My gun fires an MOPixel, and the MO pixel runs the lua script.

I want the script to spawn an emitter at the same velocity and direction as the original MOPixel. So far, I have that. What I don't have, is more than one object spawned. I want it to spawn 50 objects randomly within a certain field after the MOPixel. So let's so they randomly spawn between pixel 0 and 100. BUT I WOULD PREFER if I could get them to shoot out evenly spaced every time. So The first emitter spawns from the MOPixel, and another one spawns five pixels ahead, and then another one five pixels ahead, and so on.

Here is what I have so far. You can see I tried to use the random method, but I am terrible at lua. Once again I would prefer if they were evenly spaced every time.

If you want them all spawned at once, I would use a for-loop.

I have not tested this code, it's just a tweak of something I wrote a while ago. There's probably a better way to do that too.

As for placement, do you want a straight line in front of the original MOPixel, or random emitters scattered all around?
I don't get it.
Please reiterate what you want most from this, I am confused by the way you initially say random, and then say evenly spaced.
Neither way is impossible, or even difficult, but we need to know exactly how to help.
Also, is this to use sparkle magic to make an effect look nice? I am a fan of prettiness in CC weapons.

Well thanks for the reply!

Well let's just focus on the "evenly spaced" method, because I would prefer that.

So it will look like this:



The MOPixel is fired, and from that position it spawns the objects all directly ahead of each other with five pixels in between each spawned object. And I want them to spawn at the same time(or as close as possible). Also, refer to the GIF bellow, that's how it should work.

No sparkle magic required to make it look better, it already looks great:

That version is bugged though, using ridiculous offsets and whatnot. It uses a high separation and and high muzzleoffset, but that causes some issues so I need to achieve that same effect with lua. But yeah, it's going to look like that.

Also, I tested that code and it said "=" or "in" expected near "<"

I could watch that gif all day.
How far do you want it to fire?

I think a loop of using the particle's rotation (or that of its parent) and then measuring out an increasing distance and placing a dot there is all you need to do, to a limit of whatever range you want it to fire. Simple Trig stuff, I'll test it and show you shortly.

Got a lot of soldering to do on a real-world project first, should be done in a few hours.

Alright, cool. Are we talking distance in pixels?

Maybe somewhere around 1000 pixels.

Spent three hours on stupid stupid errors, have to temporarily admit defeat.
There is something very wrong here, and it's missing some of what is supposed to be there, but it's code you can look at I suppose.
http://pastebin.com/d111c685e
The error is with AddParticle., if anyone has any idea why this fails to work, let me know.
It's is letter for latter the same code I have used in another script.

I've had some problems where if there is an "if" or "for" statement between the to-be-spawned MO definition and the spawning part when using "local" variables. Change it to "self" and it should work.

It's because you only have one 'beam' particle that you're attempting to create fifty times in different spots. If you define it as local inside the if it should work fine.

Ahhahahaha
This is why I should not be allowed to code after 15 hours of consciousness.

Pulled the junk out, reorganized, here's something you can try to use.
http://pastebin.com/m76411ebc
This script is attached to a null bullet the gun fires, which must have a lifetime of 1 and a high pinstrength.
Then of course you need to define


You will probably want to make the glows move or something too.
I'm fiddling with making the spawned glows disperse nicely now.

Well... the good news is that it works.

The bad news is that it doesn't work right...

(And they are appearing so far out front because the muzzleoffset, not the script, so don't worry about that part)

I was kinda hoping it would fire in a straight line despite the aiming direction

And even so, firing horizontally, all the emitters travel at a downward angle(which you can see in that gif too)

Thanks for all the effort so far though, gosh, you've put a lot of time into this already

Thank you

Hah, I bet it was not able to find the actor that fired it.
Fix the offset, and then tell me if it still does that, I can also just change how it finds him.

If anyone knows a way to make the fired emitters defeat gravity without attaching Lua to all of them, please speak up.

Add this line to the emitters' code:

OH GOD FUUUUUUUUU-


I only changed the muzzleoffset by like, 20 pixels that's all D:

This is THE best fail ever.
I suspect you placed the offset 20 px behind the gun, or something crazy.

Can I work on the code directly?
Then I'll fix the getting-of-aim-angle thing too.

I suspect gravity and a map that loops very quickly happened.