat"
and get into some trouble...

I have the Bat waiting for the player to be within a certain distance then when the "interaction is pressed" the Bat has to
attach to the players bone matching all angles. ( LowLevel = easy part)

I found the command in highLevel ( master bone and slave)
but this will only run in high, cant switch to lowLevel.

Is there a way to attach to a bone in low level?
( Bat "BONE" to Player "BONE) ( LowLevel= Hard Part)

Thanks all.

why not use the pawn weapon system? i havent used it, so i dont know how advanced it is, but pawns can use weapons aswell.

Thanks,

I took alook closer to the GenericPlayer.s
I see that WEAPONHAND is declared.

How can you attach the weapon to the Pawn?
I have evrything else defined and working fine.
I just need this part( yep, a very important part I know..lol)

Hmm, Just went through things..

Is the million Dollar answer " SetAttribute()" ?

i think the docs say, i do know for one that the weapons are defined in pawn.ini.

basically if you want to script something, you need to use a pawn and a combination of another entity or built-in feature

you can create customized weapon 'selection' systems via pawns, etc

for a radio controlled bomb you would want 2 pawns - one for the radio control and one for the bomb itself.

there is a 'trip mine' demo that was posted a while back by dan valeo - not sure if anyone has it hosted at the moment, if not i'll try to get it posted online...

the 'ogre' game basically has a demo of this as well, you can drop mines and detonate them remotely...

not sure what you mean by 'scripted menus' - if you want to customize your menu, you edit the ini files - if you want to create a custom menu and/or conversation - you create scripts and use the conversation scripting system (which is pawn-based).

Ya know sometime ya get so wraped up in over complicating things, you end up missing the more obviouse things.

I had the Bat in game for sometime now...

I didn't have the "Bat" actor the same scale as the Pawn....oops

Hence, the bat was way above the Pawn the whole time just out of the camera view. After I scaled the bat to 12 I happened to catch a small glimps of the handle in the corner of the screen.

Scaled down and "Boom" He now carries a baseball bat, ready to cause a little trouble.

Thanks for all the help and suggestions everyone!!