Single Use Weapon (Equipment)

xzodia · Post by **xzodia** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:14 am

Very simple but something that people have been asking about...

1. Get Updated Weap Plugin

###Setup The Dropper###
2. Duplicate the SMG
3. Check The "Drop When Fired" Bit (In The 2nd Bitmask From The Top)
4. Change "Button Used" To "Automated Fire"
5. Null The "FP Models" Depandancies

###Setup The Weapon###
6. Open The Weap You Desire To Be Single Use
7. Change "Rounds Per Shot" To "2"
8. Change "Age Generated Per Round" To "0.5"
9. Change The "Aged Weapon" Dependancy To The Dropper (Duplicated SMG)
10. Optional, Check The "Doesn't Count Toward Maximum" Bit

11. Test

Note: To Spawn Your Equipment, Change The Projectile Of The Weapon

Rockymods · Post by **Rockymods** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:07 am

Awsome! You could make a never ending weapon thing with this it would just be annoying to create. Say you start with a smg, then you get a rocket launcher like you said, then you get a needler, sniper rifle, never ends! Thanks for the tut I'm sure ace mods will be glad

DoorM4n · Post by **DoorM4n** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:13 am

Excellent, just what I need!

neodos · Post by **neodos** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:47 am

Great thanks to Xzodia for this tutorial and great job on fiding this, you'll be credited on 3volved!

btw, i am going to test on system link, i'll confirm if it works

DoorM4n · Post by **DoorM4n** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:04 am

NVM just found out.

HellaWack · Post by **HellaWack** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:15 am

Sorta seems like you took my idea of Aged Weapons being dropable.

neodos · Post by **neodos** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:28 am

Ok, the weapon is not switched on syslink

Yamagushi · Post by **Yamagushi** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:30 am

that it does not =(

Rockymods · Post by **Rockymods** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:39 am

It always seems strange that if someone has the exact same map, things like this don't work. *cry*

CaptainPoopface · Post by **CaptainPoopface** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:18 pm

It's not system link compatible?

Major bummer....

You tried spawning the gun as a projectile like Xzodia said?

neodos · Post by **neodos** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:31 pm

CaptainPoopface wrote:It's not system link compatible?

Major bummer....

You tried spawning the gun as a projectile like Xzodia said?

That would spawn a projectile that explod

CaptainPoopface · Post by **CaptainPoopface** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:51 pm

That would spawn a projectile that explod

I meant firing the [weap] from a gun to get it into the map, an old hack for SLC.

The rolling eyes aren't called for.

xzodia wrote:Note: To Spawn Your Equipment, Change The Projectile Of The Weapon

JacksonCougAr · Post by **JacksonCougAr** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:56 pm

A misunderstanding.

neodos · Post by **neodos** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:27 pm

CaptainPoopface wrote:
That would spawn a projectile that explod
I meant firing the [weap] from a gun to get it into the map, an old hack for SLC.

What i want to get is a weapon that shoot a projectile and is dropped not drop a weapon on the ground.

CaptainPoopface · Post by **CaptainPoopface** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:36 pm

neodos wrote: What i want to get is a weapon that shoot a projectile and is dropped not drop a weapon on the ground.

Right. I understand that. It's what I want, too. My point was, Gun A shoots Gun B as its projectile. You then pick up Gun B, which fires its own projectile and ages to the autofire dropping weapon in the method Xzodia describes. Gun A is worthless as a weapon except for its ability to spawn Gun B.

It's an old SLC spawning trick, like in the Vehicle Wars mod in the Killtrocity map pack. I think it was used to get a lot of working vehicles into the map without chunk cloning. I'm not sure if it would work for the dropping weapon, or if it was tried by the 3volved team.

Now that I think about it, I suspect the gun spawning trick would not work.

Xzodia, what do you mean by this?

Note: To Spawn Your Equipment, Change The Projectile Of The Weapon

xzodia · Post by **xzodia** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 12:28 am

HellaWack wrote:Sorta seems like you took my idea of Aged Weapons being dropable.

What do you mean your idea? I was the first person to mention aged weapons as far as i'm aware

CaptainPoopface wrote:Xzodia, what do you mean by this?
Note: To Spawn Your Equipment, Change The Projectile Of The Weapon

What I ment was if your using this to spawn "Equipment" such as a bubble sheild you change the projectile of the weapon (ie not the dropper) to your equipment thingy

OwnZ joO · Post by **OwnZ joO** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:25 am

xzodia wrote:
HellaWack wrote:Sorta seems like you took my idea of Aged Weapons being dropable.
What do you mean your idea? I was the first person to mention aged weapons as far as i'm aware

CaptainPoopface wrote:Xzodia, what do you mean by this?
Note: To Spawn Your Equipment, Change The Projectile Of The Weapon
What I ment was if your using this to spawn "Equipment" such as a bubble sheild you change the projectile of the weapon (ie not the dropper) to your equipment thingy

Hella was saying because that he mentioned a droppable gun, he was the first to think of it, and it was his idea. I've wanted to do this with a sword for a while, so this should help out.

xzodia · Post by **xzodia** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:09 am

OwnZ joO wrote:Hella was saying because that he mentioned a droppable gun, he was the first to think of it, and it was his idea. I've wanted to do this with a sword for a while, so this should help out.

No. He was talking about This Topic, I suggested aged weapons awhile before that but noone bothered to test it >_<

Edit:

xzodia On Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:02 am wrote:
Elite747 wrote:the problem with that is that the Energy Sword doesn't have battery in MP. And, I have tried aged weapon, but its giving me no effect. If it helps, the weapon I am doing this to is a rocket launcher.
who said anything about using the energy sword? im assuming the aged weapon comes into play when the weapon runs out of ammo...
Edit: just took a look at the weap plugin and i believe the "Age Generated per Round" value may come into play...however the sword doesnt use it...so hmm...try settting it to 1

http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?t=68137

turk645 · Post by **turk645** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:10 am

hopefully ill be able to follow this right and get my "special weapon" to dissapear after it has been fired once.

DoorM4n · Post by **DoorM4n** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:03 pm

Wait, how is this not SLC? All your doing is duplicating a weapon....?