thing.Health = thing.Health - (100/thing.Mass)

Tweak the 100 to your liking.

All that division makes it lag.

wat.
It's one operation, seriously?
100 * thing.Mass^-1?

Being repeated every 500 ms and also being done many many many times. Because why would someone only shoot one little ball of flame? You gotta get a good sized fire going on the target.

What about... Once it has the target, it gets the mass and stores that as a variable. That way it doesn't have to check for mass and do all that extra math, it can just subtract the variable each time instead.

Unrelated:

Division is only laggy on the scale of doing it multiple times per frame.

Right, but each time the timer passes 500 ms, it re-fetches the mass and does all the math again. Keep in mind there aren't just 1 of these at a time, more like 15-50. Read my above post, I edited in an idea.

yeah, do self.damagevar = 100/(thing.Mass + 1) then take that from the dudes health. you should have the timer have a bit of randomness in it to get dispersal of the checks through many frames.

Still lags, not quite as much though.

Now what about the timer?

lol. math.random(400,600) perhaps.

Same thing.

Phosphorous... Grenades? No explosion, just your flamethrowers code.
Once you get your dilemma sorted out of course.

well tested all aspects of you stuff, ive been with this mod since it almost first came out i think, the only thing that needs improvement is the batleship, it takes about 5 sec to find a target thats right beside it and then it shoots, kills the enemy and then decides to completely 12ape the ground, aka it keeps shooting

That's because of the AI. The AI works by locating an actor, which in actuality is just the body. The head, arms, legs etc. are all just attachments.

Give the AI a sniper, and watch it aim at your actor's body.

Additionally, sometimes ungibbed actors still count as valid targets.

Because the body is the actor and even though it's health is below 0 and is now uncontrollable, it is still a target yes.


Also, the OP is long and massive, any ideas on how to re-do it? I'm thinking of doing it how I did Tek.


Also also, making a mini-nuke gun, how much kaboom do you all want to see?