My request:
A sniper rifle, whose shots accelerate. The shots are initially very slow (walking speed), but build up speed until they are very fast indeed.
Just regular bullets, if possible. Not like a bazooka round. I'm also thinking, when they travel slowly, gravity would affect them and just pull them down. So, maybe zero-grav bullets?

It is balanced, because at close ranged the bullet is not travelling fast enough to do any real damage. However, at range, where a sniper is meant to be used, it is godly. Like a lightning bolt through the chest/head/leg of your enemy. Maybe more balancing by giving it low sharpness or terrain penetration.

Feel free to make any kind of explaination as to what makes them accelerate. A crazy new element that disregards the laws of momentum?

Make sure it caps at a certain velocity. I forgot the velocity at which stuff started disappearing, but make the cap that.

function Update(self)
self.Vel.Magnitude = self.Vel.Magnitude + 1;
end

self.Vel.Magnitude is read only.

Well there goes THAT plan.

Could you just multiply Vel by a constant to get a marginally larger vector? Or just split it into Vel.X and Vel.Y and multiply by some speed constant.

Adds 1 to velocity every frame.

Couldn't you simply use negative air friction?

Doesn't work. They tried in the dummy drunken rocket launcher thread.

self.Vel.X = self.Vel.X * 1.1;
self.Vel.Y = self.Vel.Y * 1.1;


Multiply speed by 10% extra per frame. Not fancy, but works well.

You could just do self.Vel = self.Vel * 1.1 if you prefer unfancyness.

*Eats own hat*

And all this time I thought I couldn't do that.

Oh but you can.

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And now for the obligatory post content: Just attach this script to a bullet and you have an accelerating bullet.

Could someone upload the Dummy Sniper Rifle with this in it?
I'm none too sure where the bullet part of the script is.

I figure that would just control its range but hell what do I know?

I guess I'll be nice and give you the script/Mod you need just because I'm a nice guy and want to help people


The .ini version... I mean wow people have you ever heard of easiness on a simple stick? why use Lua if you don't have to?
Lua lags but is fun to play with -(its like:) Paint
.ini is still the base of all moding -(its like:) Bricks and Mordar

I made a lua version AND a .ini version (for your modding pleasure)
The Lua version uses Lua
The Ini version uses emitters

You are beautiful.
I'll test it in the morning. It's getting late, got college tommorrow, homework needs doing, blah blah...
I kinda asked for it as a seperate/dummy replacement as I may have turned my dummy rifle into a self-killing death shot... and not backed it up.