Here's an idea that might work.
Gun fires MOPixels. MOPixels, when created, take a count of other of the same MOPixels within the immediate vicinity, attract them to itself, and wait for 100ms. If the count of the same MOPixels within the immediate vicinity is greater when the wait time is done, wait another 100ms. If not, spawn a crapload of glowy particles and hurty particles, throw them at the aim direction of the nearest Actor, and selfgib.

Uh, with the lag you are going to make, you might want to try variables injection of time charged, and iterating though a global list of tables with the actor and the particle count as a backup.
Lag is reduced to actor count lag.

Okay, I'll spill the beans.

I am going to make the ultimate bubble blower that can charge up like I said earlier.
If you hold it down for 1 second, a small bubble (TDExplosive, with sprite) appears and shoots forward at a slightly fast speed in a small explosion.
If you hold it down for 3 seconds, a medium bubble (TDExplosive, with separate, slightly larger, sprite) appears and goes forward at a medium rate and explodes in at medium strength.
If you hold it down for 5 seconds, a huge bubble (TDExplosive, with separate, larger sprite) appears and drifts forward and explodes in a huge explosion.

2 and 4 will also have varying strength, but the same sprite for the charge below them.


They will not obey gravity and will not go as fast as the other bubble guns. (I'm sure I can do this last part with .ini modding.)

I'd prolly go for something like this.
Gun shoots invisible particle. This one creates a 2 second long mosr with small sprite which is aligned to the gun's barrel (like particle accelerator's core thingy), after 2 seconds the invisible particle creates another 2 second lifetime sprite this time medium size. Then the last second that big sprite is spawned. All of this happens as long as you hold down Fire (just check in the update function of the invisible particle), if you release fire the current sprite gets removed and in place of it the explosive of the current strength gets spawned.

CrazyMLC you need to say thank you to me, I got Areku here to help jew

Why do you even want to do it with ini? Lua-ing it would just be easier.

The last part I can do in ini modding.

Before people come to kill you, it's Lua. Not LUA.
It's not an acronym. If you can't avoid typing it in all caps you're safer saying Sparkle Magic. (like me).

Oh Ok So LU.. err Sparkle Magic ™ Is needed to make the gun charge up right, like if someone made a shoop da whoop cannon (Which gives me an idea) and had it play IMA CHARGING MAH LAZOR! when ever you charged it rite?

If your going to use Lua, then you'll need to use a timer. I dunno how good you are with Lua, but if you want help,
just ask. I'm not working on anything at the moment and I would be willing to help out.

The basic structure for the Lua would look like this. Every second, some value increments and the sprite changes. Then the timer resets itself and does it again when the next second comes along.

You know, you could use parent controller tracking.

Just realized that.
Anyway, Scale works better for the sprite, just add a lua based explosion based off scale.

Uh, wouldn't it be simpler to create a small bubble, gradually increasing its size with a script like the particle accelerator's, calculate the position of another point in space based on the scale, and then, when the trigger is released, define a vector between the bubble and the point, making the bubble's velocity directly proportional to the length of the said vector? As in self.Vel.X = self.marker.Pos.X - self.Pos.X and self.Vel.Y = self.marker.Pos.Y - self.Pos.Y. I've tried that method before, and it seems to be a good way to control speeds.

Then, for the increased explosions based on the bubble's size, you could just make the script check self.Scale in the destroy function, and spawn a number of explosive particles depending on it.

Just wait a little more time, the script is almost ready!

I charged it for a short while and it crashed.
I charged it for a long while and it exploded in my face.
I would like to be able to pick up my bubble if I want.
I want it to go slower as it gets bigger.
I want it to slowly float forward, bobbing up and down.

Also I really want to have separate sprites because I would like it to be animated.

Easy. But it'll be hard to explain in words >_<.



This is just sort of a possible frame for what your trying to code. Its similar for what I did with the particle accelerator. This will increment the variable 'power' every second you hold down the trigger. You can also change the sprite every timer power is incremented. Power will determine how big the explosion is and how fast the bubble moves when the weapon is fired.

The bobbing up and down can be accomplised with sin or cos functions. There's other ways to do that as well.

But wouldn't you have to define self.owner?

Or is that automatically determined? In which case TLB needs to do some optimization.