Spawning a bullet : Muzzle position, Player aiming vector, damage source.

[YattaYatta 10]

Hello. Im trying to do fancy things with weapons, and one of those requires me to manually spawn a bullet.

So far I can "shoot" the right bullet (same as current weapon) from from of the player, in the vectorDir direction.

What I am missing :

- Shooting the bullet from the actual muzzle of the gun. For now Im shooting it from 1 meter in front of the player, so at very close range its inaccurate.

- An actual aiming vector. vectorDir does not return a Z parameter - direction is flattened.

- Defining the "source" of the bullet. If that bullet kills an enemy, I need to know who "shot" it. Also can you call a "setDamage" function with a source parameter for the same reason ?

[edit]

As usual, no matter how much time you spent on the problem you find (part of) the solution just after asking for help on the forum.

Since im using a "fired" eventHandler, I figured out I could simply copy the provided projectile parameter's velocity and position to my new projectile.

However I still have no clue how to define the projectile's source, or a setDamage source.

Edited January 21, 2014 by YattaYatta

[iceman77 19]

Since im using a "fired" eventHandler ...

Not exactly sure what you mean by 'source', but if you're using a fired EH, there are some options.

_triggerMan = _this select 0; // Source of whom fired the shot
_weapon = _this select 1; // Source of the bullet (obviously)
_muzzle = _this select 2; // The muzzle that was fired (IE: GL Muzzle)

[YattaYatta 10]

Not exactly sure what you mean by 'source'

I mean who shot the bullet indeed.

Usually its easy to know who shot a bullet in an eventHandler, but in this case there's im creating a bullet out of the blue.

To be clear :

1- Player shoots a first (legit) bullet.

2- Scripts create a second bullet going roughly the same way as the first bullet.

damaged eventHandler will naturally report a shooter for the first bullet. However the second one has no shooter, as it was created and not actually shot by somebody. I want to know if I can assign a shooter to that extra bullet, so my eventHandler will know who "shot" it.

[iceman77 19]

setVariable and getVariable are what you're after. You could set any given unit / player to essentially "own" the bullet if you will.

[das attorney 858]

Hi Yatta,

Firstly, good work on the website - very useful.

In regard to this question, can I ask a few things?

1 - Is this SP or MP?

2 - Are you trying to fire your gun, then delete the bullet and spawn in a new projectile in it's place?

Thx

Nvm - Ninjad :)

[YattaYatta 10]

setVariable and getVariable are what you're after. You could set any given unit / player to essentially "own" the bullet if you will.

Just to make it clear, what you're suggesting is to do this ?

- GuyA shoots a projectile

- Mark the projectile with a setVariable owner GuyA

- bullet its GuyB

- check owner variable of projectile

The problem is that "damaged" event does not returns a projectile object, so you cant getvariable it.

I see there's a "hit" event too, that returns the object causing the damage, but 1) by the look of it I guess it returns the shooter - so it will not work for a spawned bullet, 2) it seems unreliable as it can be skipped if "not enough" damage is done, 3) Im not sure if it comes before or after damage management and I feel like getting information from one event to another would be quite dirty somehow.

So im still not sure what to do :P

Das Attorney :

Aww, you scratched the cheers about the website :(

Now that I think of it I should have it in signature. Ill add it now.

(And for the question : in this case im trying to spawn an extra bullet with each bullet shoot)

[tpw 2315]

Also, last time I checked, you can't setvariable a bullet.