Help modding/custom weapons

EggOfAwesome

I was following some modding tutorials and found a cool one about adding effects to weapons. It taught how to make a shotgun light things on fire, but out of curiousity wanted to try to do it with an axe. Unfortunely it seems to have got messed up. I'm not sure if the naming is wrong, but where I put "axe" was originally shotgun, in hopes of well, getting an axe that lights things on fire. This is what I put below. (In the lua folder of the source of my "mod" from LaunchPad, a.k.a in mymodname.lua

function Axe:ApplyBulletGameplayEffects(player, hitEnt, impactPoint, Direction, damage, surface, showTracer)

   if HasMixin(hitEnt, "Fire") then

       hitEnt:SetOnFire(player, self)

   end

end

Any ideas onto how to get it working?

GhoulofGSG9

It's not working because the Axe is not shooting bullets

The ApplyBulletGameplayEffects method is part of the BulletMixin which is inherited by the ClipWeapon class. And the Riftle class is a child of the ClipWeapon class.

If the previous sentence doesn't make sense to you best read up about the OOP concept (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming).
You need to know and be used to it to really work with the ns2 code or any kind of modern coding language.

But the Axe is just a simple child of the Weapon class. So declaring the given method there won't make any difference.

So how to apply "fire blade" to the axe:

Let's simple use the DamageMixin:DoDamage(damage, target, point, direction, surface, altMode, showtracer) function. ( http://ns2docs.bplaced.net/ns2docs/tables/DamageMixin/index.html )

So it's

function Axe:DoDamage(damage, target, point, direction, surface, altMode, showtracer)
	if damage > 0 then --sometimes there are hits with 0 damage don't ask why now
		if target and HasMixin(target, "Fire") then -- check if target is burnable
			if self:GetParent() and self:GetParent():isa("Player") then --self refers to the axe, parent should be the player holding the axe
				local player = self:GetParent()
				if GetAreEnemies( player, target ) then --don't hurt friendly targets
					target:SetOnFire(player,self) --let them burn
				end
			end
		end
	end
end

Here the link to the gist as the code block is making it so ugly and hard to read: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/ebc42f37261f3b6bd007

I once started a mod guide but never ever worked again at it but it might help you to sort out the basics: https://goo.gl/ipxtYQ

EggOfAwesome

Thank you so much!   
One additional question though, my rifle and pistol don't do any damage, was that my computer glitching out or did the code do that? (my computer loves to do stuff like that on occasion.)

GhoulofGSG9

EggOfAwesome said:

Thank you so much!   
One additional question though, my rifle and pistol don't do any damage, was that my computer glitching out or did the code do that? (my computer loves to do stuff like that on occasion.)

Could it be that you tested your mod pregame? I just realized i missed a check for that. Try to use cheats 1 to start the game.

Edit: The "fixed" version:

function Axe:DoDamage(damage, target, point, direction, surface, altMode, showtracer)
	if damage > 0 then --sometimes there are hits with 0 damage don't ask why now
		if target and HasMixin(target, "Fire") then -- check if target is burnable
			if self:GetParent() and self:GetParent():isa("Player") then --self refers to the axe, parent should be the player holding the axe
				local player = self:GetParent()
				if CanEntityDoDamageTo( player, target ) then --don't hurt friendly targets or while pregame etc.
					target:SetOnFire(player,self) --let them burn
				end
			end
		end
	end
end

Gist: https://gist.github.com/GhoulofGSG9/5aaa5e8ebf2d899964d9

EggOfAwesome

Thanks for the help. Yeah, I forgot it was pregame.
I'm having fun burning and axing hives and harvesters with this. I wonder what'd happen if I kill a hive in pregame...

BeigeAlert

Wow that code highlighting is... it leaves a lot to be desired.

Soul_Rider

Can we please have a fix for the CDT theme code highlighting? My eyes are popping after trying to read that :P