Custom Projectile (Bow)

[E_Man]

Can you give me an example line that uses "shoot because that is kind of confusing. I mainly don't get the variables of : z, angle, zangle, and ganiparams. Also I still don't know how to use setshootparams or how to call it, and setshootparams is to do damage, right?

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by E_Man

Can you give me an example line that uses "shoot because that is kind of confusing. I mainly don't get the variables of : z, angle, zangle, and ganiparams. Also I still don't know how to use setshootparams or how to call it, and setshootparams is to do damage, right?

GS2 example of the shoot command:

Originally Posted by cbk1994

PHP Code:

temp.x = player.x + (vecx(player.dir) * 1.5);
temp.y = player.y + (vecy(player.dir) * 2);
temp.z = 0;

temp.angle = (player.dir + 1) * (pi / 2);
temp.zangle = 0;
temp.power = 0;

temp.ani = "sword";
temp.aniParam = "";
shoot(x, y, z, angle, zangle, power, ani, aniParam); 


Remove the parentheses and a couple other GS2 bits and you're good to go.

[E_Man]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

GS2 example of the shoot command:

I can't use gs2 scripts since I'm trial, but I may be able to figure out how to use the general variables in this command with gs1 with your script. But what is pi, it's in both gs1 and gs2 scripts, is that 3.14 or does it mean something else?

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by E_Man

But what is pi, it's in both gs1 and gs2 scripts, is that 3.14 or does it mean something else?

Programming languages typically work in radians instead of degrees. There's 2pi radians in a circle.



Notice how the radians on the circle (they have pi attached) compare to the degrees.

So to get the angle bullets should fly at, we can do..

PHP Code:

(player.dir + 1) * (pi / 2) 


Let's say I'm facing left, which means my dir is 1.



So we can start filling in values for that expression

PHP Code:

(1 + 1) * (pi / 2) 


simplifies to..

PHP Code:

2 * (pi / 2) 


which simplifies using basic math to simply pi. If we look on that circle, we can see where the angle pi lies.



This is where our bullets will fly. Try the same thing for any direction and you'll find the angle matches up to the direction the player is facing.

[E_Man]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

Programming languages typically work in radians instead of degrees. There's 2pi radians in a circle.



Notice how the radians on the circle (they have pi attached) compare to the degrees.

So to get the angle bullets should fly at, we can do..

PHP Code:

(player.dir + 1) * (pi / 2) 


Let's say I'm facing left, which means my dir is 1.



So we can start filling in values for that expression

PHP Code:

(1 + 1) * (pi / 2) 


simplifies to..

PHP Code:

2 * (pi / 2) 


which simplifies using basic math to simply pi. If we look on that circle, we can see where the angle pi lies.



This is where our bullets will fly. Try the same thing for any direction and you'll find the angle matches up to the direction the player is facing.

Ok, I kind of get it, so if looking up, it's 1,pi/2? Also, I still need help with the damage too.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by E_Man

Ok, I kind of get it, so if looking up, it's 1,pi/2? Also, I still need help with the damage too.

Up would be pi / 2, yes.

I wouldn't know the best way to handle damage in GS1; assuming you can't use GS2 because you're a trial and have no access to Testbed, have you tried using SuperRewards to get enough gelats for a month of gold? It might take some time, but you can usually squeeze 300 gelats out of it without too much trouble.

I really hate to see someone learning such an old and horrible language (GS1) just because they're a trial.

[E_Man]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

I wouldn't know the best way to handle damage in GS1; assuming you can't use GS2 because you're a trial and have no access to Testbed, have you tried using SuperRewards to get enough gelats for a month of gold? It might take some time, but you can usually squeeze 300 gelats out of it without too much trouble.

I really hate to see someone learning such an old and horrible language (GS1) just because they're a trial.

I already used most of the easy super rewards to get gold once, and I'm uncomfortable with the other things like surveys, but even if I did get gold and go on testbed, I could only do it for a month and then I would be trial again, I wish I could still be a classic account.

[E_Man]

Programming languages typically work in radians instead of degrees. There's 2pi radians in a circle.



Notice how the radians on the circle (they have pi attached) compare to the degrees.

So to get the angle bullets should fly at, we can do..
PHP Code:
(player.dir + 1) * (pi / 2)
Let's say I'm facing left, which means my dir is 1.



So we can start filling in values for that expression

PHP Code:
(1 + 1) * (pi / 2)
simplifies to..

PHP Code:
2 * (pi / 2)
which simplifies using basic math to simply pi. If we look on that circle, we can see where the angle pi lies.



This is where our bullets will fly. Try the same thing for any direction and you'll find the angle matches up to the direction the player is facing.

Ok, now I completely understand this. Thank you for sending this. I was even able to fix your shorted script that you said earlier

Shoot inherits basic gani properties. In this case you can just set the graphics in the gani for each direction and they will be set automatically when fired. You can also simplify the script like so:

PHP Code:
if (weaponfired) {
freezeplayer 0.6;
setani shoot,woodenbow1.png;
sleep 0.2;
shoot playerx-0.8,playery+0.5,2,pi/2*playerdir,0,0,eman_woodenarrow,;
}

You just needed to do this

PHP Code:

if (weaponfired) {
  freezeplayer 0.6;
  setani shoot,woodenbow1.png;
  sleep 0.2;
  shoot playerx-0.8,playery+0.5,2,pi/2*(playerdir+1),0,0,eman_woodenarrow,;
} 


As you can see, I jst slightly changed the pi/2*playerdir to pi/2*(playerdir+1) because it was shooting 90 degrees more than it should have. But I don't think this script could work shortened because when you try shooting in different directions, the bow gani changes where the bow is coming from so you can't do playery+# and playerx+# because it changes. But just so no one forgets, I will just mention that I still need to figure out how to damage baddy npcs.