how would i make a weapon display a certain frame while reloading, and a different frame while loaded?

if you mean displaying a magazine as though its in the weapon, see the multitude of examples out there.
if you mean, like, adding a light or something once its loaded you're going to need to sprite the magazine to look like those things and set it to discardable = 0, like the shotgun magazine and a few others. there is no real build in way, i dont think.

i actually meant like, making a crossbow appear loaded when it's loaded and not loaded when it's not loaded. if i could do that with magazines i'd like to know how, because i do not want a shot firing and an identicle image spawning due to the magazine coming out as well.

thats why you make the magazine undiscardable. look at the bear federation RPG for a practical example.

thank-you for helping me with this.

Or you can always make the magazine null and just make the sprites frames whatever...
Am I the only one who does this?

this is what i was asking how to do.

Weapons automatically do it, frame 1(000) shows when not fired and frame 2(001) shows when fired. You just have to make two frames and make CC use 'em like always.

oh. then no, that's not what i wanted.

MLC's point was that if it's a one-shot weapon, you can simply have the first frame loaded, and the second will kick in once the round is fired, i.e. when the weapon reloads, if it's timed right.

If'n you want something like a crossbow bolt to disappear when reloading, take a look at the crossbow and bows in Melee Master Arms. They do what you want.

If i make two sprites for something, and leave it as default, the sprite changes while firing then changes back instantly after firing, but does not stay on the second frame when reloading.

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what i wanted to make, is have the top sprite be the sprite when loaded, but after firing, to have the bottom sprite be the sprite, then when done reloading, the top sprite is the sprite again.

Lua could do that, but not .ini coding (at least I don't think so).

To do that with Lua, give the gun an emitter that has BurstSize = 1 and ParticlesperMinute = 0. The particle it fires is Lua'd and finds the closest MO ( your gun). Then it detects it the gun has max ammo or not and changes the frame accordingly. The gun should also be Lua'd to look for the Lua particle on the Create function and make it if it doesn't exist so it can work in the bunker building phase.

My pulse rifles use this trick, except of changing frames, it switches weapons.

I am sad now. i don't know lua. oh well, i guess i can always make it at some other time when i've actually learned lua.

Go try this, rather than any lua hackiness.