I made a gun (using some of CaveCricket48's needler with permission) that fires bullets that stick and can be remotely detonated by pressing (F).

what I would like to do is two things, make it switch stuck rounds that are too close to the gun with duds (I've made a custom one in the ini) and, only allow around 80 rounds to be stuck and undetonated at a time (plays empty click) to reduce lag from having way too many stuck at once.

Would adding a ray to check the distance of the round create a lot of lag?

Any help you guys can offer is much appreciated.

Has refferences to needler.rte.

Oops sorry I'll fix that after work. Thanks lizard

You could create an obstacle ray just fine. Just make it skip like 5 pixels each time.

you don't need a ray to check proximity

just use sceneman:shortestdistance once every 2-3 seconds on each bullet

then have each bullet add itself to the same table you're using to explode them, and have a global manager particle that checks the count of the list, and replace + update the list

Grif do you have a mock up of what that code might look like?

I haven't reached the chapter on tables yet.

CaveCricket48 helped me out a whole bunch with the script, but if i can get these two things to work it will greatly reduce potenial lag and unintended self suicides.

*edit* sorry i haven't posted a new version of this yet, i'm at work but will likely add it sunday.

I have a tutorial here that has a quick guide on tables.

thank you CC48