I want my clone to not be able to pick up or use any 2 handed devices (Assault rifles, etc.) exept his own pre-equipped weapon.
And if he has something 2 handed (Except own weapon) in his inventory, he would auto-drop it once its equipped.
He should end up being able to use/pick up his pre-equipped weapon and other one handed sidearms.

How would I do that?
If there is already an answer somewhere, please point me to it because I was unable to find anything.

for weapon in MovableMan.Items do
if weapon:IsOneHanded() == false then
if <insert proximity check of choice, there's dozens of them> < <distance desired, 40's probably good> then
weapon.GetsHitByMOs = false;
end
end
end

On the actor, in update. Should work, unless someone wants to point out an easier way to make it not pick up items.

So something like this should work?

You need to enable GetHitsByMOs.
Change this:

To this and add tabs:

if (actor.Pos.X >= self.Pos.X - 40) and (actor.Pos.X <= self.Pos.X + 40) and (actor.Pos.Y >= self.Pos.Y - 40) and (actor.Pos.Y <= self.Pos.Y + 40) then

That's bad code for two reasons.

1: you haven't defined actor. But even if you replace that with weapon (which you need to do)
2: that's going to give a badly defined rectangle.

I'd recommend using the pythagorean theorem; use math.sqrt(math.pow(weapon.pos.x - self.pos.x,2) + etc etc

SceneMan:ShortestDistance(self.Pos,weapon.Pos,true).Magnitude

Much better.

>_<
I didn't notice that...

So, I should use this?



@ mail

That one confuses me...

Mail's finding the shorttest distance between the two. Magnitude = Distance of the vector.

Mail's code is actually just about the most efficient, because then the game itself is doing the distance checking, rather than reporting variables to lua which then acts on them and returns them.

In-engine methods are virtually always the fastest.

So how do I actually use it?

Like if the magnitude is smaller then 40, the weapon isn't one handed and is not the pre-equipped weapon then make it GHBM=0, and then else is GHBM=1?

You had the right statements above, just use SceneMan:ShortestDistance(self.Pos,weapon.Pos,true).Magnitude < 40 as your distance check.

ARGH!!!
It doesn't work!



WHY MUST THIS Lua BE SO COMPLICATED!!!??!?! >___<

Because magnitude isn't a variable, it's a property. Of a vector, specifically.



Use that.

Ohhh...

There's one little, tiny, insignificant problem though... He can still pick up weapons...
What the hell can be wrong?

The code itself can't be wrong, cause I copypasted it.
I thought maybe it was because it isn't tabbed, but that didn't seem to change anything.

And I made sure I didn't forget to define the script to the actor (Like I did one time -___-;)

Curse you CC and your unfriendly-ness to me and my mod! >:C

Replace it with weapon:GibThis instead of getshitbymos. If that doesn't work, then there's something wrong with the script itself.