Dgun Command fire For Non TA games

[bobthedinosaur]

Can we make an alternative Dgun like command fire weapon work for non "Disintegrator" weapons, since many games do not have them?

[zwzsg]

Like the Byte's minelauncher or the Pointer's NX flag in KP, you mean?

[SeanHeron]

Thanks for the heads up Z! I'll admit I'm not familiar enough with KP to have thought of that otherwise. Good to know where I can grab stuff from - will probably rip code from the minelauncher (couldn't find the NX Flag's code at a glance).

However Bobs request was broader I think - ie have a tag to set weapons (other than the dgun) to not fire by default / fire only once for each specific attack order. I think this is still a valid request.

[bobthedinosaur]

I don't care about a new tag. it would just be nice to not reserve that feature for TA mods only. i'll take a look at your code Zwzsg, it will probably work for what i want.

[FLOZi]

used to be commandfire=1; and still is.

[SeanHeron]

Oh! Coolio . Thanks for saving us a lot of trouble Flozi, and sorry for me and Bobs shallow knowledge of the topic..

[FLOZi]

Much worse, it's an OTA tag and bob should know better.

[Pxtl]

Like the Byte's minelauncher or the Pointer's NX flag in KP, you mean?

I distinctly remember either you or KDR saying you couldn't get the d-gun behavior of "select D-gun, click target" and the weapon fires only under those conditions to work - all solutions either perma-locked the weapon or made the weapon fire like any other secondary weapon.

I take it this issue was resolved?

[bobthedinosaur]

commandfire=1; doesnt do crap. I was asking for a specific weapon button. If I tell a unit to attack any small thing it will waste a "dgun" like attack on the unit unless it has a dgun button/ hotkey designator.

i'll probably just look at KDR's code and see if that works. so dont worry about it. i was just pointing out another coddling for TA


edit: proper credits

[zwzsg]

i'll probably just look at Z's code

KDR's code. Afaik, it was a custom command with a custom button. See \LuaRules\Gadgets\specialattack.lua

[Pxtl]

i'll probably just look at Z's code

KDR's code. Afaik, it was a custom command with a custom button. See \LuaRules\Gadgets\specialattack.lua

So in other words, the actual, literal "D-Gun" command that has a default keybind associated with it is still pretty much only useful for TA, and nobody can make use of it in non-TA mods.

[FLOZi]

commandfire=1; doesnt do crap. I was asking for a specific weapon button. If I tell a unit to attack any small thing it will waste a "dgun" like attack on the unit unless it has a dgun button/ hotkey designator.

i'll probably just look at Z's code and see if that works. so dont worry about it. i was just pointing out another coddling for TA

Ah, now i see.

Having a quick grep through the code suggests canDGun for the unitdef. It's not immediately clear if that is tied to only work with DISINTEGRATOR type weapons, though (Doesn't seem to be at a glance). In any case if you want multiple dgun-type weapons then yeah, lua is the only way to go currently.

[SeanHeron]

Well - no worries. I thought it sounded too good to be true . I shouldn't have been lazy and actually tried what you were saying before replying... guess we're sorted for the moment.

The request as such is still valid though!

[imbaczek]

KP's NX pointer attack still seems to be pretty much what you want. Can't point you to a specific file but you can grep gadgets for "pointer".

[zwzsg]

KP's NX pointer attack still seems to be pretty much what you want. Can't point you to a specific file but you can grep gadgets for "pointer".

See \LuaRules\Gadgets\specialattack.lua

[KDR_11k]

I believe any commandfire weapons on a canDGun unit will be bound to the dgun button, IIRC I had that mixed on a SimBase EDIT commander that had both a regular weapon and a vlaunch missile.