Hey Guys,

im making a mod with a weapon (assault rifle) and i'd like to know how to make my weapon shoot a certain amount of Shots and then stop, kinda like burstfire.. lets say it shoots 3 shots then stops. How do i do that? Im also not a very good coder

From what I understand, there's no real way to do it besides giving it a 3-round clip and have it reload between each burst. Two builds from now I think you can script weapons, so it'll be a bit of a wait.

ahh, ok

Possible: Make it have a tracer round every 4 shots and make the round and invisible o lifetime null particle.

It would still fire single if you wanted it to, and you have to take into account how fast he might want the gun to fire.

It would sound like ***-***-*** as opposed to ***----*** if you kept firing. Wouldn't be a convincing delay.

Yeah, You're right, but I just thought of a different way.
Your way still sounds better.

Well, you could also make it fire an emitter that fired 3 rounds, but it would look funny if it shot them if you moved the gun in between. You could also make it sound like you shot a burst and just shoot a single round, again not exactly what you're looking for.

You can't make an emitter shoot something the direction you're aiming consistently.

If you make it the round particle, it just emits at the predetermined angle.
If you make it the round shell(casing), it emits at the firing angle, plus the predetermined angle, (ignorable if zero/undefined) but only if you're facing rightward, and the opposite direction leftward.

This is also why we can't have straight-firing accurately propelled rocket launchers.

Directionally limited turrets come to mind though; they could make use of casings' partially correct angular ejection. Or you could hold a HDF for firing in different directions, but that's a bit silly. Objects with rotational symmetry of the second order (two-fold) (they stay the same when rotated 180 degrees) would also be unaffected by the oppositional angle too, as can be seen in numgun's C3 Shield Gun.

I'm guessing it has something to do with the way data made the HDF not be upside-down when aimed leftward. He rotated some of the aspects of the HDF a full 180. Including the angle of the fired round particle and ejected round shell/casing. He later made the angle of the fired round particle unaffected by the angle of the HDF, for whatever reason. But he didn't do this for casings, there probably wasn't a reason to. So there's still this exploit in casings for modders, even though it wasn't intentionally made at all. But that's all just my guess.


understandable tl;dr
yeah but if you face left the emissions hit you

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Very nice Grif,
I'd say a 9.5

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(no, no way to do it.)

It would Fire like a shotgun though and the emitter wouldn't fire far enough

BUT thanks for thinking about it

I hope you can do something about this in either one of the new builds or in the ingame console, or maybe some REALLY good coding..

i wish there was a thread where all of Grif's flame posts were, id be the most popular thread ever..

I wish people wouldn't go blatantly off-topic. Topic seemed to do pretty well until you posted.

And by the way, It'd be the most popular thread ever."