I want to find out when a gas weapon is empty/overheated. Basically when I fire but the gun won't fire on an unlimited ammo weapon. I am not sure how it keeps track of the ammo in a gas weapon.
What I have noticed:
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When I switch it out it gradually gains while you are not holding it, and if I use my weapon trader script with it, (that puts it on the ground), it knows where it was when I dropped it, and it is still there when I pick it up again. GetWeaponAmmoClip and GetWeaponAmmoStock don't show any change while firing or empty, of course, so how does it work? I had two gas guns and each kept track of there fuel position separately. Is there an attribute of the weapon that holds this information? Something is keeping track of it and changing it while a player has it.
I tried to rewrite something that times the player while firing and while not firing,but failed. Couldn't get it to match the weapon file perfectly, so I will take a break on the math on that. How does the weapon hud keep track of it? Is this something to do with the menu file? ???
There's an ownerdraw for it(gas weapons). I can possibly look into the ownerdraw code but I won't be able to post the code.
well if it takes all that, then I will live without it. It isn't a game breaker, just wanted to play an fx on the weapon when it overheated is all. Thanks for the response though.
Edit: Maybe there is a way to check if the attackbutton is pressed but the weapon isn't firing or something? That would at lest give me something.
Last Edit: February 16, 2015, 05:00:23 pm by MakeCents
I don't see any notifies in the exe nor in script for something related to "overheat" I'll check out the ownerdraw to see if it is possible to do something about it.
Edit: Okay no it's not possible to check by script, but you could probably replicate the overheating function by hand. I'll look into that too to see if it can be replicated.
Last Edit: February 16, 2015, 05:29:49 pm by DidUknowiPwn
I don't see any notifies in the exe nor in script for something related to "overheat" I'll check out the ownerdraw to see if it is possible to do something about it.
Edit: Okay no it's not possible to check by script, but you could probably replicate the overheating function by hand. I'll look into that too to see if it can be replicated.
Thanks man. I did try to replicate it, just didn't take the time to get it perfect based off weapon file times cause it seemed like a bandade, rather than the right way. It was half working in a perfect world, lol. Was checking if firing and if had weapon and then trying to time it to match the overheat, but was failing on the math i think. Just off points of time, but it kept building. I'll post the code I was trying to use then when I get home. If it is perfect then I would use it. Don't waste too much time on it. Thanks again.
Last Edit: February 16, 2015, 05:53:46 pm by MakeCents
Just so you know the rate lerps from currentheat to currentheat + heatrate
well damn, if i can't access the currentheat then i prob won't be able to match the rate then, except for full and completely empty, which was working, it was just when I feathured it that it messed up. Well maybe close, but not easily
Last Edit: February 16, 2015, 08:28:17 pm by MakeCents
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