I'm trying to make a weapon that when shot, creates an invisible pinned MOSRotating that sits still in the air and runs a .lua that causes bombs to rain from the sky all over the level, then delete itself. The weapon works just fine, and is able to pin the MOSRotating in place to run the .lua, but the .lua doesn't work... I can't figure out what I did wrong. Can someone please look at this and tell me what I did wrong?



It keeps giving me an error that is something along the lines of "No overload of MovableMan matches blah blah blah". It gives this error constantly, so much so that after shooting the weapon a couple times I get around 3 - 5 frames per second, just from all the errors.

Also, it does drop one bomb, but that is it. It is supposed to drop 30 bombs, randomly around the level, which I don't know how to do. Right now, it drops a single bomb onto the seam of the level, the part where it X-wraps. I want to make it drop them in random positions around the level, but I don't know how.

Normally I just consult the wiki when I need help with lua, but it seems that both the main wiki and the third party wiki are now gone...

This is your problem. Right here..... THIS EXACT LINE.

Its not supposed to be in the Create function, because its only defining it once. Once the function MovableMan:AddParticle() is used then it steals that pointer and that pointer cant be called again. If you put the pointer in the function Update then it should be working, put it like this and it should work right.



EDIT: Also just for a heads up, if you want it to be 'Permanent' and only created once, then thats when you should put it in the Create Function, Otherwise you might have some slight problems with positioning.

Thanks Coops, that solved my problem, but now I have a new problem... The bombs spawn at the same spot like normal, but they spawn so fast that it looks like there is just an image of a bomb sitting there, constantly exploding. I checked the lua console and now it says I am getting vector errors.

I don't really want to fix the vector I have right now, any clues on how to make them spawn in random X positions but at the top of the map?

Your call of Vector(pos,-20) makes no sense, as "pos" hasn't been defined.



I have no idea what all you guys were playing at :/

I had two timers because it was supposed to make lots of bombs in a short time period. If bombVar = 1, then after 100 MS, it would create a bomb. If 3000 MS had passed, bombVar would be set to 0 to stop making bombs, and then the MOSRotating would delete itself. At least, thats how its supposed to work.

The try something like this.

Yeah, I tried your Scene.Width thing, but it gave me errors in the lua console. It said that Width for Scene had not yet been defined.

I just took the code I had originally and replaced the vector with geti's vector, it works fine now. Thanks everyone for your help.

EDIT:

Actually, one more thing... How do I make it so the bombs that are spawned don't have names above them? Do I have to change them from TDExplosive to MOSRotating?

I'm afraid that doesn't work. Is there any specific location I have to put that?

After you define the Bomb.

That is exactly where I have it now, it doesn't work.

I don't know why everyone is seeing it written as a lowercase i, but if you look at the OP you can see they are all capital.

Also, any advice on how to prevent names from appearing over the bombs would be appreciated.

Show us the script.

It really isn't much different than last time. It works just fine, but the name of the bomb appears above them.