so wait, thats the actual function.update() i need? wow thanks! Imma try this out as soon as I get this other thing to work... but its not a lua problem.

Maybe one of you can help me with this... its really dumb. I had an object with 1 gib, and it worked perfectly. I added a second gib, and then neither gib works, but it doesn't crash. would 2 hitsMOS = 0 things gibbing at the same x,y coordinate make it not work, or can you use an MOPixel as a gib?



The wiki is wrong, I've used that code without the "== true", the wiki is wrong.

Miles is right, you don't need to check for trueness most of the time.

hey man.

it isn't function.update(), its just Update(), function is telling the interpreter that you are defining a function.
that niggle aside, yes you can use a MOPixel as a gib, no i dont know what the problem is. do you mean 2 things gibbing or 2 gibs being produced by 1 thing gibbing?

TDE Gibs into AEmitter, works fine

TDE Gibs into AEmitter AND an MOPixel, Neither the AEmitter nor MOPixel are created.

I also wouldn't need the MOPixel if i could get a screen effect / glow to work on the AEmitter. for some reason when I add the glow, it doesn't work either. if it makes any difference the glow is 376 x 376.

glow should be attached to the flash of the aemitter, not the aemitter itself.

Well, I didn't have a flash, so I added one... and now it has the proper glow, but its placing it about 80 pixels to the RIGHT of the AEmitter itself. wtf is going on with this?

and now i'm having another problem, again... the TDE i'm using that creates the AEmitter, as a gib, when the TDE Gibs, it isn't creating ANY of its gibs. If I can't get this to work, I may have to totally re-design my entire mod.... again...

modify the jointoffset of the flash to be 0,0, and spriteoffset to be in.. actually it shouldnt matter if you have the jointoffset on 0,0, but make it the center for good measure.
you're probably defining the gibs wrong if they arent appearing, or your .ini is corrupted.

I didn't define the offsets at all for the flash, which makes it automatically 0,0. my gibs are in the proper place because it WAS working. the ini isn't corrupted because then it would give me an error, it does not.

If I load the scene editor, I can place the AEmitter, and it works, so it isn't corrupt, but the flash, is appearing about 100-200 pixels to the right, even though I didn't define the offsets, making it 0,0, and since the only offset in the AEmitter is 1.5, 1.5, on a 3x3 null sprite.... I don't have any clue what's wrong, I've actually re-made it from scratch, by re-typing the code, re-arranging the code, re-naming it, flipping around where in what object things are defined (like the glow in the AEmitter, theres about 3 places it will load, only one works, or the TDE). I've tried using lua to pu the AEmitter in the right place, it didn't work.

My game just hates me.

If I can't get that part working in the next week, which should be F-ing simple but for some reason it isn't, then I'm out of the contest. I'll probably re-use the lua for a different mod though just so it doesn't seem like I wasted y'all's time. in the mean time, I need a break for a day or so. if anyone thinks of anything that could be whats wrong, it'd be much appreciated.

I'm pretty sure flashes automatically offset the glow to be exactly 50% vertically and 100% horizontally to the right of the flash (if the emitter is facing 0').

really? i thought all glows were placed at the spriteoffset.

also miles, thats giving up way too easy. we have much more than a week from now, but i need to get mine in before then for exams. unless you have a simmilar excuse "my game hates me" is a dumb excuse. download CC again.

for the corrupt .ini, i meant for the gibs not appearing. why are you using a TDE anyway? they're just MOSRs that behave weirdly at times, and come with a free timer. try doing the addparticles thing, like the old flak cannon did on the TDE. if that doesnt work, use a MOSR or AEmitter for the bullet, and see if using a TDE is your problem. you can Lua timers into those for gibbing anyway, or use the delay variable on emissions of the emitter. for someone advocating the use of .ini over Lua coding so strongly a while ago, you seem to be neglecting backdoors.

I'm using a TDE because it is a grenade >_>