I have a custom gun with a tactical knife and I had an interesting idea to make the tactical knife have an effect on the zombie when knifed but I have no idea how to add that so that when I knife the zombies it goes through with the effect. any Ideas where I'd look to change something like that? Or just how to initiate fx for a weapon?

Knife fx in Scripting

play the fx on the knife or the zombie hit?

if it's the zombie hit, um.....

I would do something like: go into _zombiemode_spawner.gsc, then in zombie_spawn_init() at the bottom put

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self thread play_knife_damage_fx();

then in that same file or if you add it to another file, you need to specify that in the function thread but make a function something like this:

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play_knife_damage_fx()
{
	while( true )
	{
		self waittill( "damage", amount, attacker, direction_vec, point, type ); 
		if( !IsDefined( self ) )
		{
			return;
		}
		if( type == "MOD_MELEE" && self.damageweapon == "your tactical weapon name" )
		{
			PlayFXOnTag( level._effect[ "your effect name" ], self, "your fx tag" );
		}
	}
}

if you want an fx on the knife, then you would have to do this in csc like so:

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#include clientscripts\_utility; 
#include clientscripts\_fx;
#include clientscripts\_music;

init()
{
	level thread player_init();
}

player_init()
{
	waitforallclients();
	players = GetLocalPlayers();
	for( i = 0; i < players.size; i ++ )
	{
		players[i] thread play_melee_fx( i );
	}
}

play_melee_fx( localClientNum )
{
	self endon( "disconnect" );
	while( true )
	{
		while( !IsMeleeing( localClientNum ) )
		{
			wait 0.001;
		}
		currentweapon = GetCurrentWeapon( localClientNum );
		if( currentweapon == "your tactical weapon name" )
		{
			PlayViewmodelFX( localClientNum, level._effect[ "your fx name" ], "your fx tag" );
		}
		while( IsMeleeing( localClientNum ) )
		{
			wait 0.001;
		}
	}
}

and call this from your mapname.csc or wutever.

effects must be loaded in csc AND gsc if you use this in csc.

these all should work but i only made it in 2 mins so don't expect it to.

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