Spring RTS Engine

rattle wrote:Another question: Is it possible to make a high trajectory weapon fire in a lower arc? If so, how?
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rattle wrote:Now I've got a question... it's like this:

I've got a unit with a burst weapon which fires twice each burst (dual rocket launcher). So the question is, is there any other function which gets called each time a weapon fires a burst shot? Both FireWeaponX and EndBurstX get only called at the end of a burst which is useless.

The only workaround I can think of is abusing RockUnit, because it's the only function which gets called for any shot fired. Though I don't know if it got called when the unit was hit by a weapon as well. I read somewhere that both RockUnit and HitByWeapon are called then...

All I want to do is distribute the two shots over two firepoints (AND spawning muzzle flashes and extra fancy stuff like exhaust smoke and fire ) without relying on scripted reload times or using two weapons and slaving the second to the first AND scripting a delay in. That's entirely possible but it's ugly. I'd rather have one manageable weapon for which I don't need to recompile the script each time I want to change the reload time.

piece base, turret, mg;

static-var restore_delay;
#define SIG_AIM1 2
#define SMOKEPIECE1 base
#define MAX_ROUNDS 2
#define RAND_AMMO rand(25,50)
#define TIME_BETWEEN_ROUNDS rand(1000,2500)
#define RELOAD_TIME 7000
#define SHOW_RELOAD_SYMBOL show reload_symbol;
#define HIDE_RELOAD_SYMBOL hide reload_symbol;



static-var ammo, rounds;
ammo = RAND_AMMO;
rounds = MAX_ROUNDS;

AimPrimary(heading, pitch)
{
signal SIG_AIM1;
set-signal-mask SIG_AIM1;
turn turret to y-axis heading speed <75>;
turn turret to x-axis (0 - pitch) speed <50>;
wait-for-turn turret around y-axis;
wait-for-turn turret around x-axis;
if (!ammo OR !rounds) return FALSE;
}
FirePrimary()
{
if (ammo) --ammo;
else
{
if (rounds) --rounds;
else
{
sleep RELOAD_TIME;
rounds = MAX_ROUNDS;
}
sleep TIME_BETWEEN_ROUNDS;
ammo = RAND_AMMO;
}
}


Create()
{
restore_delay = 2000;
hide mg;
}

RestoreAfterDelay()
{
sleep 2000;
turn turret to y-axis 0 speed <100>;

wait-for-turn turret around y-axis;
return 0;
}

SweetSpot (piecenum)
{
piecenum = base;
}

QueryPrimary (piecenum)
{
piecenum = mg;
}

AimFromPrimary (piecenum)
{
piecenum = turret;
}

AimPrimary(heading, pitch)

Archangel of Death wrote:

rattle wrote:Now I've got a question... it's like this:

I've got a unit with a burst weapon which fires twice each burst (dual rocket launcher). So the question is, is there any other function which gets called each time a weapon fires a burst shot? Both FireWeaponX and EndBurstX get only called at the end of a burst which is useless.

The only workaround I can think of is abusing RockUnit, because it's the only function which gets called for any shot fired. Though I don't know if it got called when the unit was hit by a weapon as well. I read somewhere that both RockUnit and HitByWeapon are called then...

All I want to do is distribute the two shots over two firepoints (AND spawning muzzle flashes and extra fancy stuff like exhaust smoke and fire ) without relying on scripted reload times or using two weapons and slaving the second to the first AND scripting a delay in. That's entirely possible but it's ugly. I'd rather have one manageable weapon for which I don't need to recompile the script each time I want to change the reload time.

FireWeaponX is called after the first shot of a burst. EndBurstX gets called after the last shot of a burst, but that is unimportant to what your asking. Thus FireWeaponX will switch the barrel for all shots after the first in a burst, and if you only have a two shot burst this works great, for just switching the barrel at least. To get the muzzle flash on the second shot you might try having the EndBurstX function as well.

Worth a try at least!

How do I set angles that the unit can only fire on?

2: What are the required parts of a script, only the required ones, and nano stuff?

3: Is it possible to script "cutscenes?"

Actually I never remember if in Spring it's 30 or 33 ms, but who cares?