[destructhor]

I am creating my own personal mod that may be released sooner or later but I am running into problems.

In trying to make Rangers/Red Guard/Rebels and eventually Quads/gattling tanks shoot inaccurately (or at least appear to) I need to make a projectile, because default they use PROJECTILE = NONE, and thus the "ScatterRadius" function doesn't work.

For test purposes I'm using the "Vietnam Glory Obscured" projectile for m60 gunners until I create my own, because they seem to have got it right, So I'm borrowing their w3d files and such until then.

I am pretty familiar with the .ini files as I've already done alot, but this still stumps me. I have no idea on how to code a new projectile into all the .ini files or whatever.


Any ideas?

[CommieDog]

You can easily create new projectiles by cloning existing ones (or copying the current projectile you're using). You might want to get rid of the W3DDrawModule code if you want the projectile to be invisible, though.

[destructhor]

OK After about 3 and a half hours of trial and error, i managed to get the projectile coded into everything and it works. Rangers/Rebels/Redguard now have weapons that shoot in a scattered formation, not perfectly straight and they leave dust clouds where the bullets land.

This is the way its supposed to look

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However, new problem (in picture)

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You can't really see, but I have the tracers of the projectile ALONG WITH these weird red/purple/blue tracers. 2 hours later I still can't figure out how to get rid of them. They don't appear alone, they appear with the regular tracers, so for 3 bullets, you get 6 tracers.

The odd thing is the code is the same as the Vietnam Glory Obscured mod shown in the first picture.

[beng]

I don't have that mod so i don't know what they did, but tracers are usually defined in the FX list that is called by the Weapon's FireFX line in weapon.ini. Look at your FireFX in weapon.ini, then look up the FX list in FXList.ini to change the tracers.

If you are using projectiles, why not just do away with tracer effects altogether? The point of tracer effects it to make it look like non-projectile weapons fire projectiles. If you use projectiles, it looks better to show the projectiles.

You can use the tank shell model or the flashbang grenade model for the projectile, just scale them down by using Scale = 0.7 or some other scale factor to make them look smaller. You can also try using the model from the Spectre howitzer shell as it looks like a tracer, you have to scale that one down a lot as it is quite big.

Also note that scatter radius is fine for anti-ground weapons but won't work for anti-air weapons.

[destructhor]

Well I got the whole thing to work perfectly, except for one thing.

The projectiles do not come from the barrel of the guns of infantry, they start at their feet and move towards the target along the ground....

[beng]

That is caused by the WeaponLaunchBone for the projectile weapon slot in the W3DModeldraw module either not being defined, or using a bone that does not exist in the model, or the bone is spelt wrong. Just see any unit that launches projectiles, like stinger soldiers, to see how it's done.

[destructhor]

Originally Posted by beng

That is caused by the WeaponLaunchBone for the projectile weapon slot in the W3DModeldraw module either not being defined, or using a bone that does not exist in the model, or the bone is spelt wrong. Just see any unit that launches projectiles, like stinger soldiers, to see how it's done.

You are right, because I looked at AmericaInfantry.ini and changed the "WeaponLaunchBone = SECONDARY Muzzle" to PRIMARY Muzzle just to see if it would work and the projectiles launched from the gun correctly. I changed it back to what it was because flashbangs use that SECONDARY Muzzle variable.

Hopefully i'll figure it out

[beng]

If you have 2 weapons, and 1 launch bone, set both to use the same launch bone, ie

WeaponLaunchBone = PRIMARY Muzzle
WeaponLaunchBone = SECONDARY Muzzle

Normally you will have all weapon slots using the same launch bone unless you have different launch bones for different guns, like for the battleship which has the primary weapon using one set of launch bones and the secondary weapon using a different set, or the Comanche which has the secondary and tertiary weapons using different bones.

Don't forget to also set the FireFXBone and Muzzle flash if you have one.