shoot2()

[fowlplay4]

Originally Posted by 12171217

So why don't you manually add it into the player who shoots it's array and ignore the additional trigger? That's not hard!

I think callweapon works in GS2? There, easily done.

Never said it was hard, in fact it's just as easy to use a class and store the projectile math (angle, speed) in attrs and have it move on the clientside.

But why even bother with all that if we had a function like shoot2, I can't imagine how nice it would be just use it instead of scripted projectiles.

[12171217]

Spawning classes is a waste of bandwidth, though. Triggerclient and systems NPC ftw.

[fowlplay4]

Make it happen w/ V6 Stefan, make it happen.

[Admins]

This is mainly for emulating the default arrows with shoot()? Any ideas of handling the existing parameters differently to achieve that goal? What exactly is the problem?
(btw speed=strength)

[MrDunne]

Originally Posted by Stefan

This is mainly for emulating the default arrows with shoot()? Any ideas of handling the existing parameters differently to achieve that goal? What exactly is the problem?
(btw speed=strength)

I think this is mainly for creating realistic arrows that travel along an arc through the air. I could be mistaken though.

[fowlplay4]

Originally Posted by MrDunne

I think this is mainly for creating realistic arrows that travel along an arc through the air. I could be mistaken though.

You are, that's what shoot already does / allows you to do.

What I'm interested in is functionality to allow projectiles to ignore walls, and being able to change the speed of projectiles that use 0 strength + zangle.

[12171217]

Bullets can easily be sync'd perfecly if they have a linear path of travel and the creation time is known. I've written bullet handling system npcs in the past that use the methods I talked about previously in this thread and by no means are they CPU-hogs, and I've used them in the past on the old, old clients with no performance detriment either. Surely you guys can do the same to satisfy your needs, no?

As if we'll see a client update anytime soon, anyway. Make do with what you have.

[MrDunne]

Originally Posted by fowlplay4

You are, that's what shoot already does / allows you to do.

What I'm interested in is functionality to allow projectiles to ignore walls, and being able to change the speed of projectiles that use 0 strength + zangle.

PHP Code:

shoot2(x,y,z,angle,zangle,strength,gravity,options ,ani,aniparams); 


In regards to Dusty's post: What does the gravity parameter mean then? For shooting arrows along an arc, you have to do some math, I believe.

[Crow]

Originally Posted by MrDunne

In regards to Dusty's post: What does the gravity parameter mean then? For shooting arrows along an arc, you have to do some math, I believe.

The thing is, we already have gravity with shoot(). But we can't alter it in any way, which makes it quite unusable.

[MrDunne]

Originally Posted by Crow

The thing is, we already have gravity with shoot(). But we can't alter it in any way, which makes it quite unusable.

Ah, I get it now. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

[Tigairius]

Example of changing speed of shoot:

PHP Code:

temp.angle = getangle(vecx(player.dir), vecy(player.dir));
temp.speed = 1.5;
shoot(player.x, player.y, player.z, temp.angle, 0, temp.speed, "gani", ganiparam); 


Example of changing gravity of shoot:

PHP Code:

temp.angle = getangle(vecx(player.dir), vecy(player.dir));
temp.oldgravity = gravity;
gravity = 5;
shoot(player.x, player.y, player.z, temp.angle, 0, 1, "gani", ganiparam);
gravity = temp.oldgravity; 


[fowlplay4]

Originally Posted by Tigairius

Example of changing speed of shoot:

PHP Code:

temp.angle = getangle(vecx(player.dir), vecy(player.dir));
temp.speed = 1.5;
shoot(player.x, player.y, player.z, temp.angle, 0, temp.speed, "gani", ganiparam); 


Falls right into the ground as soon as it's shot.

[DrakilorP2P]

Originally Posted by fowlplay4

Falls right into the ground as soon as it's shot.

Not if gravity is 0.

[fowlplay4]

Originally Posted by DrakilorP2P

Not if gravity is 0.

Nifty, but now they go over walls which may or may not be what I need for every situation. Looks like I'll have to go custom or shoot2 with parameters to enable wall detection.

[Admins]

I've checked the shoot command because we want to possibly replace classic arrows with projectils on Classic iPhone. It seems we can already easily emulate them with the shoot command:
- if you want the projectile to pass walls: use speed=1, zero gravity
- if you want them to hit walls but move horizontally like classic arrows: use speed=0
You can also configure npcs to let them pass projectiles (but block players) with the npc.isblockingprojectiles = true/false variable, its best to set it on both client- and server-side (because it's not synced). There is was problem with inactive npcs ignoring it on server-side but it's fixed in the latest npcserver.