I'm currently making a small weapons mod which I may in time release, only trying to match the function of certain weapons is stalled me.

Here are the guns I have made so far, the gold prices are just low for testing purposes, and many of the sprites are WiP.


I've most recently tried making the infinity modulator and wanted to give it something special, a glowing trail to make it look like a solid beam of energy and I got this using a emitter similar to the one in the dummies destroyer.

As you can see that no where near solid looking and it starts no where near the gun, I was wondering how I could fix it to make the emitted particles emit closer together. I tried doubling the particles per minute with no effect, I've poked around in other variables with no effect also.

Explosions from TDexplosives are omni directional and just spread the explosion everywhere, would it be possible to send out a directional shock wave to the sides of a blast?

Finally the drop bombs, like the standard bomb and napalm bomb, how can I activate the timer on a weapon like them so it explodes after a set time period and not just upon impact? It's for a bunker buster I'm messing around with.

Many people used a huge muzzleflash to cover the bullets.
Making it look like a laser.

whats the bullet velocity? also you can try to make it emit particles that have a very long trail in which you draw after parent. but it will only be a line and not a solid long glow.

1. MuzzleOffset too far from gun or there is a delay between the shot and the emission.

2. Spread is the variable you are looking for.

3. TriggerDelay and ActivatesWhenReleased = 0 on TDExplosive for dropped bombs with timers.
Or you can use a lua timer that will gib the explosive.

The muzzle offset is actually slightly into the end of the gun and I don't have any delays that I know of but I'll recheck my code and do some more in game testing to be sure.

I'll mess with spread, see if that changes anything.

I think I may have tried ActivatesWhenReleased = 0 with a one second triggerdelay and it wasn't working, I might have to fall back onto Lua.



It's 100 currently.



For anyone who is wondering all the weapons under the FG's are from Star Trek Voyager: Elite force. I'm going to do the Arc Welder after I finish the I-mod. I might make other ingame weapons and bombs from the single and multiplayer. And yes I named the Grenade Launcher wrong, it's a Compound Grenade Launcher, I've fixed that.

What's the ParticlesPerMinute on the glows? It should be in the upper 12000's to make a straight line.

It's currently 6500 but originally was 3500, I have bumped it to 12000 with no effect. I'll throw in some ridiculously high variable to see if it does anything. I also may try to hack in some code from how the thrusters emit particles to try to solve this problem as they seem to have no problem kicking out endless streams of particles.


Is it possible that a single line or command somewhere could effectively kill certain other lines of code from taking place, such as keeping the PPM from effecting anything? Sorry for the question, even though I've done a lot of work in Cortex Command there's still lots that's foreign to me.

The only thing that seems to have worked is changing the speed for obvious reasons but if it travels at a snails pace it isn't some space aged energy weapon now is it.

For the spread, I have no clue as to how it works as poking around certain variables didn't do much.

Also I'm going to try to lua the bunker buster as ActivatesWhenReleased seems to have no effect on anything.

Particles per minute seems to have an upper cap. If you absolutely still have problems with it it's fairly easy to make a neato trail w/ lua.

Ok, so after making bouncing balls, "tremors" than crawl through the terrain, solid glows, and particle storms I learned one thing.

Particles per minute only causes the glows to stack after a certain amount, which caused a solid glow.

So how would I go about luaing a a trail?



What I learned from the I-mod will actually help with other weapons as some of the mistakes caused me to solve future problems.


So one question form opening post not worked on, directional blastwaves from explosives. How could I attempt this?

Directional blastwaves is kinda iffy. Again, you can do it quite precisely with Lua, but since you only asked for the PPM, here you go.

function Create(self)
self.trailtimer = Timer();
end

function Update(self)
if self.trailtimer:IsPastSimMS(10) == true then
self.trailparticle = CreateMOPixel("presetname of pixel","yourrtename.rte");
self.trailparticle.Pos = self.Pos;
self.trailparticle.Vel = Vector(0,0);
MovableMan:AddParticle(self.trailparticle);
self.trailtimer:Reset();
end
end

Add that to the projectile you're firing. If you need to adjust the delay, it's the IsPastSimMS line.

Thanks, I'll try it out. Got to love lua. I'm slowly relearning it for this game.

Where in the .ini does the lua go? I know in the Shot, but where the PPM is or above the sprite part of the projectile like in other weapons such as the destroyer cannon?

just add the line ScriptPath = <path> after the presetname.

I figured it out last night. except it faces the same problem as the non-lua'ed trail, it devolops large gaps at higher velocities. I might just try something different for the high speed shot of the I-mod and apply the trail to the lower speed shot of the Arc Welder as the trail looks rather nice at velocities of under 60.

From what i have seen -might be wrong- there isnt a upwards cap for the Particles per minute. When it get too high more then one partical is shot at the same time, which is bad for lazers, but good for stuff like diggers.

ParticlesPerMinute does not apply to weapons.

You're thinking of RoundsPerMinute.

Good try though.