Spring RTS Engine

I have a mech with 2 shots. 1 is fired regular and the other is fired as an emit to replicate twin linked guns.


shot A is the emited shot.

When the mech is moving, shot A will explode on the mech if it is fired in front of the ms

the weapon def

When stationary it fires fine.

Any idea what I can do to prevent the shot from exploding on the mech?

I always wondered if you emit a weapon, how does the projectile know which direction/speed etc to go? (and where will homing missiles home to?)

Anyway, if it does not work, couldnt you use projectiles=2 or
burst=2,
burstdelay=very short
?

Burst only fires out of 1 emit point.

smoth wrote:Burst only fires out of 1 emit point.

Pretty sure you can use Query or Shot to move between points?

Nope. I tried before with the rx79 plus.
unless something has changed.

smoth wrote:Nope. I tried before with the rx79 plus.
unless something has changed.

Check out the Scalpel (nsaclash) hover in Zero-K, fires 2 rockets simultaneously from different points using 1 weapon and projectiles=2

when did this get added? I don't remember such a tag? Also will try when I get home.

smoth wrote:Burst only fires out of 1 emit point.

works by returning different emit points in QueryWeapon()

Burst also requires a delay. This is a twin linked weapon.

Example of query return script please?

http://code.google.com/p/springtutorial ... issile.lua or xta/ba for .bos version (ie arm raven)

It works if you use QueryWeapon with alternating points AND setting projectiles=2.

eric, twin linked means firing together simultaneously as one.

oh, in that case you just have to use QueryWeapon with alternating points AND setting projectiles=2

The demo unit for that feature was the bunny from Lolimod, fires twin rocket launchers in a 3 round burst (i.e. 6 projectiles in total) with each projectile launching at a different angle.

Use ShotX to cycle through your firepoints, QueryWeapon gets called by the aiming code as well.

Cannon (anything that didn't trigger another weapon)
Aka plasma. Shoots a ballistic projectile. Unlike the DGun it aims properly. Can't be emit-sfxed properly, maybe a ballistic DGun can fill that role.

Long story short, you can't emit cannon shots. Just give it another weapon and slave to 1. That will achieve the desired behavior. I agree though, I prefer to emit weapons when I can just for efficiency's sake, but with a cannon projectile you cannot to it. The projectile will explode usually the moment it is emitted (A lot of this has to do with the fact that the emitted cannon projectile gains no velocity and just falls to the ground usually (if it didn't explode outright).

So, your choices are, A: give it another weapon, slave 2 to 1, or B: use a different weapontype. Shitty.

I suggest petitioning the devs to fix cannon weapontype emits.

Forboding Angel wrote:1. That will achieve the desired behavior. I agree though, I prefer to emit weapons when I can just for efficiency's sake, but with a cannon projectile you cannot to it.

No other weapon can get high trajectory. Dealwithit.jpg.

Forboding Angel wrote:The projectile will explode usually the moment it is emitted

You didn't read the thread. it emits fine. It doesn't fall to the ground etc.

Forboding Angel wrote:(A lot of this has to do with the fact that the emitted cannon projectile gains no velocity and just falls to the ground usually (if it didn't explode outright).

maybe your weapon def was incorrect.

Forboding Angel wrote:

Cannon (anything that didn't trigger another weapon)
Aka plasma. Shoots a ballistic projectile. Unlike the DGun it aims properly. Can't be emit-sfxed properly, maybe a ballistic DGun can fill that role.

Long story short, you can't emit cannon shots.

That's outdated information. You can emit cannon shots these days.

Still, for twin-linked guns the projectiles tag is the better option. The ShotX function can cycle between firing points in a multi-projectile attack just fine. Emit-sfx makes more sense if you want to force the weapon on a different trajectory than the engine would aim at (e.g. the spread attack pattern on KP's touhou units). Linking two actual weapons on the unit only makes sense if they're not alike.

Anyway, emit-sfxing for aimed shots is not a good idea because the aim of the parts on the model is often off as the aiming function only gets called in certain intervals. It's usually too small to notice but when you use it for aiming shots it'll amplify the aiming error.

yeah, I am moving it to that kdr, I was just addressing forbs incorrect points.

I tried the code and it doesn't like fireweapon it seems to require the function shot instead.

any idea on this?

smoth wrote:I tried the code and it doesn't like fireweapon it seems to require the function shot instead.

any idea on this?

tl;dr